Sheb Wooley, who menaced Gary Cooper in "High Noon," played the trail scout on TV's "Rawhide" and scored one of the biggest novelty recording hits of the 1950s with "The Purple People Eater," has ...

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like ?High Noon? who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty ?Purple People Eater,? has died, his wife said. He was 82.Wooley ...

Wooley thought it was a great idea for a song and "Purple People Eater" was born. Wooley moved to Nashville from his family's Oklahoma farm and was signed to MGM Records in the late 1940's.

AP Photo NY125 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, ...

Sheb Wooley, veteran actor in Westerns like “High Noon” who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty “Purple People Eater,” died Tuesday Sept. 16 at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., where he was ...

Performer Sheb Wooley died Tuesday in Nashville, according to a publicist’s statement. He had leukemia. Wooley was 82. Known to TV and film viewers as an original cast member of “Hee Haw” and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like ``High Noon'' who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty ``Purple People Eater,'' has died, his wife said. He was 82.

Since then, Wooley has recrded the song serveral times, including “The Purple People Eater #2” in 1967 for MGM, which is credited to his alter ego Ben Colder, and again in 1979 as “Purple ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82. Wooley suffered from ...