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The Doodletown Pipers (also known as the New Doodletown Pipers) were a 1960s and 1970s easy listening 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 luminaries as Count Basie, The Carpenters, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Frank Gorshin, Alan King, Mike Post, Sarah Vaughan, John Wayne, and Rowan and 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, "white-bread" 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".