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re: Endless Sleep - The Obituary Thread
Posted on 9/19/23 at 5:54 pm to bleeng
Posted on 9/19/23 at 5:54 pm to bleeng
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quote:Apparently "The Last Farewell" was a US hit in the '70s. I remember he had Slim Whitmanesque TV commercials in the '80s. "Operators are standing by..."
Folk singer Roger Whittaker, famous for his 1969 hit song Durham Town and expert whistling, has died at the age of 87.
His other hits included The Last Farewell and New World in the Morning, and he sold nearly 50 million records around the world, his website said.
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Posted on 9/20/23 at 3:43 pm to Kafka
Oh, yeah, I remember those, too.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 7:50 pm to Kafka
quote:the record’s rise to popularity was kind of unique.
Apparently "The Last Farewell" was a US hit in the '70s.
Whitaker used to have a radio show in the UK, and used to have a feature where he would set poems submitted by listeners to music. “The Last Farewell” was such a tune, and turned out so well that Roger decided to record it in 1971, but it didn’t chart.
The wife of the PD at WSB-AM in Atlanta heard it while traveling in Canada in 1975 (four years after Whitaker recorded it) and liked it. When she got home she persuaded her husband to play it (WSB still played music in those days). He did, more than once (gotta keep the wife happy). After a few airplays the requests started coming in, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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