“Purple People Eater” inspired a number of follow-ups, including “Cuban Purple People Eater” by Rene Touzet, which is essentially the same song, although the Cuban critter wears pantalones instead of short shorts and eats picadillo. He ends the song by shouting “Bacardi!”—still being made in pre-castro Cuba—instead of “Tequila!”
In “Bo Meets the Monster,” Bo Diddley recounts how a hideous Purple People Eater swept his girlfriend off into outer space—but the critter also saved Santa Claus from a Soviet Sputnik satellite in Sheb Woolley’s “Santa Meets the Purple People Eater.”
LOL..., I guess those didn’t make the Billboard Top 100... I didn’t see those, since I only got those songs... :-)