Lou Christie

Singer Lou Christie had two big hits in 1963 - "The Gypsy Cried" (#24) and "Two Faces Have I" (#6) - in the quavery falsetto style popularized by Del Shannon and Frankie Valli. Three years later he returned to the charts with "Lightnin' Strikes" (#1, 1966).

In Pennsylvania the young singer won a scholarship to Moon Township High School, where he studied classical music and vocal technique and...