The Pittsburgh native, famed for his distinctive falsetto, also had hits with “The Gypsy Cried,” “Two Faces Have I,” “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” and more.
by Mike Barnes
Hollywood Reporter
June 18, 2025
Lou Christie, the singer-songwriter who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 with the lush “Lightnin’ Strikes” and had another top 20 hit that year with the (for its time) sexually explicit “Rhapsody in the Rain,” died Wednesday. He was 82.
Christie died at his home in his native Pittsburgh after a short illness, his wife, Francesca, told The Hollywood Reporter.
With his signature falsetto, Christie broke out with two songs in 1963 that he penned with longtime collaborator Twyla Herbert — “The Gypsy Cried” and “Two Faces Have I” — and he made it into the top 10 again with “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” in 1969.
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