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    label during the 1940s. Sheb Wooley was born in 1921 in Erick, Oklahoma, the third son of William C. Wooley and Ora E. Wooley. Wooley claimed to be part Cherokee...
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  • The Purple People Eater (category Sheb Wooley songs)
    "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...
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  • Football League player Sheb Wooley (1921–2003), American actor and singer Trevor Wooley (born 1964), British mathematician Wooley v. Maynard, a free speech...
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  • film to use the effect. The scream is thought to be voiced by actor Sheb Wooley. It was featured in all of the original Star Wars films. The Wilhelm...
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  • scream sound effect, which is believed to have been voiced by cast member Sheb Wooley and is used when a supporting character is attacked by an alligator....
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    of the Dead", which opens season two); later, both Scout Pete Nolan (Sheb Wooley) and even cook G. W. Wishbone (Paul Brinegar) were featured as leads...
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  • People Eater is a 1988 American science fiction comedy film based on Sheb Wooley's 1958 novelty song of the same name, written and directed by Linda Shayne...
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    episode, "Brannigan's Boots", was so similar to The Boy from Oklahoma that Sheb Wooley and Slim Pickens reprised their roles from the film. As played by Rogers...
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  • Campbell, Burl Ives, Trish Van Devere, Elaine Joyce, Frank Gorshin and Sheb Wooley. The film has developed a very small cult following among Western fans...
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    in 1958–59: David Seville's "Witch Doctor" and Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater", and Seville's "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas...
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  • Dale Barbara Hershey as Myra Fleener Dennis Hopper as Shooter Flatch Sheb Wooley as Cletus Summers Maris Valainis as Jimmy Chitwood David Neidorf as Everett...
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  • That's My Pa (category Sheb Wooley songs)
    "That's My Pa" is a 1962 single by Sheb Wooley. "That's My Pa" would be Sheb Wooley's first single to hit the country chart and was also his most successful...
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  • Ben Colder – A singer of cheesy parodies of popular country songs, Sheb Wooley had created the character before the show began and portrayed the character...
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    opened at the corner of US 66 (Roger Miller Boulevard) and Oklahoma 30 (Sheb Wooley Avenue) in 2004 in a former 1929 café and drugstore building. It closed...
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  • Luther Perkins (1928–1968), country music guitarist for Johnny Cash Sheb Wooley (1921–2003), actor and singer-songwriter List of United States cemeteries...
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  • opened at the corner of U.S. 66 (Roger Miller Boulevard) and Oklahoma 30 (Sheb Wooley Avenue) in 2004 in a former 1929 café and drugstore building. On display...
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  • Gene Vincent Marty Wilde Hank Williams Jr. Larry Williams Johnny Winter Sheb Wooley Link Wray List of country music performers List of popular music performers...
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  • Jerry Fleck 55 US Production Manager Edward Scissorhands Beetlejuice 16 Sheb Wooley 82 US Actor Hoosiers The Outlaw Josey Wales 20 Tom Busby 66 Canada Actor...
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    got the job done. The top-rated Western, with co-stars Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley, and Paul Brinegar, ran from 1959 to 1966. Fleming and Eastwood more...
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  • Chipmunks. The technique was also imitated by other recording artist such as Sheb Wooley in "The Purple People Eater", and The Big Bopper, who parodied both songs...
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  • after "Harper Valley PTA" reached its peak in success, singer-comedian Sheb Wooley, using his alter-ego Ben Colder, recorded a parody version called "Harper...
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  • People Eater" Sheb Wooley "The Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley June 16 "The Purple People Eater" June 23 "The Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley June 30 July...
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    Purple People Eater", best known in the version by Sheb Wooley. For contractual reasons, Wooley's version was never released in Scandinavia, Cryer's was...
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  • (1) Steve Winwood (2) Bill Withers (1) Wizkid (1) Stevie Wonder (10) Sheb Wooley (1)° Andy Williams reached No. 1 on two of the (then) four pre-Hot 100...
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  • soundtrack of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Oingo Boingo Riders in the Sky Sheb Wooley (who actually starred in Rawhide) Jan Rot translated the song in Dutch...
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  • Other notable MGM artists of this genre include Hank Williams Jr., Sheb Wooley, Conway Twitty, Sandy Posey, Marvin Rainwater, Arthur "Guitar Boogie"...
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  • artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and the Platters, and Sheb Wooley. The latter's "Purple People Eater" reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop...
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    live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, the Blossoms, the Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen and...
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    "It's Only Make Believe" Conway Twitty 12 "The Purple People Eater" Sheb Wooley 13 "Bird Dog" / "Devoted to You" The Everly Brothers 14 "Get a Job" The...
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  • Cassie Raymond Serra – Joe Dan Hedaya – Skyros Ellen Marchman – Wheateye Sheb Wooley – Mr. Kendrick Farber, Stephen (1984-05-13). "'IT'S AS FAR FROM WHAT...
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