Sheb Wooley, veteran actor in Westerns like “High Noon” who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty “Purple People Eater,” died Tuesday Sept. 16 at a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., where he was fighting ...

This week in 1963: 100,000 Japanese protested the visit of U.S. nuclear subs; Alabama Gov. George Wallace called state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration; public schools began ...

Performer Sheb Wooley died Tuesday in Nashville, according to a publicist’s statement. He had leukemia. Wooley was 82. Known to TV and film viewers as an original cast member of “Hee Haw” and ...

AP Photo NY125 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82. Wooley ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sheb Wooley, a veteran actor in westerns like "High Noon" who also recorded the No. 1 pop ditty "Purple People Eater," has died, his wife said. He was 82. Wooley suffered from ...

Let’s take a walk back into the past. Let’s go back seven-plus decades and visit the world of the 1950s. It was a time when rock and roll was just getting going. When commercial music was just finding ...