bringing in even more novelty songs onto the hallowed Billboard list. 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 ...

Well, this monster is one eyed and has a horn, but he also loves rock and roll! Hello, my name is Kanen Breen. I'm going to sing Purple People Eater. This is one of the first songs I ever learned ...

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 ...

But it was with a novelty pop song ... Eater and took it to No 1 in the American charts in 1958, selling three million copies. The annoyingly catchy ditty about a ''one-eyed, one-horned, flying ...

The song had people across the country singing: ``It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.'' In a 1982 Associated Press interview, Wooley recalled the era. ``The space age was ...