and songs by the Chipmunks, “The Purple People Eater” was part of a craze in the 1950s for novelty rock songs. These were songs that used the sounds and tropes of rock and roll but were less ...

Hello, my name is Kanen Breen. I'm going to sing Purple People Eater. This is one of the first songs I ever learned in primary school, and it's always been one of my favourite songs because of all ...

In my mind, Prince would forever be the purple people-eater of music. I had friends who knew and grew up with him in Minneapolis. One of whom would serve as one of his attorneys and worked at ...

Sputnik-era pop song that became his biggest hit. “The Purple People Eater,” with lyrics that included “It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater,” spent six weeks at No. 1 ...

The answer was "A purple people eater" and, even though the riddle was as unfunny then as it is now, Wooley wrote a song about it. His recording of "Purple People Eater" topped the US charts for ...