sentences:  King, Gladys Knight, Johnny Mathis, and for many television variety shows ranging from Ed Sullivan to The Carpenters "Make Your Own Kind of Music", "The Captain & Tennille Songbook" and John Wayne's Emmy Award-winning "Sing Out Sweet Land," to "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson".Beal was also the conductor and arranger for the vocal groups The Establishment, The Kids Next Door, The Nabors Kids, The King Cousins, and The Doodletown Pipers, and worked on stage in Las Vegas and on the showroom circuit with such icons of the day as Phyllis Diller, Perry Como, Bobby Darin, Raquel Welch, Mitzi Gaynor, Leslie Uggams, Jim Nabors, Sally Struthers, Peggy Fleming, Frankie Avalon, and Ed Ames.Beginning in the late 1970s, he composed original music for numerous hit television series, including "Vega$" with Robert Urich, "Eight Is Enough" with Dick Van Patten and Betty Buckley, "Happy Days" with Ron Howard and Henry Winkler, "Laverne & Shirley" with Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, "Goodtime Girls" with Annie Potts and Georgia Engel, "Legmen" with Bruce Greenwood and John Terlesky, and "Chicago Story" with Dennis Franz and Craig T. Nelson.