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 ...