Sheb Wooley

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Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American actor and singer best known for his 1958 hit "The Purple People Eater." In the film High Noon, Ben Miller, Frank Miller's brother, appeared in The Outlaw Josey Wales; and he appeared as scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide.

In addition, Wooley released a number of novelty songs under the name Ben Colder, including a top-country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 5". 2" is the equivalent of "twilight" in the United States. Wooley is also known as the voice actor whose created the Wilhelm scream sound effect.

Early life

Sheb Wooley, a third son of William C. Wooley and Ora E. Wooley, was born in 1921 in Erick, Oklahoma. Logan and Hubert, as well as William, his younger brother. Sheb's father was only identified as a "Farmer," according to federal census results from 1930 and 1940, although the family's livestock holdings did not include horses, for Sheb's sake, he became a working cowboy and later a professional rodeo rider.

Wooley married for the first time in 1940, marrying Melva Miller, a cousin of Roger Miller who would later be a good song writer and actor himself. When Wooley lived in Oklahoma, he became friends with Miller. He taught the boy how to play guitar chords and bought him his first fiddle.

Wooley tried to enlist in the military during World War II, but was unable due to his numerous rodeo injuries. Rather, he worked in the oil industry and as a welder in the early 1940s. He moved from Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked as a country-western musician and toured for three years with a band in the South and Southwest. Edna Talbott Bunt, a young widow with an infant son named Gary, married in Fort Worth for the second time. In 1950, the three of them left Texas and moved to Hollywood, where Wooley hoped to make a name for himself as an actor or singer in film or in the rapidly expanding medium of television.

Personal life

Wooley has been married five times. Melva Miller, his first wife, was married in 1940. Edna Talbott Bunt married in Fort Worth, Texas, six years later. Beverly Irene Addington was his third wife. Chrystie Lynn, He and Beverly lived together for 19 years and adopted one child. In 1985, then married Deanna Grughlin and then Linda Dotson, who already had a daughter, Shauna.

In 1996, Wooley was diagnosed with leukaemia, causing him to withdraw from public performances in 1999. He died on September 16, 2003 at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, after seven years of fighting the disease. He was entombed in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Tennessee, in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

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Music career

At the age of 15, with a talent for music, Wooley formed a band called the "Plainview Melody Boys", that periodically performed on radio at station KASA in Elk City, Oklahoma. He started his recording career in 1945. His music encompassed Western swing, country, hillbilly, rock and roll, pop and novelty songs. At the start of the 1950s, Wooley began fusing Western swing with rhythm and blues, but later in his career his music would shift to the more commercial Nashville sound.

In 1958, Wooley earned considerable fame with his hit rock and roll comedy single, "The Purple People Eater", utilizing tape manipulation inspired by the David Seville single "Witch Doctor". In the United Kingdom, he enjoyed a minor hit with the comedy single "Luke the Spook" on the flip side of "My Only Treasure", a ballad in the country and western tradition. Wooley also had a string of country hits, with his "That's My Pa" reaching No. 1 of Billboard's Hot C&W Sides chart in March 1962. That same year, Wooley intended to record the song "Don't Go Near The Indians", but he was delayed by an acting job. Meanwhile, Rex Allen recorded the song, and it was a hit. Wooley, however, would do the sequel to the song, "Don't Go Near the Eskimos", about a boy in Alaska named Ben Colder (had never "been colder"). This sequel was so successful that Wooley continued using the name Ben Colder, with one of his later recordings being "Shaky Breaky Car" (which parodied the song "Achy Breaky Heart"). In December 1963, his single "Hootenanny Hoot" became a top-10 hit in Australia; and in 1967 his song "The Love-in" (1967) was recognized as an acerbic commentary on the 1960s' counterculture.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wooley became a regular on the television series Hee Haw and wrote the theme song for that long-running series. On Hee Haw he often appeared as the character Ben Colder, playing him as a drunken country songwriter. Outside of Hee Haw, Wooley released music and performed as Ben Colder, although he would still sing under his own name as well. Wooley continued to tour internationally and make personal concert appearances until his death in 2003. Wooley recorded his last written song just four days before he died.

Acting career

Wooley's work in syndicated TV series included appearances on The Range Rider, portraying outlaw Jim Younger on Stories of the Century (1954), and five appearances on The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-1955).

He appeared in The Lone Ranger episodes “Stage to Estacado” (1953); “Wake of War" (1953); "Message to Fort Apache" (1954), and "Wanted: The Lone Ranger" (1955). He portrayed Bill Bronson on The Cisco Kid, Harry Runyon in "The Unmasking" on My Friend Flicka, and Shev Jones in "The Iron Trail" on Cheyenne. He appeared twice on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

Wooley's big break professionally came when he was cast as the drover Pete Nolan on Rawhide (1959–1966). Wooley also wrote and directed some of the episodes.

Wooley appeared in dozens of Western films from the 1950s through the 1990s. He was in Rocky Mountain (1950), and he portrayed outlaw Ben Miller in High Noon (1952) and Baxter in Terror in a Texas Town (1958).

He also acted in major films, including Giant, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Silverado, and in Hoosiers.

Sheb Wooley is also credited as the voice actor for the Wilhelm scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for Distant Drums in which he had an acting role. This was later confirmed by his widow Linda Dotson. The stock recording of the distinctive scream has been used by sound-effects teams in over 200 films.

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