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Purple People Eater on YouTube, by Sheb Wooley. Gusto Records (1979). (2:25 minutes) " 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.
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
Vic Chesnutt, a folk singer discovered by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, recorded a very loose cover of the song for the 1992 R.E.M. tribute album Surprise Your Pig. Newfoundland folk-rockers Great Big Sea covered the song on their 1997 album Play under the title "End of the World".
Background. "The End of the World" is a sad song about the aftermath of a romantic breakup. Dee, the lyricist, said she drew on her sorrow from her father's death to set the mood for the song. Davis recorded her version with sound engineer Bill Porter on June 8, 1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd ...
The Last One (. Friends. ) " The Last One ", also known as " The One Where They Say Goodbye ", is the series finale of the American sitcom Friends. The episode serves as the seventeenth and eighteenth episode of the tenth season, and the 235th and the 236th episode overall; the episode's two parts were classified as two separate episodes.
Mah Nà Mah Nà. " Mah Nà Mah Nà " is a popular song by Italian composer Piero Umiliani. It originally appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven and Hell ( Svezia, inferno e paradiso ). It was a minor radio hit in the United States and in Britain, but became better known internationally for its use by The Muppets and on The Benny Hill Show .
Scott McKenzie singles chronology. "No, No, No, No, No". (1966) " San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) ". (1967) "Look in Your Eyes". (1967) " San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) " is an American pop song, [ 1] written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. [ 4] It was produced and released in May 1967 by ...
The Song That Doesn't End. " The Song That Doesn't End " (also referred to as " The Song That Never Ends ") is a self-referential and infinitely iterative children's song. The song appears in an album by puppeteer Shari Lewis titled Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along, released through a 1988 home video. It is a single- verse -long song, written ...