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Sheb Wooley. Shelby Fredrick Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He recorded a series of novelty songs including the 1958 hit rock and roll comedy single "The Purple People Eater" [1] and under the name Ben Colder the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2".
Purple People Eater on YouTube, by Sheb Wooley. Gusto Records (1979). (2:25 minutes) " The Purple People Eater " is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, No. 1 in Canada, [4] reached No. 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart.
In the 2000 US Census, "White" refers to "person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." [21] In the 2000 US Census, "Black or African American" refers to a "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." [21] The other three self-designated races are not labeled by color ...
Indigo children. Indigo children, according to a pseudoscientific New Age concept, [1][2][3][4] are children who are believed to possess special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities. [5] The idea is based on concepts developed in the 1970s by Nancy Ann Tappe, [6] who wrote that she had been noticing indigo children beginning ...
Red–green: 8% males, 0.5% females (Northern European descent) [ 2 ] Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. [ 2 ] The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception. Color blindness is usually an inherited problem or ...
How people respond to different color stimuli varies from person to person. In a U.S. study, blue is the top choice at 35%, followed by green (16%), purple (10%) and red (9%). [ 34 ] Blue and green may be due to a preference for certain habitats that were beneficial in the ancestral environment as explained in evolutionary aesthetics . [ 35 ]
Paul Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American from Bellingham, Washington, whose skin was a purple-blue color. [1] Karason was fair skinned and freckled until the early 1990s. His skin turned blue after he began taking a homemade colloidal silver treatment and rubbing a silver preparation on his skin in an attempt to ...
A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure or black mass) is the perception of shadow as a living species, humanoid figure, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural. [1]