Being a one-hit wonder is a little like being a famous assassin – you are known forever for one act. In 1958, Sheb Wooley, who died on September 16, 2003, was an actor and moderately successful country and western singer closing in on 40. He had played one of the heavies in High Noon, had a small part in Giant, and had appeared in a few dozen other movies and TV shows of a western bent. (Though it has never been confirmed, and wouldn’t have any significance for decades, he is also believed to have been the voice actor behind the original “Wilhelm Scream.”)
And then came “Purple People Eater.”
