Lou Christie

Well, there's also sort of not the same thing, but I've mentioned the song before.

It's Lou Christie with If My Car Could Only Talk.

where he's loaned his girlfriend his Jaguar while he's gone off.

What are you laughing

about? I was just thinking, sometimes people say they have trouble following us, and we just went from the Kinks to Tate McRae to Lou Christie.

This

is my musical life.

Well, I had a whole category of making out in the car songs.

In Morganville, New Jersey on September 12th at 6 p.m. I'll put it to you like this, Mr. 45.

Call me Lou Christie.

How about that? Excuse me.

My

But will he be on the piano for our sing-along? That's the question.

Into our Fan 500 to start us off this evening with Lou Christie.

MUSIC PLAYS

Every boy wants a girl he can trust to the very end.

I don't want to meet your kid Make his pin or do you in Or select you or accept you Or inspect you or reject you All I really want to do Is, baby, be friends with you Baby, be friends with you

Yes, my thoughts exactly.

So, the bird's there and all I really want to do before that, opening up another Thursday evening soiree, Lou Christie and Lightning Strikes.

So a very good evening to you and a very warm welcome along to the show.

He's walked in now.

He's singing Lightning Strikes, which was by Lou Christie back in the day.

Great song.

And he's not going to accept the nomination of his party for president of these United States.

And then Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys just two days later.

Lou Christie, Connie Francis, Chuck Mangione, Rick Davies from Supertramp.

ace freely from kiss chuck negron from three dog night remember his voice neil sadaka dash crofts from seals and crofts alan osmond of the osmonds clarence carter people bryson and then just recently david clayton thomas of blood sweat and tears one of my all-time favorite voices victor willis from the village people bonnie tyler freddie cannon who we just did as one a couple of podcasts ago Frank Beard, the drummer of ZZ Top.

I have to bring him up.

The merger saved the label from cash flow issues and paired Sinatra's roster with Warner's distribution network, although Sinatra retained a one-third ownership stake and a seat on the board.

In 1965, pop rock singer Lou Christie stepped into Olmstead Studios in New York City to record his signature hit, Lightning Strikes.

Legend has it that the head of his record label initially hated the track and threw it in the trash, forcing Christie to use his own money to get it radio airplay before it ultimately went to number one on the Billboard charts.

In 1970, the iconic British invasion band the Dave Clark Five officially announced that they were breaking up after more than a decade together.

It was the Beach Boys, Peter and Gordney, the Hollies.

Ian Whitcomb, The Happenings, and Pound 5, Lou Christie.

Wow.

So that was a show.

And as I said, that was her first hit.

hit.And track nine will be Lou Christie, I'm Gonna Make You Mine from 1969, backing vocals by Ellie Greenwich and Linda Scott.

But first, here's Chuck Berry [upbeat music] It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well.

You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle.

Nomi started performing these synthesizer heavy post-punk covers of 1960s pop standards.

So you have a classically trained vocalist doing Chubby Checker's The Twist and Lou Christie's Lightin' Strikes.

It's just brilliant.

It is.