It may just be the influence of Seth MacFarlane, or the fact that HeeHaw 
was never essential viewing for me, buy my first thought on reading this 
was that Peppiatt's tombstone will read "Ladies & gentlemen, Mr. Conway 
Twitty..."

M-D
Now here's Roy.

On Monday, November 12, 2012 4:11:06 PM UTC-5, Bob in Jersey wrote:
>
> Frank Peppiatt, along with longtime associate John Aylesworth, worked on a 
> whole laundry list of variety shows for the likes of Jackie Gleason, Sonny 
> & Cher, and Frank Sinatra, but their biggest success was with the *
> Laugh-In*-like country-comedyfest that they somehow 'got' despite having 
> not grown up in Nashville, where they'd go twice a year to tape raw 
> material that would then be hauled to Cali to edit... his memoirs, "When 
> Variety Was King," will be printed this spring...
>
> LA 
> Times<http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frank-peppiatt-20121109,0,7374595.story>
>
> -- BOB
>

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