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    • Feb 17, 1987
    "Hoosiers" makes its Nashville premiere, with Sheb Wooley playing a high school principal. The movie's top roles go to Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper
    Dec 2, 1990
    "Murder, She Wrote" goes to Music City, as Sheb Wooley, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Dean guest in an episode of the CBS drama titled "Ballad For A Blue Lady"
    Aug 13, 1994
    Erick, Oklahoma, renames Main Street as Sheb Wooley Avenue
    Jun 17, 1999
    Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the new Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. Among the artists on hand: Ricky Lynn Gregg, Eric Heatherly, David Kersh, Lila McCann, Shane Minor, Jason Sellers and Sheb Wooley
    Aug 23, 1999
    Sheb Wooley is released from a Nashville hospital, where he's been receiving treatment for pneumonia
    Nov 9, 2001
    "Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Collection" is certified gold by the RIAA. The compilation includes Homer & Jethro's "Battle Of Kookamonga," Ray Stevens' "Gitarzan," Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater" and Shel Silverstein's "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out"
    Sep 17, 2003
    Singer/songwriter/actor Sheb Wooley dies at Nashville's Skyline Medical Center of leukemia. Known for "The Purple People Eater" and a series of parodies under the name Ben Colder, he wrote the "Hee Haw" theme song
    Jun 4, 2017
    "'The Purple People Eater' singer Wooley" is the clue for 116-down in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle. The four-letter answer is "Sheb," the first name of a late country singer and humorist
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