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( AM 1450/100.9 FM ) Tonight ’s featured artist is James Barry Keefer. Keith. On wrco those were the days. Thanks for joining us on this Saturday night. Phil: Joining us on wrco is Keith, good to talk to you after all these years. Keith: Phil, My pleasure. Phil: You are one of those that still get ’s requested a lot here. And we ’re Glad to have you on the show, are you busy these days? Keith: Well I got my fingers in a lot of pies. As, I always have, Musically, TV wise. It ’s just non-stop. Phil: That ’s good. Well I know you are touring a lot, are you appearing on the bill with other artist ’s from the same era? Keith: Oddly enough I ’m not. That ’s in the works though, I hooked up with my producer of mostly all my hits Jerry Ross a couple months ago, and he is trying to get a package together of Jay and the Techniques, Bobby Head, and all the acts that he produced. And go out and do a Jerry Ross tour, I guess it would be called. Phil: Sure, You know that would kind of be like a family reunion for you wouldn ’t it? Keith: It certainly would. Phil: You know as we look back of course everyone probably remembers 98.6. That probably is playing on the radio somewhere right now isn ’t it? Keith: I believe it gets played more now then it actually probably did twenty years ago. Phil: Is that right? Keith: Yeah, I talked to one of the writers George Fishoff and he said yeah, it was, he was actually making more off of it now then he was back then. Phil: Unreal. That was a top ten record for you wasn ’t it? Keith: Yes, Well it went to number one in billboard and I think the top 5 in cashbox. Phil: And as you look back on those days were you just on a constant whirlwind tour? Keith: Whirlwind would not be the word, it was basically a tour, for two years I was out on the road, it all became very blur like, but I got a chance to hook up with frank zappa to sing lead when Mark and Howard left, to actually grasp more of the places that I had been that I recalled and put them into a memory bank. Phil: It actually was a big hit. Did you know it was going to be a big hit when you were in the studio, 98.6? Keith: At that particular time I did not. Because I had been coming up from an accapella background in high school, and then getting into music after I got out of high school, and before I went into college. I was more into the English rock and that was the stuff that I was writing and performing at frat parties all up and down the east coast. And When I hooked up with jerry he put me more into that pop commercial vein, and after hearing the song I remember calling my wife at the time and saying you wouldn ’t believe what they have me singing, and I sang it to her over the phone. No, I had no idea. Phil: So that wasn ’t the style that you were used to in another words? Keith: Exactly. Phil: Now did you hear somebody else sing it on the demo form? Keith: Ah, gee that is a good question. No I don ’t think I ever heard a demo because, Jerry would have the writers come right in and sit down at the piano and Kenny Campbell, who had a song on the album, Doc Pompous those guys would just come in and play. And that ’s how they would teach you the song. (98.

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