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Danny O’Keefe
Danny O’Keefe
Danny O’Keefe and artist Keiko Kasai, LA 1986
What does the average guy know about Danny O’Keefe?
If I mention “Good Time Charlie” to someone from the broad cross-section, he’ll buy me a cup of coffee. It’s good for something—a lot of tickets on a roll.
The song brought a sudden leap into the limelight?
They liked me. It’s just that I haven’t had anything else that was quite like that, something that people sat down and got. Maybe I’ve had some potential hits, but they’ve been so far apart. Everybody knows that particular song, but not so many know me. There’s a club audience, but the song has an anonymity factor—it may have something to do with why the record still plays so well.
What is it that you find interesting in people?