POP MUSIC REVIEW : An Amiable Rabbitt Gets the Job Done : The singer displays an easygoing, regular-guy manner as he knocked out hit after hit at the Crazy Horse Steak House.

For a guy who has penned million-selling songs for everyone from Elvis to Ronnie Milsap to himself, Eddie Rabbitt doesn’t take his accomplishments any too seriously. He has more greatest-hits albums than some people have underwear, but at the Crazy Horse Steak House on Monday, the 45-year-old singer displayed an easygoing, regular-guy manner as he knocked out hit after hit in his 16-song early show.

Rabbitt claims to have written some of his tunes at a microwave speed: he said “Suspicions” took nine minutes, “On Second Thought” five. While no one can call the results soul-searchingly deep, Rabbitt’s songs do quite often have the advantage of being as effortless to enjoy as they were for him to write. His “Drivin’ My Life Away” is the kind of song you can sing over and over to yourself on a long haul, though any passengers might eventually try to gag you with a stuffed Garfield window toy.

That tune, which included a sing-along reprise, and the rest of the set was delivered with amiable cheer by Rabbitt, who has an unadorned, pleasantly weathered voice that got the job done. Unlike a great many touring acts, he and his five-piece band, Hare Trigger, seemed to genuinely enjoy their time onstage, particularly when joined by Rabbitt’s longtime road manager Bill Rehrig for some clowning and hot fiddling on the “Orange Blossom Special” and other numbers.

Those fiddle-riddled tunes, including the current “Hang Up the Phone” and “On Second Thought” were the closest the band came to playing in a traditional mode. Far more often it sounded about as country as the Alan Parsons Project, with burbling synths and heavily processed guitars conjuring up a ‘70s studio sterility. But even saddled with such a heavy-handed sound, the group played with warmth and vigor.

Rabbitt’s impassioned vocal on “Kentucky Rain” (his 1970 songwriting breakthrough and Elvis’ 50th gold record) survived a particularly overbusy, synth-happy arrangement. Other songs in the set included “Pure Love” which gave Ronnie Milsap his first No. 1 record in 1974, “Suspicions,” “Rocky Mountain Music,” a nicely harmonized “Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight,” and two of his earliest hits “Drinkin’ My Baby (Off My Mind)” (Rabbitt’s first No. 1 of his own in 1976) and “Two Dollars in the Jukebox.” He also performed his Desert Storm hit “American Boy,” extolling the virtues this nation’s mass-market majesties: Friday night football, Chevies and G.I. Joes.

At one point in the show Rabbitt joked about why he’s a country musician: “I just stepped in it one day, and it stayed on me.” Several of his songs could more readily be classed as pop songs, or even beer commercial fare--as indeed his “I Love a Rainy Night” was in 1981. His version of the song Monday opened with an effectively surprising burst of deafening thunder and strobe-light lightning.