# RIP Lou Christie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 19, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843 "2025-06-19T11:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/1 "2025-06-19T11:40:30Z")
Who had the better falsetto? Frankie Valli or Lou Christie (who died yesterday at the age that all old rockers die: 82) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ieyXqNpVciU/maxresdefault.jpg "NEW \* Rhapsody In The Rain - Lou Christie {Stereo} 1966") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieyXqNpVciU) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/2 "2025-06-19T12:03:08Z")
Jeez. . .lightning strikes again and again lately. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/3 "2025-06-19T12:24:46Z")
I can’t say I’ve ever consciously listened to any Lou Christie song, but I do know that he wrote and produced one of the greatest recordings of all time, the Tammys’ “Egyptian Shumba”. One of the wildest songs ever recorded. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Er8PN385PEA/hqdefault.jpg "The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8PN385PEA) ETA: I just listened to “The Gypsy Cried” and “Lightnin’ Strikes”. Wonderful voice, great music. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/4 "2025-06-19T12:49:00Z")
Oops! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/5 "2025-06-19T13:53:22Z")
RIP. I loved Lou Christie, first heard his songs from my childhood and have loved them to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/6 "2025-06-19T17:22:24Z")
Two faces had he. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/7 "2025-06-19T17:28:22Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > ETA: I just listened to “The Gypsy Cried” and “Lightnin’ Strikes”. Wonderful voice, great music. I just listened to the sampler “Lightnin’ Strikes: The Very Best Of The MGM Recordings” and it confirmed my first impression: exceptional voice, outstanding original songs, meticulous arrangements and production, highly qualified musicians, and the backup harmonies by the Tammys are nothing short of sensational and spectacular. I really missed out on him, and it’s a bit sad that I only started listening to him on the day he died. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/8 "2025-06-19T18:02:28Z")
IMHO, he was put on this earth to bubblegum-pop the heck out of I’m Gonna Make You Mine: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qqtXlZsX0JA/maxresdefault.jpg "Lou Christie 1969 - I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Stereo Mixed & Color) Betamax") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtXlZsX0JA&t=149s) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/9 "2025-06-19T18:43:22Z")
When did Nuke LaLoosh make a music video? ---
**Author:** ![Mortimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mortimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mortimus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/10 "2025-06-19T18:58:24Z")
Am I the only one who got Lou Christie and Frankie Valli confused? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/11 "2025-06-19T19:53:19Z")
I don’t know, but I always mix up Lou Christie and Tony Christie But just because of the common name, as I learned today Lou could sing rings around Tony. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-lou-christie/1019843/12 "2025-06-19T22:14:16Z")
Lou Christie was a talented performer who had a few years in the limelight, and a whole new career when promoters began packaging “Oldies” tours. Sorry to hear he’s gone. His “Rhapsody in the Rain” was actually banned in some cities because it was about S-E-X. I never knew who would have gone about officially “banning” a record. Probably radio stations in those cities were just too chicken and didn’t want the hassle of dealing with uptight parents complaining about it, so they just didn’t play it. Fortunately, in the city I grew up, our local Top 40 station didn’t care about such things. They played the hits and ignored any complaints. Their audience was us, not our parents.