Slim Whitman
Christmas with Slim Whitman

1980 Epic/CBS Inc.
JEA 36847
Dolby®

Program One
Away in a Manger · It Came Upon a Midnight Clear · Silent Night, Holy Night (part I)

Program Two
Silent Night, Holy Night (part 2) · Christmas · White Christmas

Program Three
Let there be Peace on Earth (Let it Begin with Me) · Where is the Christ in Christmas? · The First Noel (part 1)

Program Four
The First Noel (part 2) · Sleep my Child · We Three Kings

Anyone who grew up in the 70's surely remembers those hilarious Slim Whitman TV commercials...as kids we had never heard of Slim Whitman, but here was this yodeling cowboy who claimed to have sold more records than anyone in the world! According to Slim Whitman Collector's International he "has sold 70,000,000 records world wide and has wall to wall gold, platinum and double platinum records. His television marketed LP "All My Best" sold 4,000,000 units which is a TV marketing record. Slim is noted to be one of the world's greatest yodelers and has a range of over 3 octaves." That's so weird, because in all my years of collecting, I've never met one person who admits to owning a Slim Whitman album!

On this cart, Slim warbles his way through a mostly spiritual set of Xmas classics, although on Program 2 he dips into some secular standards like "White Christmas." When I first played this tape, I couldn't tell whether it was the tape dragging or Slim's singing, but I finally decided that there was, in fact, nothing wrong with the tape...

Slim most recently gained national attention in Tim Burton's sci-fi comedy remake of  Mars Attacks. Slim's rendition of  "Indian Love Song" was found to be the only weapon that would destroy the alien invaders. Playing this song in the presence of aliens caused their heads to explode!

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