Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues"
Single by Danny O'Keefe
from the album O'Keefe
B-side "The Valentine Pieces"
Released 1972
Genre Country
Length 3:01
Label Signpost Records
Writer(s) Danny O'Keefe
Producer(s) Ahmet Ertegün
Danny O'Keefe singles chronology
"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues"
(1972)
"The Road"
(1972)

"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" is a song written and performed by Danny O'Keefe.

It was first recorded by O'Keefe in 1967, but not released. It was recorded by The Bards and released in 1968 as the b-side to the song "Tunesmith" on Parrot Records. The Bards were a band from Moses Lake, Washington.[1] The song was recorded by O'Keefe for his self-titled debut album in 1971.[2] The following year he re-recorded it (with a slower, more downbeat arrangement) for his second album, O'Keefe.[3] The second version was issued as a single, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #5 on the adult contemporary chart, and #63 on the country chart.[4] The song was also covered by Mel Tormé, especially for a 1986 episode of NBC's Night Court entitled "Leon, We Hardly Knew Ye".

It was covered by numerous artists. A cover by Leon Russell peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1984.[5]

Selected list of recorded versions

References

  1. http://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/list3.html#S1218
  2. Danny O'Keefe, Danny O'Keefe Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  3. Danny O'Keefe, O'Keefe Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  4. Danny O'Keefe's "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues Chart Positions Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  5. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
  6. Jerry Lee Lewis, Rockin' My Life Away Retrieved July 3, 2012.