Ben Colder News Today

Is this song about a purple monster who eats people? Or someone who eats purple people? THAT is the question.

This week in 1963: 100,000 Japanese protested the visit of U.S. nuclear subs; Alabama Gov. George Wallace called state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration; public schools began integration in South Carolina and Louisiana and a singer named Sheb Wooley (alias: Ben Colder) was still enjoying the chart success of his MGM single "Hello Walls No. 2." The single had made its chart debut in March and had peaked at No. 30.

This week in 1982: President John Kennedy endorsed an emergency communications link between Washing-ton and the Kremlin; Explorer 16 was launched from Cape Canaveral, the first satellite only for meteorite studies; the U.S. and U.K. planned a joint NATO atom force; and a singer from Erick, Oklahoma, had his first charted single under the name Ben Colder.