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.

Wooley also co-starred along with Gene Hackman in the movie Hoosiers.

In the 1940s Wooley took an interest in his wife's young cousin, Roger Miller ( who also grew up in Erick, Oklahoma ), teaching him to play guitar chords, and purchasing him a fiddle.

Wooley also performed using his own name as well.

The Raiders also expanded to include drummer Omar Martinez and keyboardist Bob Wooley.

Along with Guest, the film stars Catherine O ' Hara and Fred Willard as Ron and Sheila Albertson, a pair of married travel agents ( yet have never traveled outside of Blaine ) who are also regular amateur performers, and give their companions a little too much information at a restaurant dinner ; Parker Posey as the perpetual Dairy Queen employee Libby Mae Brown ; Bob Balaban as Lloyd Miller, the increasingly frustrated musical director who actually possesses some talent ; Lewis Arquette as Clifford Wooley, a " long time Blaineian " and retired taxidermist who is Red, White and Blaines bean-loving narrator ; Matt Keeslar as the handsome and oblivious mechanic Johnny Savage, who Corky goes out of his way to get into the play ; and Eugene Levy as Dr. Alan Pearl, a tragically square dentist determined to discover his inner entertainer.

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.

It included the return of long-time and founding host Jim Waley, former Nine Network host and former co-host Ray Martin, current financial commentator Laurie Oakes, and appearances by former reporters Charles Wooley ( from 60 Minutes, Ross Greenwood ( also a former co-host ) and Jennifer Byrne ( wife of ABC TV's Andrew Denton ).

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

Wooley married his manager, Linda Dotson, and had two daughters named Christie and Shauna.

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.

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.

Subsequent Daniels pop hits included " In America " (# 11 in 1980 ), " The Legend of Wooley Swamp " (# 31 in 1980 ), and " Still in Saigon " (# 22 in 1982 ).

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

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.

* Captain Richard W. Wooley.

Sheb Wooley, one of the original cast members, wrote the show's theme song.

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.

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

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

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ".

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.

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

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.

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.

*" Inner City Sound ", Clinton Walker ( Wild & Wooley, 1981 ; revised and expanded edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2005 )

Davis Wooley: Vocals & Antiques

Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer ( Veronica Lake ) and her father Daniel ( Cecil Kellaway ), are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley ( Fredric March ) and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits.

They discover Wallace Wooley ( March again ), living nearby and running for governor, on the eve of marrying the ambitious and spoiled Estelle Masterson ( Susan Hayward ), whose father ( Robert Warwick ) just happens to be Wooley's chief political backer.

* Fredric March as Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel and Wallace Wooley