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"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, No. 1 in Canada, [4] reached No. 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart.
The song got its own Disney Channel film in 1988 with Purple People Eater, in which a young boy plays the song and accidentally summons the creature itself, who then befriends him on an adventure.
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From his 1946 recorded debut “Oklahoma Honky-Tonky Gal” up to “The Purple People Eater,” the public primarily knew Wooley for his cowboy songs and hillbilly tunes. He appeared in Western films like 1950’s Rocky Mountain and 1952’s High Noon and TV series like The Lone Ranger. The classic “Wilhelm scream” – the immortal “Aaaagh!” used in films from ...
Wooley made “The Purple People Eater”’s alien voice and saxophone solo (played through a horn in his head!) squeaky and high-pitched by recording a normal voice and sax solo and later speeding up the tape. Under his stage name David Seville, songwriter Ross Bagdasarian first used this technique on his 1958 novelty hit “Witch Doctor,” which spawned ...
“Purple People Eater” was released in May 1958, and by the week of June 2, 1958, the song hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, where it remained for six weeks. On July 27, Wooley performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show. That year, Judy Garland covered it, adding her own movie-monster-inspired intro: “I was a teenage werewolf / I was a 50-foot woman / And other u...
Aug 18, 2023 · Written by Sheb Wooley, who was also an actor in the hit sports movie Hoosiers, playing an assistant coach, the song was released in 1958 and it quickly hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard pop...
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