![]() ![]() Purple People Eater, what's your line?Īnd he said, "Eatin' purple people and it sure is fine" ** see? George Pope from Vancouver BcWhy is it confusing? The lyrics clearly say:.Incidentally, we also know that it isn't a one-eyed creature who eats "one-horned flying purple people," because the lyrics also have the creature "playing rock 'n' roll music through the horn in his head," and also it is the creature, itself, who flies because the lyrics say it "came down to Earth and lit in a tree." It's a natural impression to get considering the hail of adjectives. Yet whenever anyone is asked to depict the figure, they invariably make the creature itself purple, suggesting that it will eat people of any old color. The creature's full description is "a one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater," but the lyrics make it clear that this is a creature who eats purple people. The song is notable for a confused impression people tend to get from it, which may be intentional. It's also unusually long-lived, popping up again and again in cartoons, TV commercials, YouTube videos, and film soundtracks. It's one of the few rare cases where a pure novelty made it to #1 on the charts, for one thing. Wooley also wrote the theme song for the long running television program ' Hee Haw'."The Purple People Eater" is a song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which is the novelty song to end all novelty songs. Bagdasarian has even more success in the future with the same technique, creating and recording songs by an imaginary group ' Alvin and the Chipmunks'. This technique was taken from an earlier 1958 song "The Witch Doctor" by Ross Bagdasarian. In the song, the "voice" of the Purple People Eater is a normal singing voice that was sped up on a tape recorder to be re-recorded. The song caught the imagination of radio listeners, who drew pictures of the "Purple People Eater" and sent them in to radio stations as part of local promotions. Miller grew up to have some success as a recording star as well.Įmbarking on his own recording career, Wooley wrote and recorded "The Purple People Eater", which tells the story of a strange looking creature from space, who comes to Earth because he wants to be in a rock and roll band. In the 1940s, Wooley took an interest in his wife's young cousin, Roger Miller, and taught him guitar. The song was written by Shelby "Sheb" Wooley, a character actor that appeared in many famous movies of the Western genre, as well as having a recurring role on the television series "Rawhide" which ran on CBS Television from 1959 - 1965. a tool that measures the sales of records. It was very popular and reached number one on the Billboard Charts. The Purple People Eater is a novelty song that was released and heard on the radio in 1958. Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in He was blowing it out, a'really knockin' em dead (purple people?).Īnd then he went on his way, and then what do Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple peopleeater. (sing aboop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom). It was a crazy little ditty with a swingin' tune He started to rock, really rockin' around Purple people eater (we wear short shorts)Īnd then he swung from the tree and lit on the Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flying purple I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band. He said it's eatin' purple people and it sure is fineīut that's not the reason that I came to land One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater It was a one-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater Well he came down to earth and lit in a tree (one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)Ī one-eyed one-horned, flyin' puple people eater It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater. It looks like a purple people eater to me. I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee" Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky ![]()
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