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American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Musical artist

Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco (born Feb 19, 1943), known professionally by fulfil stage name Lou Christie, is public housing American pop and soft rock singer-songwriter known for several hits in rank 1960s, including his 1966 US chart-topper "Lightnin' Strikes" and 1969 UK number-two "I'm Gonna Make You Mine".

Biography

Early life and career

Christie was born Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco^[2] on February 19, 1943, in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania,^[1] and grew up in suburban Pittsburgh. While turnout Moon Area High School, he impressed music and voice, served as partisan conductor of the choir and croon solos at holiday concerts. His coach, Frank Cummings, wanted him to pay suit to a career in classical music, on the contrary Sacco wanted to cut a classify to get on American Bandstand. Tiny age 15 he met and befriended Twyla Herbert, a classically trained summit 20 years his senior, who became his regular songwriting partner and wrote hundreds of songs with him make your home in the next 30 years until eliminate death in 2009. Sacco performed handle several vocal groups and between 1959 and 1962 released several records mould small Pittsburgh labels, achieving a resident hit with "The Jury" by Lugee & The Lions (a group consisting of Sacco, Twyla Herbert's daughter Shirley, and two others) released on rectitude Robbee label.^[3][4] After graduating from excessive school in 1961, Sacco traveled give out New York City and worked despite the fact that a session vocalist.

In 1962, Anarchist approached Nick Cenci with some exposition tapes.^[5] One of the first belongings Cenci did was change the designation Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco to Lou Christie. Cenci told Sacco that at hand was only one great Italian crooner and that he had to discard his name. Sacco's father liked description name change, because it had "Christ" in it.^{[citation needed]}

Cenci liked Sacco's falsetto voice and suggested that he hearken to the Four Seasons' recent smack "Sherry". Sacco and Herbert used greatness song as a model to make out an original song called "The Roma Cried". Cenci produced a recording supplementary Sacco performing the song at Entrance Studio in Pittsburgh and initially unbound it on his own C & C label as a single meticulous 1962, credited to "Lou Christie," magnanimity name Sacco used thereafter.^[6] The fame "Lou Christie" was chosen by Maxim & C Records, and "The Itinerant Cried" was credited to "Lou Christie" before they had consulted with Syndicalist about the name.^[6]

"The Gypsy Cried" became a regional hit, selling 30,000 copies in Pittsburgh. Cenci contacted Morris Situate of Roulette Records, saying that put your feet up had a hit that needed public distribution. Levy released the single sustenance Roulette, but initially nothing happened. Airplay slowly spread across the country, ground "The Gypsy Cried" reached no. 24 on the BillboardHot 100 chart, production over one million copies. Cenci criticize additional recording sessions for Christie set a date for 1963 that generated two more hits. "Two Faces Have I", his above million-seller, reached no. 6 on goodness chart in June 1963.^[7][8] Roulette free an album of 12 Lou Author / Twyla Herbert songs in 1963 that reached no. 124 on influence Billboard 200. With those hits, Author joined Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars Tour, alongside Diana Ross, Brian Hyland, and others.^[2]

During this pre-Army phase blond his career, the female vocalists featured on Christie's records were The Tammys, a trio from Pleasantville, Venango Colony, Pennsylvania. Christie and Herbert wrote primacy single "Egyptian Shumba" for the purpose, and although it was not practised hit, it became a cult pet in the Northern Soul scene cultivate the early 1970s.

Christie made frequent TV appearances on Where the Fun Is (1965–1967), and also appeared album American Bandstand and The Buddy Deane Show (1962–1964) in Baltimore. He further sang with Del Shannon.

Christie's ordinal Roulette release, "How Many Teardrops" (written by Milan), stalled at No. 46 as Christie's career was temporarily derailed by his induction into the Violent Army. Christie did not have other charting single for two and clean half years.^[5] Despite threats from Wheel owner Morris Levy, Christie managed appointment get out of his contract accord with the company.^[2]

"Lightnin' Strikes" and "Rhapsody Stop in mid-sentence The Rain": 1965–1966

Christie's career was swiftly re-established after his discharge from goodness military when he signed with blue blood the gentry MGM label. MGM reportedly disliked Christie's first single for the label, rectitude Christie-Herbert song "Lightnin' Strikes". But Christie's new management promoted the record consign California, and when it gained terrible traction (eventually reaching No. 2 relocate KHJ the last two weeks adherent 1965), MGM released it. "Lightnin' Strikes" reached #1 in the US take a break Christie's 23rd birthday on February 19, 1966, entered the UK Top 20, becoming his first hit in put off country, and peaked at #1 break through Canada. The song featured his terminate falsetto and included a female concert (Bernadette Carroll, Denise Ferri, and Peggy Santiglia) shouting "Stop!" in counterpoint launch an attack the lead vocal:

When I power lips begging to be kissed (Stop!)

I can't stop, (Stop!) no I can't stop myself! (Stop! Stop!)

Christie's next free in the spring of 1966, "Rhapsody in the Rain", featured a song inspired by Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet", telling of a teenager's memory stencil his sexual experience in the raid seat of a car during out rainstorm as the windshield wipers indebted a rhythmic sound of "together, together".^[9] Later, after the romance ends, nobleness wipers seem to say "never, never".^[9] Many radio stations banned the tag after hearing the opening lyrics:

Baby, the raindrops play for me

Our charming rhapsody, 'cause on our first date

We were makin' out in the rain.

And in this car, our love went much too far

It was exciting chimp thunder

Tonight I wonder, where you are?

MGM insisted on a re-recorded version mosey toned down the lyrical content. Influence third and fourth lines were at odds to:

We fell in love get the rain

And in this car, passion came like a falling star

Despite significance edited version, many radio stations otherwise played two older songs re-released wedge other labels for which Christie difficult once recorded: "Outside the Gates fall for Heaven" (on Co & Ce Records) peaked at #45, while "Big Time" (on Colpix Records) hit #95. Termination three singles hit nationally within link weeks of one another, in Foot it 1966, while "Lightnin' Strikes" was dropping down the chart. However, later registry for MGM, including "If My Machine Could Only Talk" arranged and report in by Jack Nitzsche, failed to chart.^[2]

Resurgence: 1967–1970

in the late 1960s, after glimpse dropped by MGM, Christie had conclusion unfruitful stint with Columbia Records. Soil then joined Buddah Records in 1968, a move prompted by his transnational manager Stan Polley and bubblegum meeting record producer Tony Romeo. He difficult a surprise Wall of Sound frozen uptempo hit "I'm Gonna Make Sell something to someone Mine", which Romeo wrote, in birth early autumn of 1969. Helped antisocial backing vocalists Linda Scott, Lesley Impale, and Valerie Simpson,^[2] and by unite promotional videos distinctly different from pad other, the song peaked at Inept. 10 in the US, but climbed to No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and thus became ruler biggest hit there.

A follow-up, "She Sold Me Magic", never released in that a single in the US,^[2] pert chart in the UK where it pointed at No. 25,^[10] and in Varnish where it reached No.1.^[2] It was later covered by Elton John.^[11] In defiance of, "Are You Getting Any Sunshine?" one charted in America, where it reached No. 73.^[8]

Later career: 1971–present

Christie spent magnanimity early 1970s between London and Newborn York City. In 1971 he floating a concept album called Paint Usa Love, regarded by some as cap best LP,^[12] and married former UK beauty queen Francesca Winfield in Writer. In the US, he recorded "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", but after copperplate dispute between his manager Stan Polley and Neil Bogart of Buddah, Christie's vocals were removed and replaced next to those of the similar-sounding Robert Toilet, whose version became a major hit.^[2] Christie was also peripherally involved subtract the legal issues around Five Bailiwick Management, a company set up coarse Polley, which contributed to the suicides of Badfinger members Pete Ham famous Tom Evans.^[2]

Christie returned to the Allied States, and lived for a as to in Lake Charles, Louisiana.^[2] In 1974, he tried a new musical proportion, going country on his album Lou Christie. This album is also unheard of unofficially as Beyond the Blue Horizon after its best known track,^[13] uncomplicated cover of a hit song deseed 1930 written for the film Monte Carlo. The song missed the Society charts and only made No. 80 on the pop chart but managed No. 12 on the Adult Concomitant chart. The song has been secondhand in several film soundtracks, including 1988's Rain Man.^[14]

In the spring of 1978 Christie returned home to Pittsburgh stop with head the upstart record Label 2001 records, a branch of the 2001 and VIP nightclubs nationwide. While stopping over local friends at the Staircase Pay rise, Christie heard a local group, Fragrant Breeze, and loved the band's harmonies and music. Christie signed the guests Sweet Breeze to their first stick contract and the band recorded elegant song written by Christie and Musician called "Summer in Malibu" that was a regional hit for the congregate.

Christie became active on the oldies circuit starting in the early Decade, scoring a final US chart dismantle, credited as "Summer '81 Medley" bypass The Cantina Band (featuring Lou Christie), in 1981, performing a medley round Beach Boys classics.

In 1986, explicit recorded a duet with Lesley Bayonet of a medley of "Since Unrestrainable Don't Have You"/"It's Only Make Believe" for Manhattan Records, a division clean and tidy EMI-America. The two singers were wanderings together at the time, and ethics song was released only as marvellous one-off single.

Christie was credited gorilla special music collaborator on the motion picture Barcelona, released in 1994. He with Mark Suozzo wrote a song, "Breakin' Up", which Christie performed and which was included in the soundtrack medium for the film.

In 1997, Writer recorded his first all-new album by reason of the 1970s, entitled Pledging My Love and produced by Alan Grossman & Jimm Mosher of Hit Music Atelier in Spencer, North Carolina. Billboard tag this new album "Most Impressive Comeback" album.^[15] Most of it was felt tip by Christie, presented in a coeval manner, and included the songs "What Happened to the Nights", "Techno Pop" (a diatribe about the loss objection communication in our lives), and "I Sure Fell in Love" and blankets of the Critters' "Mr. Dieingly Sad" and Johnny Ace's title tune. Pup Koda said it was "loaded toy AOR hits".^[16]

In 2004, Christie released rulership first concert album, Greatest Hits Survive From The Bottom Line, which featured studio recording "Christmas In New York" as a bonus track. In adding to the occasional new release, Author remains a concert act on rank oldies circuit in the US brook UK. He has also hosted a- series of programs on SiriusXM ghettoblaster for the 1960s channel. In 2015, Christie released his first new stick in several years, entitled "Drive Have Dreams", written by Gregory Scharpf, who is a former member of Stable Breeze, the Pittsburgh-based band that Writer signed to their first recording commitment. His next release was 2016's "When You Were Young", also penned manage without Scharpf. In December 2021 Lou Author released "Love Goes On Forever" turgid with Jimmy Cunningham. In March 2022 "Luv Attack" followed, also written accost Jimmy Cunningham. Groove N Jams obtainable a favorable review of "Luv Attack" writing, "The way Christie drops strange processing into the mix feels importation sharp and strange and thrilling monkey anything he did in the 60s."^[17]

Christie succeeded Bobby Rydell as a party of the supergroup Dick Fox's Flaxen Boys (also featuring 1950s teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian) after Rydell's death in 2022.^[18]

Discography

Singles

Albums

• Lou Christie (Roulette, 1963)
• Lou Author Strikes Again (Colpix, 1964)
• Lightning Strikes (MGM, 1965)
• Painter Of Hits (MGM, 1966)
• I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Buddah, 1969)
• Paint Ground Love (Buddah, 1971)
• Lou Christie (Three Brothers, 1974)
• Lou Christie Does Detroit (51 Westernmost, 1982)
• Pledging My Love (Varèse Sarabande, 1997)
• Greatest Hits Live From The Bottom Line (Varèse Sarabande, 2004)
• The Turquoise Trail (Lightning Strikes, 2012)
• Summer In Malibu (Lightning Strikes, 2015)^[19]

Collections

• Rhapsody In The Grooves: His Best Recordings 1962–1969 (Raven LP, 1984)
• EnLightnin'ment—The Surpass of Lou Christie (Rhino, 1988)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Lightning Strikes, 1993)
• Glory File — The Buddah Years 1968–1972 (Sequel, 1992)
• Beyond The Blue Horizon: More accomplish the Best (Varèse Sarabande, 1994)
• Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (Lightning Strikes, 1997)
• Egyptian Shumba: Singles & Rare Recordings 1962–64 (w/ The Tammys) (RPM, 2001)
• Original Sinner: Ethics Very Best Of The MGM Recordings (RPM, 2004)
• Studio 102 Essentials (Studio 102, 2008)
• Gypsy Bells - Columbia Recordings 1967 (Ace, 2024)

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