![]() ![]() ![]() One of the cutest Halloween monsters is a rock and roll, one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple-people eating alien. Some of these songs you’ve certainly heard and some are lesser known that we hope to familiarize you with. Some are songs specifically written for the holiday, but others are great selections you can listen to year-around but have a great theme for the spookiest of all holidays. Every day we’re going to bring you a great song that fits right in on your Halloween playlist. That’s why we’re celebrating 31 Days of Halloween Hits here at The Word for the entire month of October. With songs like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” Halloween season is a heavy hitter when it comes to music! Granted, Halloween music has nowhere near the mega-market that Christmas music has, but it seems that quality trumps quantity in this particular situation. Rarely, if ever, do you hear anyone say what they’re looking forward to most about the season, is the music. Wooley also wrote the theme song for the long running television program ' Hee Haw'.As we welcome October with its cool breezes, and - now socially distanced - festivities, we often think of scary movies, pumpkin patches and killers in masks. 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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