It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music.

Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. I'm not a very forward person. However two days following the record's release Private Stock discovered the existence of another Big Apple Band; the record was later re-released and credited to "The Walter Murphy Band" before dropping the tradition altogether.

(born December 19 1952) is an American instrumentalist songwriter and arranger. He rose to fame with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven" a disco adaptation of passages from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in 1976 when disco was rising in popularity.