Slim Whitman

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Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr  (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013), professionally known by stage name Slim Whitman was an American country music, western music and folk music artist singer-songwriter and instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth, high, three-octave-range falsetto in a style christened as "countrypolitan".

He stated that he had sold in excess of 120 million records. In the 1950s Whitman toured with Elvis Presley as the opening act.  In the 1990s a new generation was exposed to Whitman through his songs featured in the film Mars Attacks!; his iconic "Indian Love Call" would kill the invading Martians every time the record was played.

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Indian Love Call" (first published as "The Call") is a popular song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Originally written for Mary Ellis,  the song achieved continued popularity under other artists and has been called Friml's best-remembered work.

The play takes place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and features the sonorous tune in the overture and in Act One while the love interests call to each other per a supposed Native Canadian legend about how men would call down into the valley to the girls they wished to marry.  In most (or all) versions of Rose-Marie, including the best-known movie version, the tune is reprised several times throughout the narrative.

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Rose Marie
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