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You know, It's Friday, October 7th, 2020, I'm Jackson Bird today.

What the heck is a flying purple people eater?

And why did the song about one stick around for so long?

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Eight years later, we've got a look at just how big a difference it made.

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Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

This morning, I was working on a playlist I've been curating of vintage Halloween music

when I stumbled on a popular song that I miraculously haven't heard in many years. And it's one that I heard so much at every

childhood Halloween event that honestly I probably could have gone the rest of my life without hearing it again.

But emerging as it did from some far-off ether of my memory, I decided to hit play and

as I listened, I began to wonder, where the heck did this

song come from? What does it even mean? The song, Sheb Woolie's 1958, The Purple People

Eater. You surely know it. The chorus roughly goes, it was a one-eyed, one horn flying purple people

eater. And throughout the rest of the song, we find out that this people-eating creature descended

from out of the sky, claims to eat purple people, but refuses to eat the singer because he's too

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