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With Sheb Wooley, The Champs, Link Wray and his Ray Men, Frankie Avalon, The Kalin Twins, and Dicky Doo & The Don ' ts, Jan & Arnie were a featured act on the Summer Dance Party that toured the US East Coast, including Pennyslvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in July 1958.

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a 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 the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

** Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer ( Flying Purple People Eater ) ( died 2003 )

The film co-stars Barbara Hershey and Sheb Wooley, and features Dennis Hopper as the basketball-loving town drunkard.

* Sheb Wooley as Cletus

* Sheb Wooley as Travis Cobb

Apparently voiced by actor and singer Sheb Wooley, the sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character is shot with an arrow.

Research by Burtt suggests that Sheb Wooley, best known for his novelty song " The Purple People Eater " in 1958 and as scout Pete Nolan on the television series Rawhide, is likely to have been the voice actor who originally performed the scream.

While Ebsen shared screen time with Sheb Wooley and Paul Brinegar in the earlier Rawhide episode, he would act alongside Clint Eastwood in the second.

The opening sequence is similar to the opening High Noon, in which three bad guys ( Lee Van Cleef, Sheb Wooley and Robert J. Wilke ) wait at a station for the arrival of their gang leader ( also named Frank, played by Ian MacDonald ) on the noon train.

Shelby F. " Sheb " Wooley ( April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003 ) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song " The Purple People Eater ".

Other notable MGM artists of this genre include Hank Williams, Jr., Sheb Wooley, Conway Twitty, Sandy Posey, Mel Tillis, Marie Osmond, Jim Stafford and C. W.

* Sheb Wooley

* Sheb Wooley ( 1921 – 2003 ), actor and singer-songwriter

Ray Stevens had somewhat better luck using similar speed-varying techniques on some of his novelty records, particularly his " Bridget the Midget " song from 1970 which hit the Top-5 in the United Kingdom in early 1971, as did Sheb Wooley with his " Purple People Eater " single in the late 1950s.

* TCM Remembers 2003: Karen Morley, Penny Singleton, Donald O ' Connor, David Hemmings, Art Carney, screenwriter David Newman, cinematographer Conrad Hall, director George Roy Hill, director Leni Riefenstahl, Kenneth Tobey, John Ritter, director Norman Panama, composer Michael Kamen, Martha Scott, Hume Cronyn, Buddy Hackett, Johnny Cash, Hope Lange, Richard Crenna, Sheb Wooley, Jack Elam, Gregory Hines, screenwriter George Axelrod, screenwriter Peter Stone, producer Philip Yordan, director Elia Kazan, Jeanne Crain, Horst Buchholz, Wendy Hiller, Bob Hope, screenwriter Daniel Taradash, Buddy Ebsen, director John Schlesinger, Robert Stack, Charles Bronson, Gregory Peck and Katharine Hepburn.

A typical hour broadcast on KBRD might contain music by: Artie Shaw, Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party, Bessie Smith, Boots Randolph, Clicquot Club Eskimos, Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers, Bing Crosby, the Harmonicats, Sheb Wooley, Marty Robbins, Jelly Roll Morton, Nat King Cole, the Korn Kobblers, George Formby, Nana Mouskouri, Perry Como, Merle Travis, Louis Armstrong and the ever popular Hoosier Hot Shots.

" Purple People Eater " is a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley, that reached # 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958.

The Sheb Wooley version crossed to the Billboard R & B listings, and while it did not make Billboard's country chart, it reached # 4 on the Cashbox country listing.

Category: Sheb Wooley songs

Early USA examples include Stan Freberg, who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose " Purple People Eater " reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1958 and stayed there 6 weeks.

In 1954, the actor Sheb Wooley played Younger in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century.

* Sheb Wooley as Cavalry Sergeant

There are also two allusions dating from an earlier time, one by Hiyya, a Babylonian living in the land of Israel Talmud Berakhot 5a, and the other by Adda ben Ahaba, one of Rab's earlier pupils 6b ; Jerusalem Talmud Sheb.

He considered friendly intercourse with these semi-Jews as desirable on political as well as on religious grounds, and he permitted — in opposition to tradition — not only eating their bread ( Sheb.

** Sheb .— Shebuot, a tractate in Nezikin.

Among those printed " Toledot Adam ", a Hebrew letter-writer printed in 1736 ; and in 1742 the responsa " Sheb Ya ' aḳob ", the three Babot of the Jerusalem Talmud, and the second part of the " Pene Yehoshua '", the third part appearing in 1756.

Wooley played the uncredited role of Private Jessup in Distant Drums, and was one of the few actors assembled for the recording of additional vocal elements for the film.

In December, Macquarie severed ties with Charles Wooley, and was one of a handful of regional stations to take up a feed of Ray Hadley's 2GB radio show, commencing January 27.

It was at one of these that Steve Wooley, co-owner of Palace Films, and director Julien Temple offered Patsy Kensit the role of ' Crepe Suzette ' in their 1986 film, Absolute Beginners.

According to Charles Schwartz, writing in the biography Cole Porter, the musical's book by Herbert Fields " had a lot to do with capturing the frothy Gallic essence implicit in the title ..." and he also noted the " near-perfect cast " and " sure-handed direction " of Monty Wooley.

The character was used as the basis for a feature film in 1988, with a cast including Neil Patrick Harris, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Thora Birch, Little Richard, Chubby Checker and Wooley himself.

The series CloudBread in which she is a cast member as Wooley, Ruiz, Grandma and Teacher Ellie was nominated for Best Children's Programming in 2011 for an Annie Award.

Past members include actor Essie Davis, Charles Wooley from the Australian 60 Minutes, journalist Helene Chung Martin, and theatre director Roger Hodgman.

Wooley wrote the theme song for the long-running television show Hee Haw.

In the late 1950s, Wooley embarked on a recording career, with the song that made him famous, the " Purple People Eater ".

Wooley had intended to record the song " Don't Go Near The Indians ", but he was delayed by an acting job.

The name " Lucius Clay " features in the song " The Legend of Wooley Swamp " by the Charlie Daniels Band.

The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's ; Wooley finished composing it within an hour.

* Captain Richard W. Wooley.

British Combined Operations veteran LCDR Wooley, of the Royal Navy, was placed in charge of the OSS Maritime Unit in June 1943.

Brenda Wooley: An aging pop-star who is still popular in the outer Solar System, and Keppler's wife.

And now the best part ... in his research for the new book on The Cain's Ballroom, author, music historian, and Western swing expert John Wooley has discovered that Danny Cain ( he had dropped the last " e " by the time Kwai Chang arrived in America ) had settled in Skedee, Oklahoma, and was what we would think of now as an " old time fiddler " playing jigs and dance tunes popular at the time.

* Wooley, J. T, and Peters, Gerhard, " The American Presidency ", December 1, 1978 Invitational White House Interview of President Jimmy Carter by Eldora Nuzum about the Appalachian Regional Commission, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1999-2009.

* Wooley v. Maynard

In 1995, a national tour starred the Pointer Sisters, Eugene Barry-Hill, and Michael-Leon Wooley.

Wooley performed additional vocal elements, including the screams for a man being bitten by an alligator.

Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma, and was raised on a farm.

Wooley tried to enlist during World War II, but was turned down for military service because of his rodeo injuries.

Wooley appeared in dozens of western films from the 1950s through 1970s, most notably High Noon.

Wooley guest starred as Harry Runyon in the episode " The Unmasking " of the CBS western My Friend Flicka.