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...
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