Another novelty song that lends itself to the Halloween season is "The Purple People Eater", recorded in 1958 by Sheb Wooley. Hey, it was the 1950s after all with the Red Scare, Sputnick, UFOs, the Blob.... you get the picture! Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe we would find people up there (in space). Wooley, who was best known for his role as scout Pete Nolan on the hit TV series Rawhide, got the idea for his hit song, Purple People Eater, when a friend of his mentioned that his young son came home from elementary school with a joke he had heard: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?- A one-eyed, one-horned flying people eater!"
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