The two performed together in the Boy Scout Fife and Bugle Corps, with Waring as drum major and McClintock as drummer.
[4] In 1915, he and Waring's brother, Tom, formed a banjo group, The Waring-McClintock Snap Orchestra.
[5] His characteristic vocal inflections are heard frequently in many of the Pennsylvanians' novelty tunes, singing his parts in a low-range frog-like croak.
[6] It is widely believed that the part sung by Tony Burrows in The Pipkins' 1970 novelty record "Gimme Dat Ding" was intended as a tribute to McClintock.
[citation needed] McClintock was married to silent film actress Yvette Mitchell.