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At its core, “The Purple People Eater” is like a comic book set to music. It’s about an alien with one eye and one horn coming down to Earth. Well I saw the thing comin’ out of the sky It ...

Sheb Wooley, who menaced Gary Cooper in “High Noon,” played the trail scout on TV’s “Rawhide” and scored one of the biggest novelty recording hits of the 1950s with “The Purple People ...

Although his MGM single "Purple People Eater" did not make the country charts, it was pop music's No. 1 tune the week of June 9th, 1959. Shelby Wooley died September 16th, 2003.

The Purple People Eater,? about an unidentified flying object, sold 3 million copies in 1958 as a No. 1 pop record.The song had people across the country singing:?It was a one-eyed, one-horned ...

The annoyingly catchy ditty about a ''one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater'' was also a British hit and was widely copied by other singers, including Ray Stevens. Wooley, who has died ...

Big fan of scifi/fantasy and crime dramas. Drive my family nuts, actually.