Lexington Teen Scene

The Lexington Teen Scene

The High School yearbooks of Lexington were called "The Spirit Of ..." with the year added. Free copies can be browsed here.

Lexington High had the honor to be subject of a "real-life documentary": The Stan Harlow Hour had a feature called "The World Of The Teenager" that was being filmed at Lexington High in 1966. The yearbook reflects this documentary: "We had fears during the filming and questioned the value of some of those supposedly real-life shots. The tide of letters and angry outbursts has ebbed (would you let your daughter go out with a Lexington boy?), but we won't forget the excitement of being on TV, the worlds they left out, the stunts we pulled for the cameramen, or the people who tried to help us in the World We Never Made."

The yearbook continues with a honest sentiment: "The stifling dark, the blaring music, the crazy dances with crazier names like the Jump-rope, the Jerk, the Eighty-one, or no names at all. And in a bright empty corridor or a dark steamy corner, cokes for the parched and exhausted. . . these are our dances and parties, the ones they did a documentary about."

Teen Beat groups from Lexington included Blue Sirens , Bundal Of Joy , Centurions , Constellations , Court Jesters , Drive , 59th Street Bridge Shoppe , Flowering Haze , Fragmentary Blue , Frosted Calliope , Henchmen , Mad Hatters , Make Believes , Pied Pipers , Regents , Ronnie & The Del-Tones , Shillings , Whirlwinds , Wild Kats .

Teenagers who played in Garage Beat or Rock bands included: Bruce Trzaskos , Clarence Smart , Stan Smith , Jack Meehan (Blue Sirens) , Jay Barron , Richard Horner , Donald Yebba , Phillip Yebba , Ray Messieur , Ray Richards , Bosco (Bundal Of Joy) , Roy Parsons , Jeff Cassidy , Steve Budreau , Al Zani (Centurions) , Curtis Doo , Henry Brehm , Steve Lowry , Bob Hinckley (Constellations) , Denis Fullerton , Dick Casey , Ken Balon , Bill Cuccinello (Court Jesters) , Bill Koning , Bill Brown , Eliot Spiegal , Scott Conant (Drive) , Dave Bustoffer , Ron Ormsby , Mike Blackmer , George Maloof (Fragmentary Blue) , Ted Comstock , Lance Neilson , Bobby Arlen , Jack Fuller (Frosted Calliope) , Gerard Campasi , Dick Horner , Steve Paterson , Toni Polcari , Bob Heiligmann , Rennie Millican (Henchmen) , Charles Savage , Stanley Smith , Arthur Maranian , Allen Estes , Leo Ferraresi , George Reffeitt , Rich Tierney (Make Believes) , Barry Bolski , Frosty Aronson , Ken Streight , Russ Levine , Scott Benton (Pied Pipers) , Thomas Godino , Bruce LeBlanc , Richard Cormier , Stephen McGovern (Regents) , Jay Barron , Philip Yebba , Richard Horner , Al Kanter , Don Yebba (Whirlwinds)

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Battle Of The Bands, Prom-Manaders, October 2, 1965

Attendance of 750

• Ronnie & The Del-Tones (#1)
• Shillings
• Wild Kats

Battle Of The Bands, December 27, 1965

Mad Hatters won but later resigned due to "future educational commitments".

• Mad Hatters (#1)
• Pied Pipers (#2)

Battle Of The Bands, December, 1966

• Pied Pipers (#1)
• Shillings (#3)

Battle Of The Bands, High School, February 19, 1967

2 to 5 PM

• American Shame Society
• Centurians
• Cross Section Of Insanity
• Gentlemen (best overall band 18+)
• Keymen
• Last Cause / Lost Cause
• Make-Believes / Make Believe (#1)
• Moove
• Rogues
• Somethin' Else
• Town Criers

Battle Of The Bands, High School, March 3, 1968

600 people attending. "Ace Recording Studios is sending a talent scout."

• Blue Sirens
• Drive
• Fragmentary Blue
• Frosted Calliope
• Make Believes (#1)
• Music Bachs (#2)

Battle Of The Bands, High School, March 30, 1969

• New Weird (#1)