Doodletown Pipers

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The Doodletown Pipers.

The Doodletown Pipers (also known as the New Doodletown Pipers) were a 1960s easy listening vocal group founded by Ward Ellis and George Wilkins.

The Doodletown Pipers made numerous appearances on network television (including The Ed Sullivan Show), and worked with such luminaries as Count Basie, the Carpenters, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Gorshin, Alan King, Mike Post, Sarah Vaughn, John Wayne, and Rowan and Martin. Members of the group included "Mic" Bell, Mike Campbell, Jim Gilstrap, Teresa Graves, Augie Johnson, Tom McKenzie, and Oren Waters.

The group received a publicity boost when they were mentioned in the 1997 Simpsons episode El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer):

Homer: "We don't have anything in common. Look at these records: Jim Nabors, Glen Campbell, the Doodletown Pipers. Now look at her records! They stink!"

The Doodletown Pipers are considered by some to be the epitome of bland, squeaky-clean, "white-bread" popular music. One critic describes their music paradoxically as "dull-as-lint" yet at the same time "weirdly but undeniably charming." [link]

Discography

Singalong '67 (Epic Records, 1967)
Here Come the Doodletown Pipers (Epic Records, 19??)
Love Themes: Hit Songs for Those in Love (19??)

External links

[Bio at tv.com]
[All Music Guide review of Love Themes: Hit Songs for Those in Love]
Michael Devine. "[Been There, Heard That]." Pittsburgh City Paper.

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