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Without "The Purple People Eater" we would never have heard about that DJ from Beaumont, Texas known as "The Big Bopper".

He cut a novelty song called "The Witch Doctor Meets The Purple People Eater" for D Records in Houston, Texas. That song didn't go very far but the flip side "Chantilly Lace", well everybody heard that one.

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Without "The Purple People Eater" we would never have heard about that DJ from Beaumont, Texas known as "The Big Bopper".

Which lead, of course, to "American Pie", the song and the movie.

I have to say that I've been compiling a collection of my favorite oldies at the request of my daughter, who's getting married. Somewhere in the first ten songs I selected is Purple People Eater.