The Doodletown Pipers
The Doodletown Pipers | |
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The Doodletown Pipers (as themselves) with Leslie Uggams (as herself), Robert Morse (as Robert Dickson) and E. J. Peaker (as Gloria Quigley Dickson) in "Our First Christmas" (the thirteenth episode of the 26-episode 1960s American musical comedy television series That's Life) | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | The New Doodletown Pipers |
| Genres | Easy listening |
| Years active | 1960s and 1970s |
| Labels | Epic Records Sony Music Entertainment Legacy Recordings Bell Records |
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The Doodletown Pipers (also known as The New Doodletown Pipers) were a 1960s and 1970s easy listening musical vocal group founded by Ward Ellis, George Wilkins, Bernie Brillstein and Jerry Weintraub.
The Doodletown Pipers made numerous appearances on network television (including The Ed Sullivan Show), and worked with such names as Count Basie, The Carpenters, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Gorshin, Alan King, Mike Post, Sarah Vaughan, John Wayne, and Rowan & Martin. Members of the group included Mic Bell, Mike Campbell, Jim Gilstrap, Teresa Graves, Augie Johnson, Rod Anderson, Tom McKenzie, Samantha Lessard, and Oren Waters.
The Doodletown Pipers are considered by some to be the epitome of bland, squeaky-clean popular music. One critic describes their music paradoxically as "dull-as-lint" yet at the same time "weirdly but undeniably charming." On his television program, Roger Miller referred to them as the "Poodletown Diapers".