I loved this song when I was a kid. I may be showing my age, but,
if your old enough to remember "The Purple People Eater" song tells
how a strange little monster (described as a "one-eyed, one-horned,
flying, purple people eater") descends to Earth because it wants to
be in a rock 'n' roll band. “The Purple People Eater”
is a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which
reached #1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958. The premise of the
song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's.
Wooley finished composing it within an hour. For this cache, you
are looking for an unusually camoed cache the size of a 35mm film
container with just a log, so BYOP. Stealth may be required, as
this can be a busy area at times. Parking is located near the cache
area. I’m including some additional info about the song below
for those who are interested. Happy Caching, and watch out for
those little Purple People Eaters !!!
The ambiguity of the song was present when it was originally
played on the radio. In responses to requests from radio DJs,
listeners drew pictures that show a "people eater" colored purple.
The voice of the purple people eater is a sped up recording, giving
it a voice similar to, but not quite as high-pitched or as fast, as
Ross Bagdasarian's "Witch Doctor", another hit from earlier in
1958; and "The Chipmunk Song" which was released late in 1958. (The
Chipmunks themselves eventually covered "Purple People Eater" for
their 1998 album The A-Files: Alien Songs.) The sound of a toy
saxophone was produced in a similar fashion as the saxophone was
originally played at a reduced speed. (In the Chipmunks' cover
version, there is a longer sax solo, and it was recorded and played
at its normal speed.) The song invokes phrases from several other
hit songs from that era: "Short Shorts", by The Royal Teens, and
"Tequila", by The Champs, both from earlier in 1958; and "Tutti
Frutti" from 1955. The Sheb Wooley version crossed to the Billboard
R&B listings, and while it did not make Billboard's country
chart, it reached #4 on the Cashbox country listing. Jimmy Buffett
produced and recorded a version of the song for the motion picture
Contact (1997). A cover version of the song, recorded by British
comedian Barry Cryer reached #1 in the Finnish charts after
contractual reasons prevented Wooley's version being released in
Scandinavia. This song cover was recorded on the Kidsongs' video
"Very Silly Songs". The album version released on October 2009
sounds similar to the Sheb Wooley version. The enduring popularity
of the song led to the nicknaming of the highly effective Minnesota
Vikings defensive line of the 1970s, whose team colors include
purple. The character was used as the basis for a feature film in
1988, with an all-star cast including Neil Patrick Harris, Ned
Beatty, Shelley Winters, (a very young) Thora Birch, Little
Richard, Chubby Checker, and Wooley himself.