Sheb Wooley, who menaced Gary Cooper in “High ... of the biggest novelty recording hits of the 1950s with “The Purple People Eater,” has died. He was 82. Wooley, who battled leukemia for ...

Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like “High Noon” who also recorded the pop novelty song “The Purple People Eater,” died yesterday (Sept. 16) in Nashville. He was 82.

Written by Sheb Wooley, who was also an actor in the ... 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 ...

In 1958 a schoolboy told the film actor and songwriter Sheb Wooley a joke: "What has one eye, one horn, is purple, flies and eats people?" The answer was "A purple people eater" and, even though ...

A friend of Sheb Wooley's had told him that his young son told him of that expression he had heard in school. Wooley thought it was a great idea for a song and "Purple People Eater" was born.

AP Photo NY125 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82. Wooley suffered from ...

Oklahoma native Sheb Wooley, who played Pete Nolan in ... Wooley’s most famous song is the 1958 novelty smash “The Purple People Eater” and his motion picture work included “High ...

Sheb Wooley, veteran actor in Westerns like “High Noon” who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty “Purple People Eater,” died Tuesday Sept. 16 at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., where he was ...