Lou Christie, “Lightnin’ Strikes” and “Rhapsody in the Rain” Singer, Dies at 82
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.
Radio Mans fave with Billy Ocean
Leslie Sebastian Charles MBE (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-born British singer and songwriter. Between 1976 and 1988, he had a series of hit songs in the UK and internationally.
Thursday in Broadcast History .. June 19th
IT WAS JUNE 19th … when Gillette became the first-ever network TV sponsor on NBC-TV’s coverage of the Billy Conn-Joe Lewis heavyweight boxing match,…
When the Goodson-Todman game show ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ with Garry Moore as host (pictured), debuted on CBS-TV…
When at the height of the folk music boom, the Kingston Trio debuted their own weekday show on CBS Radio…
and when Roberta Flack hosted her ABC-TV musical special, “Roberta Flack… The First Time Ever,” with The Blossoms and Seals & Crofts as guests.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
PSR’s 6pm Wednesday Night News with The News You Should Know…
[DS] Panics Over Military In The US Cities, EU Panics, Trump Is Now The Hunter – X22 Report
Radio Ratings Roudup, May 2025, Part 111
For the fifth straight survey, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON N/T KUOW was #1 6+, though with its first down book since DECEMBER (8.0-7.5).
‘Overpriced Talent’ and ‘Dead Weight’—CNN Faces a Brutal Corporate Purge
CNN is facing a significant shift in its future as Warner Bros. Discovery, its parent company, plans to spin off the network into a separate entity by 2026, according to multiple media industry sources.
New (old) host returning to ‘world famous’ Vancouver radio station
Just a week after we shared that significant changes were coming to Corus radio in Vancouver, we have more news to share, involving a familiar face returning to a “world-famous” station.