Initially, Danny Stevens directed the group to perform almost exclusively at private gathering, aside from some state fairs, for business and media figures in hopes of establishing connections in the music industry.

As a result, the band earned an appearance on the region's first television show to feature live music, A Date with Dino, and were regularly scheduled at teen clubs such as the Vincent Van a-Go-Go.

[1][2] With the onset of the British Invasion, the band, renamed Danny's Reasons, evolved their musical style and their stage images between 1964 and 1965 based mainly on the work of the Rolling Stones, although the group also incorporated songs recorded by the Animals into their repertoire.

[1] After hiring Bob Dylan's younger brother David Zimmerman as manager and Dick Shapiro as promoter, Danny's Reasons embarked on a Midwest and West coast college tour, which reached its pinnacle at the nightclub London Fog to support the band's sponsor, Gibson guitar, in Los Angeles.

In 1967, at the inaugural Connie Awards held on May 22, 1967 in the Sheraton-Ritz Hotel in Minneapolis hosted by Charlie Boone of WCCO radio, Danny Stevens was honored with Best Vocal-Single and Best Showman-Single.