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"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, No. 1 in Canada, [4] reached No. 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart.
Purple People Eater in the 1958 novelty song of the same name Sgt. Psyclopps, the one-eyed guitarist for the costumed comedy punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads "Cyclops", a song from Portrait of an American Family by Marilyn Manson
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One eternal question about the song is caused by an ambiguity in the English language: is the eponymous creature a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple creature that eats people, a creature that eats one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people, or somewhere in between? The lyrics clarify matters somewhat: the creature is described as having one ...
The most famous position group in Vikings history, the Purple People Eaters, includes two members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Alan Page and Carl Eller) ...
Shelby Fredrick Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs including the 1958 hit rock and roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater" [1] and under the name Ben Colder the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2".
Purple People Eater; Rockin' with Judy Jetson; Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School; Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf; Willy the Sparrow; Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears; 1989. The Adventures of Chatran; All Dogs Go to Heaven; Asterix and the Big Fight; Babar: The Movie; The BFG; Cheetah; Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan ...
Polyphemus (/ ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ f iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος, romanized: Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polypʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.