RIP Slim Whitman

[Leaffan]

@astorian

I remember clearly that SCTV did a spoof of the musical*** Evita***, called ***Indira. ***

It had Andrea Martin singing the role of Indira Gandhi, and Joe Flaherty as Slim Whitman, who was cast in the role of Che Guevara. He yodeled the lines “You were supposed to have bEEEEEEn, immortal. That’s all they wanted- not much to aaAAAAAAAsk fOOOOOrrrr.”

And here it is.

[Washoe]

@Leaffan

Didn’t SCTV do a “Slim Whitman Sings the Songs of Led Zeppelin” spoof or something?

At first I thought you were misremembering the immortal Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written, but you weren’t.

[Washoe]

Oops—beaten to it by gaffa, and a day previous at that. That’ll teach me to skim threads.

[Siam_Sam]

RIP, Slim.

Damn, he seemed 100 years old when I was little, which was about half his lifetime ago.

[Zebra]

Who will save when Mars Attacks?

[Gatopescado]

@Zebra

Who will save when Mars Attacks?

Dwight Yokum save.