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...notably that of Benny Goodman (Clarinet á la King, Benny Rides Again), then teamed up with fellow Arranger Bill Finegan during the 1950s to form the innovative Sauter-Finegan orchestra, which used unusually diverse instrumentation to recast such tunes as Moonlight on the Ganges, April in Paris and The Doodletown Fifers; of a heart attack; in Nyack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 4, 1981 | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

FRANK SINATRA JR. WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The family includes Dad and Sister Nancy, and the friends are Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Arte Johnson and the Doodletown Pipers on this musical-variety special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...PLACE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The Doodletown Pipers, Burns and Schreiber, and the dog puppet Rowlf host this new musical-comedy variety hour. Guest star on the première show: Carol Burnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 30, 1967 | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Rodgers and Hart Today" the old favorites get a contemporary beat from the Mamas and the Papas, the Supremes, Petula Clark, the Doodletown Pipers, Count Basic and his orchestra and Host Bobby Darin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them up again, the second piccolo had switched to tenor sax, quickly moved on to flute, then back to piccolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Sound | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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