Keith Galliher, Jr. is a Las Vegas attorney and recording artist. Keith’s legal career began in 1974. Over the past forty years, he has established himself as one of the best attorneys in the Las Vegas area. He enjoys the highest rating from Martindale-Hubble and has received numerous awards as an attorney.
Keith’s music career is a very interesting story. Keith initially recorded “Wonderful Tonight”, an Eric Clapton tune for his wife, Linda, as a Christmas gift. In that connection, Keith enlisted the talents of his friend and producer, Clarence Collins. Clarence is the founder of Little Anthony & The Imperials and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Clarence brought in William Weist and Mary Eckler as arrangers. Both have served as musical directors for prominent musicians including Little Anthony & The Imperials, Rita Coolidge, and Helen Reddy. Clarence and Keith also asked Jim Gilstrap to assist with backup vocals. Jim has sung backup for, among others, Stevie Wonder and James Taylor. At various times, Clarence and Rick Morris, of the Skyliners, have performed backup vocals on Keith’s songs.
The initial recording of “Wonderful Tonight” led to a complete ten song album featuring fresh versions of songs such as “I Only Have Eyes for You”, “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”, “My Sweet Lady”, “Through The Years”, “The First Time”, “Words”, “Blue Eyes”, “Sea of Love”, and previously unrecorded “Song Without an End”. The musical arrangements with respect to many of the songs on the “Love Songs for Linda” album are fresh and differ markedly from the original versions. “Song Without an End” is the subject of two youtube video. The latest version can be accessed on Imperials Plus Records Vimeo
In 2012, Keith recorded “Memory of All”, a tribute song to the victims of 9/11 and their families. This song received radio airplay along the east coast and west coast of the United States. It is also the subject of a youtube video.
Since the album, Keith has recorded “It’s Impossible”, the Perry Como standard “I Can See Clearly Now” which was made famous by Johnny Nash in the 1970’s, “I’m On Fire”, the Bruce Springsteen song, “Christy”, “Wake Up The World”, “You Know I’m Listening”, “Good Times Good Times”, and “ Linaka a”. All of these songs are original and have never been previously recorded. Within the next several weeks, Keith will record “Premonition”, a song written by Teddy Randazzo which also has never been commercially recorded. Only one song will remain to complete Keith’s second album which will be entitled “Better Late Than Never”.
All of Keith’s songs have received radio airplay in the United States, Canada, and Europe. “I Can See Clearly Now” and “Christy” are presently receiving radio airplay in England.
Keith’s music has been featured on a number of radio shows including The Harmony Street Show hosted by Mike Miller which was broadcast on Boston Internet radio. During that half hour broadcast, six of Keith’s songs were featured. The show ran for over a month on a nightly basis beginning at 9 p.m. eastern standard time. At 4 a.m. eastern standard time, the show was broadcast into several different countries in Europe.
More recently, Keith has been the guest of Eddie Floyd on “State Your Case”. Several of the most recent half hour segments have centered around the music. The shows are broadcast on Renegade Radio 101.3FM out of Reno, Nevada. Renegade Radio is an internet station that reaches an audience in 28 foreign countries and all 50 states.
Keith’s music was the subject of a magazine piece entitled “Crooner, Esq.” in Nevada Magazine’s July/August 2013 edition. Additionally, Keith’s music has been featured on local television in Las Vegas, Nevada.
You can follow Keith’s music at keithgalliherjrmusic/facebook.com and keithgalliherjrmusic.com. The music facebook has received over 180,000 hits and presently has just under 9,300 likes.
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Most recently, Keith has been invited to perform in Florida on a television show which, according to its promoters, reaches a viewing audience of 3 million people.
Keith’s music career is still young. However, it is gathering steam and should continue to attract interest from people who like good music for the foreseeable future.
