In 1948, he appeared several times as a guest on the country music radio show "Shorty and Sally Fincher Jamboree Show" out of Wheeling, West Virginia, and traveled the region (including York, Pennsylvania) with the WWVA Jamboree during the summer of 1948 with country music stars like Hank Williams Sr., Hank Snow and Little Jimmy Dickens.

In November 1952, during the Korean War, Beach enlisted into the United States Marine Corps.

Beach continued writing songs and performing until 1962 when his wife Barbara was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

In the late 1980s, during the resurgence of rockabilly in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, "Peg Pants" once again enjoyed radio success in England, France and Germany.

In 1998, he submitted his song "Viagra and the Beeper" to The Nashville Network's (TNN) International Amateur Songwriting Contest.

[4] In 2010, Beach was commissioned by the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve to write a song commemorating the discovery of new aquatic wildlife in Naples, FL.