The Beaus of Beethoven came from Patton, Pennsylvania and other towns of Cambria County, about 75 miles east of Pittsburgh. Their manager Jack Cessna’s base was Ebensburg.
Members were:
Ron McClinsey – lead vocal, guitar
Nick Fagan – lead guitar
Dave Holtz – keyboards
Paul Lazendorfer – bass
Danny Miller – drums
The Beaus of Beethoven opened for many artists at the Jaffa Mosque in Altoona and appeared on WIIC TV Pittsburgh’s Saturday bandstand show.
In 1967 the band cut two originals at Sound-Pro Studio for release in September. I don’t know the location of that studio and haven’t seen it credited on other singles.
“It’s Too Late” (by Ronald McClinsey, Nicholas Fagan Jr. and David Holtz, B-W Music Inc. BMI) has a buzzing lead guitar while the singer tells how he’s “sing my time just hanging around town, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, living my sins with no regrets” while his ex is “ridin’ uptown in a limousine, checking the nice balls, making the scene”.
A real treasure is the flip, “Goin’ Away” (written by Miller, Holtz and Lazendorfer, Weldee Music Co. BMI), a true picture of teen angst in lyrics like:
I’m comin’ down off the roof, gonna bring my baby back,
I’ve been around too long, now I want to be alone.
So many people tell me I’m nothin’ but a nothin’
wish I could make out the next line “but I can get with my girl …..”
Publishing was through Weldee Music and B-W Music Inc, owned by the same company in Ohio.
The video below has three photos of the band.
Thank you to Peter Aaron for the scans of the 45, which he compiled on a 50 run cassette “Epitaphs for Heads volume 1” in the late ’80s.
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