Lou Christie(1943-2025)

Lou Christie was a popular singer from the Pittsburgh area, a former choirboy with no formal musical training, who hit it big in the early 1960s as a teenager with two songs featuring his very high-pitched falsetto voice, "The Gypsy Cried" and "Two Faces Have I." Several years later he hit it big again, with two more hits using his falsetto voice (though not as prominently as on his previous hits), "Lightning Strikes Again" and "Rhapsody in the Rain." The latter had the distinction of being one of the first songs to be banned from many radio stations because of its perceived "suggestive" lyrics.