The Monstrefact: The Purple People Eater
6/10/20266 min
In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the one-eyed, one-horned, flying people eater from the 1958 novelty song by Sheb Wooley...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Robert Lamb· Host0:03
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Speaker 10:27
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Robert Lamb· Host0:33
Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. In this episode of The Monster Fact, I'd like to continue our trend of discussing monsters that originate in works of music, following most recently an episode on the goo goo muck. Unsurprisingly, we turn to another classic novelty song and one that predates The Monster Mash by several years. 1958's The Purple People Eater, which along with '58's Witch Doctor, helped pave the way for even more popular novelty tracks, uh, including Monster Mash, including Goo Goo Muck, and so many others. We have American singer-songwriter Sheb Wooley to thank for the track, uh, a successful and highly prolific country and