"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached number one on the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, number one in Canada, number 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart. == Composition == The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's, fellow songwriter Don Robertson: What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?
"The Purple People Eater" is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached number one on the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, number one in Canada, number 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart. == Composition == The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's, fellow songwriter Don Robertson: What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?
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