{"id":636,"date":"2013-06-19T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/06\/19\/slim-whitman-musician-featured-in-mars-attacks-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:46:00","slug":"slim-whitman-musician-featured-in-mars-attacks-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/06\/19\/slim-whitman-musician-featured-in-mars-attacks-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Slim Whitman, musician featured in Mars Attacks!, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12228382\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-IDJi9EyOlLU\/UcH7gPayHqI\/AAAAAAAAApY\/VcZws7J4QME\/s200\/Slim+Whitman+zw.jpg\" width=\"143\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a sad movie trivia obituary. Slim Whitman, renowned folk yodeler, died today at age 89. Though not exactly a beloved or legendary musician, Slim Whitman has a small place in film lore. In the climactic scene of Tim Burton&#8217;s 1996 movie <i>Mars Attacks!<\/i> (DVD 4555), Whitman&#8217;s &#8220;Indian Love Call&#8221; is used by the military as the ultimate weapon to defeat the Martian invaders.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s a silly legacy for a singer with a career spanning eight decades, especially considering the movie isn&#8217;t that flattering towards Whitman&#8217;s yodeling. But if there&#8217;s a way he&#8217;ll be remembered decades from now when yodeling is even more out of style, it&#8217;s through <i>Mars Attacks!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sad movie trivia obituary. Slim Whitman, renowned folk yodeler, died today at age 89. Though not exactly a beloved or legendary musician, Slim Whitman has a small place in film lore. In the climactic scene of Tim Burton&#8217;s 1996 movie Mars Attacks! (DVD 4555), Whitman&#8217;s &#8220;Indian Love Call&#8221; is used by the military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}