Lou Christie
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
After relocating to New York and landing session work as a backing vocalist, Christie wrote and recorded a follow-up, Two Faces Have I; it landed in the Top Ten, but shortly after its release he began a two-year stint in the Army. He returned to action in 1966, picking up right where he left off with his biggest hit yet -- the lush, chart-topping Lightnin Strikes. Christies next smash, 1966s Rhapsody in the Rain, was notorious for being among the more sexually explicit efforts of the period. After brief stays with Colpix and Columbia, he next moved to the Buddah label, scoring one last Top Ten hit in 1969 with Im Gonna Make You Mine. Drug problems plagued Christie during the early 1970s, and after getting clean at a London rehab clinic, he dropped out of music, working variously as a ranch hand, offshore oil driller and carnival barker; by the 1980s, he was making the occasional appearance on oldies package tours, and in 1997 issued Pledging My Love, his first new material in over a quarter-century.
