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SHEB WOOLEY

PURPLE PEOPLE EATER …

Play My Song

MGM 12651    

No. 9 1 June; 9, r958.

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Sheb ha.s been around, done it all, and in some parts, he’s more well known thn  might .suggest. This

Wooley critter has been a DJ) song­ writer, music publisher, bandleader, scriptwriter, ;:ome dian, and

TV and movie ac:tor. And, of course, a singer-with numerous C & W charting; under not one, but two

di£fertnt names and personae.

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He was born Shelby F. Wooley, part Cherokee, on a furm 12 miles outside of Erick, Oklahmnn, on April

10,1921. Shelby artd his three brothers got on good with hones. In hi• teen years, he got to b• something

of a lo<al rode<> star. Some­ where in th;, time frame, Sheb talked his pa into troding in his shotgun ror

a tattered gui· tar.Wooley practiced on the thi.ng and formed his first band, the Plainview Melody Boys,

while still attending high school.

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Sheb worked as a wdder in C.di(ornia, but soon discovertd mu$ic-making to be the more satisfy itlg. He

and the Boys tourtd and did some radio programs. After World War II,Sheb •<t out on his own for

Nashville with a SliCk of homemade tunes under his arm. “I spent about a year there,’Wooley told Now

Dtg This. j’l was pretty m.uc:h starving. Even· tually everybody heard my songs. Everybody lt’emed to like

them. Ernest Thbb encouraged me and Eddie Arnold let n>< mow his lawn!” Soon, mu>i< folk like Jimmy

Dean, Hank Snow, and others were recording his songi.