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Frank Peppiatt dies at 85; co-creator of 'Hee Haw'
Frank Peppiatt, the co-creator of "Hee Haw," a landmark variety show mixing country music with "corny" humor that became one of TV's most unlikely and longest-running hits, has died. He was 85. Peppiatt died Wednesday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., of...
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John Aylesworth dies at 81; co-creator of TV's 'Hee Haw'
John Aylesworth, a TV writer and producer who co-created the long-running comedy-variety show "Hee Haw," has died. He was 81.
Aylesworth died Wednesday of complications of pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, said his wife, Anita...Tags: Judy Garland, ABC (tv network), Comedy (genre), Frank Sinatra, Buck Owens
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New reading material ready
Daily Gazette, Sterling, Ill.Dixon Public Library, 221 S. Hennepin Ave., has more books for its shelves. They are: Christian Fiction "Where Love Grows: Fields of Home No. 3," by Jerry Eicher; "The Chance," by Karen Kingsbury; "The Silence of Winter: The Discovery No. 2," and...Tags: U.S. Army, Extreme Couponing (tv program), Literature, Authors, Glenn Beck
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Branson's next act: reinvent itself or rely on its past?
jkaplan@kspr.comBRANSON, Mo -- The show must go on. For Branson, that means keeping alive a rich history even without the stars of its past. Stephen Critchfield and Bob Huels have lived and worked in the Music City for more than 20 years and call this era the end of a...Tags: Tony Orlando, Bobby Vinton, Yakov Smirnoff, Entertainment, Mickey Gilley
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TICKET BOX: The Black Crowes, Green Day, Title Fight on sale this week
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWelcome to Lehigh Valley Music's Ticket Box, listing new shows on sale. This week, new shows by The Black Crowes at The Electric Factory, Green Day at Liacouras Center in Philadelphia and Title Fight at Muhlenberg College are among 15...... -
Theater owner who brought stars to town dies in Branson
news@ky3.comBRANSON, Mo. – Most people wouldn't recognize Jim Thomas’ name but they know the stars he brought to Branson. Thomas died Wednesday morning at age 87. Thomas talked Roy Clark into building a theatre on the Highway 76 strip in the 1980s. ...Tags: Bobby Vinton, Entertainment, Mickey Gilley, Music
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Top 5 Concerts of the coming week
Lehigh Valley MusicTop 5 Concerts of the coming week 1. LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS An astonishing 53 years after its first hit and 47 years after its commercial peak, Little Anthony & The Imperials is among few 1950s-era R&B groups still...... -
Country icon Roy Clark keeps pickin' and grinnin' at Sellersville Theater show
Lehigh Valley MusicRoy Clark has 60 years experience in country music, including 15 Top 40 albums, 24 Top 40 hits, a Grammy Award and more than 20 years of hosting television’s ”Hee Haw.” But Clark also recently turned 78 years old and...... -
Virginia rockabilly musicians return with exhibit and CD
Daily PressThese days, 69-year-old Kenny Coates appears to be a mannerly country gentleman. Yet beneath that polite exterior crouches an original rock 'n' roll wild man. In the late 1950s, Coates fronted a rockabilly band called The Dazzlers - named for a Bill...Tags: Patsy Cline, Shipbuilding, Smithfield, Rockabilly (genre), Arts and Culture
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