Danny O’Keefe

Most closely connected with his 1972 TOP entry “Great Period Charlie’s Got the Blues,” vocalist/songwriter Danny O’Keefe was created and raised in Spokane, WA, starting his performing profession around the Minnesota coffeehouse circuit from the mid-’60s. Through Buffalo Springfield supervisor Charles Greene, he got a phone audition with Atlantic Information honcho Ahmet Ertegun, putting your signature on using the label’s Cotillion imprint to concern his self-titled 1971 debut LP. The follow-up, 1972’s O’Keefe, yielded his lone strike, “Good Period Charlie,” later on included in Elvis Presley and many more. Although 1973’s Breezy Tales didn’t capitalize around the industrial achievement of its forerunner, it do generate two of O’Keefe’s best-known compositions, “Magdalena” and “Angel Pass on Your Wings” (included in Leo Sayer and Judy Collins, respectively). Pursuing 1975’s SUCH A LONG TIME Harry Truman, he jumped to Warner Bros. to concern 1977’s American Roulette. For this period, O’Keefe played some charity concerts for environmental causes, along with his attempts culminating 2 decades later on with the forming of his Songbird Basis, a group focused on the safety of songbirds harmed by intense coffee-growing methods in Latin America. In 1984, he also founded his personal record label, Coldwater, release a YOUR DAY to Day time; Runnin’ From your Devil, his 1st new studio recording in more than a decade, made an appearance in early 2000.