Doodletown Pipers mentioned upthread is now permanently associated with this Simpsons line for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4MTfxY8X0
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 5 May 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
Doodletown Pipers wiki page mentions that they also appeared on a Carpenters summer replacement show called Make Your Own Kind of Music.I have no real recollection of this show, especially the alphabet gimmick.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 May 2024 22:33 (one month ago) link
If you need more names and vague remembrances:
http://www.tvparty.com/variety3.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2024 01:50 (one month ago) link
That was great, thanks!
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
Or should I say, Ken Berry WOW!
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:18 (one month ago) link
WOW!! Now that's the kind of lame-ass variety show I spent my late teenage years avoiding like the plague!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:55 (one month ago) link
lol, I had no idea so many '70s AM gold one-hit wonders had their own attendant short-lived variety series. Thank you for this eye-opening journey.It looks like it may have dropped in spring rather than summer, but I will nonetheless use this space continue my campaign to spread awareness of The Hanna Barbera Happy Hour, which is one of the most profound examples of coke psychosis I've ever seen on network television.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstOiiJKHQQ
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 May 2024 10:58 (one month ago) link