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Has Been Inducted Into A Personal Message From Lou Christie: It is a great honor to be inducted into the Hit Parade Hall Of Fame. I want to thank all my fans and friends for their continued support. What a nice feeling to see how the music of our time has kept us all together. Starting on a small label in Pittsburgh, having my Dad drive me to record hops for Clark Race, Chuck Brinkman or "Pork the Tork"...my path was already chosen all the way up the charts and around the world. They say vinyl is making a comeback - I'm ready, are yuns?
Thank you, again and again and again! Black Kids have recorded EGYPTIAN SHUMBA. See the video Here
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Lou Christie Sacco March 29, 2008 Featuring:
The Previously Unreleased SUMMER SNOW - Lou's intended third Roulette
single which had been suppressed for 25 full years (1963 - 1988), Original CDs: CAPITOL JAX (Jacksonville, IL pressing plant) around the disc's inner spine; Back cover WITHOUT the oval Rhino logo Sample 1988 CD Reviews:
Dave DiMartino, Musician Magazine
New York Daily News
Mark Jenkins, 'Original Sinner,'
Chuck Eddy, Boston Phoenix September 15, 2007 October 30, 2007 Ellen Foley Lou Christie
Wednesday August 8, 2007 (Run mouse over Denise Ferri October 3, 2007 But with so much glorious competition, what is the song that gets my nod for the controversial title of best girl group song ever? Well, readers, it has to be the breathtaking, foot-stomping, soul-shaking, Egyptian Shumba by the Tammys. Who? I hear you say. The little known Tammys were originally backing vocalists for Mr Tenor Man himself, Lou Christie, before they broke out on their own and recorded the mesmerising Egyptian Shumba in 1964. From the very first bar you instantly realise you are hearing something special, and as soon as the girls belt out the classic line, "Last night I dreamt I was on the Nile, dancing with you Egyptian style", all hell breaks loose. The instruments start freaking out, the production goes into overdrive, and the girls start screaming and grunting until you no longer know where you are.
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LOU CHRISTIE & December 7, 2006 ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: A labor of love from Sheryl Farber and co-producer Gary Stewart, ONE KISS follows in the tradition of Rhino's revelatory, genre-defining boxed sets like Nuggets, Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Box Of '60s Soul, and Loud, Fast & Out Of Control: The Wild Sounds Of '50s Rock by bringing listeners dozens of shoulda-been-classics. And Rhino has given this boxed set the kind of over-the-top packaging it deserves. ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: GIRL GROUP SOUNDS, LOST & FOUND comes in a mod black-and-white hatbox, while the four digipak CDs inside resemble '60s makeup compacts, and the book, which contains essays by Gerri Hirshey and Gene Sculatti and a track-by-track by Sheila Burgel, looks like a girl's diary.
It's not just that this girl group's gone wilder than any garage band on the list -- it's that they're possessed. The Tammys bop hard and bratty, but by the chorus they're literally growling, barking, and squealing like sexed-up hyenas; in the bridge you can hear them shudder and jerk their way into a frenzy. It's their party and they'll scream if they want to. The Chiffons, Lesley Gore, The Shirelles, The Ronettes, The Angels, they're all here; however, the secret weapon of the set is the songs you would never hear if not for Rhino. For instance, "Egyptian Shumba" by The Tammys is one of the most peculiar girl group songs I've ever heard, sounding like the modern freak folkers the Animal Collective produced the song as The Tammys' Chipmunk-harmonizing bleeds into refrains of backup singers mimicking shrieking monkeys. Catchy and eclectic, it would blow the minds of indie-music blogs everywhere if released today.
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However, some of the most-fun moments on the set are the tracks that are nearly unbelievable in that they exist at all. The Tammys' insane "Egyptian Shumba" is filled with yelps and whoops that are nearly orgasmic. Add to that "The Peanut Duck," a dance single so odd that it didn't find release until a few years ago and the singer has still not been identified.
But for all this talk about love, the real prize on One Kiss Can Lead To Another is "Egyptian Shumba," a goofball dance track about boogying along the Nile constructed by falsetto weirdo Lou Christie around a set of voices even squeakier than his own. They belonged to a group called The Tammys, and their squiggly harmonies and delirious yelps seem to point toward Rough Trade punks like Liliput and the Raincoats, and even more directly toward the B-52s' Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson.
And then, of course, you've got your weirder gems that never could have been a hit -- "Egyptian Shumba" by The Tammys chief among them. It's the box set of the year, and would be even if the package were only half as brilliant.
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Lou Christie From Norway Gypsy green eyes of a visionary
He's got something for me, something for you
Pouty red lips. Tight leather pants
He's got something for me, something for you
Goldmine Lou Christie: Released HEARING IS BELIEVING: Billboard
Nitzsche is best-known as the arranger / conductor on most of Phil Spector's greatest hits, piano player for the early Rolling Stones and a studio foil for Neil Young. Nitzsche, who died in 2000, was a pervasive presence in Los Angeles pop music. This 26-song compilation foresakes his many hits for obscure gems and fabulous no-hit wonders. It is music of bipolar extremes: The cocky confidence of Gene McDaniels' "Walk With a Winner" is countered by the suicidal wail of "But Not for Me," which you wouldn't guess is Bobby Darin. Among other surprises: Lou Christie goes psychedelic, Frankie Laine is nearly hip, and Round Robin offers one of the catchiest novelty songs ever ("Kick That Little Foot Sally Ann"). Distributed in the United States by DNA and City Hall, this is music from a phantom jukebox that sounds collectively like a parallel secret history of pop. Released
Early Girls, Volume 4 Released Salute! w/ DREAM "Salute! The World War II Tribute Album" features popular songs from the World War II era performed by some of America's leading contemporary recording artists. The mission of The Tribute Album is to provide a lasting tribute to the exceptional generation of Americans who served both in the trenches as well as on the home front through a pivotal moment of American history. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Album will be donated to the American Experience Foundation to benefit America's veterans. Released
01. I Still Wanna Rock & Roll With You
Released July 6, 2004 The 'Before Sunset' Soundtrack (combining tracks from 'Before Sunrise,' for which there was never a soundtrack album) is a romantic musical journey, featuring TRAPEZE by LOU CHRISTIE plus tracks by the film's star Julie Delpy, Johann Sebastian Bach and Henry Purcell plus Igor Kipnis, Loud, Harald Waiglein, Laurence Dreyfus and Kathy McCarty. 'Before Sunrise' (the film) appeared on many 'Best of 2004' lists. See the excellent Julie Delpy Tribute Site
Released November 12, 2002 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop
Released September 17, 2002 Rock, Rhythm & Doo Wop: The Concert
As reviewed in the April / May 2002 issue of Country Music magazine, w/ Live Radio & TV shows and the Singles "If Again" (Written by Doug Kershaw © May 5, 1957, Admiral 45-1006) & "Hillbilly Beat" (Admiral 45-15000, May 1956) Obituary: Abbie Neal Abbie Neal, one of the sweetest TV cowgirls of the 1950s, sang about landing "EZ Credit," rolling with the "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "Ridin' Down to Santa Fe." In her day, Miss Neal was a world-class fiddler and star of several live TV and radio shows throughout the Pittsburgh region. Miss Neal died Feb. 15 in Reno, Nev., of a cancer-related illness. She was 85. Born in Brookville, Jefferson County, Miss Neal learned to play music at an early age and by 7 was playing duets with her brother at nearby churches and grange halls. After winning a fiddle contest at 10, she studied classical violin and performed with the Du Bois Symphony. Her love of country music was overwhelming, however, and in two years she traded violin-style bowing for down-home fiddle scratching and joined Cowboy Phil's country band on Greensburg's WHJB radio, where she worked for 13 years. Miss Neal later led the Wilkens Westernaires, a radio band named for their jewelry store sponsor. As the leader of Abbie Neal and Her Ranch Girls, she hosted a show on WAMO radio when it played country, and starred on several daily TV shows at Johnstown's WJAC, Pittsburgh's WENS and WDTV, precursor of KDKA. In her Western-fringed skirt and Stetson hat, she projected a kindly, maternal image, her younger band mates respectfully flocking around her like chicks to a mother hen. Following a traffic accident that left her hospitalized for 16 weeks, Miss Neal moved to Nevada in 1958 and headlined at resorts in Las Vegas, Reno and Elko. She won a national women's fiddle championship, and played steel and acoustic guitar. Miss Neal performed for U.S. soldiers in USO shows in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Hawaii, Greenland and five tours through Vietnam. After a long stint at Las Vegas' Golden Nugget, Miss Neal retired in 1975. One of her early fans, 7-year-old Lugee Sacco, of Glenwillard, never forgot her. By 1966, Sacco had changed his name to Lou Christie and struck gold with his No. 1 hit "Lightning Strikes." In the late 1970s, after learning that she had retired in Reno, he called her. They forged a 20-year friendship that continued to her death. "Every morning before I went to school, I called her when she was a DJ on WAMO and requested 'If Again' by Doug Kershaw," said Christie, from his home in New York City. "I belonged to her fan club when I was 8 or 9 years old and I remember my dad taking me to the Allegheny County Fair and the WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling to see her. There was a kindness and sincerity that she projected, like the mother who didn't holler at you." Christie said the tight vocal harmonies of his 1960s hits, including "Lightning Strikes," "The Gypsy Cried" and "Two Faces Have I," were inspired by Miss Neal and her country-western contemporaries. "Because of her influence, I started listening to Hank Williams and other people in country who did those twangy, two-part harmonies," he said. "From there I graduated to The Everly Brothers and other bands, but my music has always had lots of vocal harmonies, and that goes back to Abbie Neal." After years of correspondence, Christie assembled dozens of snippets from Miss Neal's TV, radio and stage performances and produced what became her final album, "Abbie Neal and Her Ranch Girls," available only on his Web site at www.louchristie.com. "She was a true pioneer of country music," Christie said. "She was a very modest, very wise woman. Everything that she did she approached with an honesty, sincerity and kindness that you don't see anymore." Reno country musician dies after lengthy illness
by Guy Clifton Abbie Neal, a country musician who entertained audiences in Reno and around the world for more than 50 years, died Feb. 15 at Manor Care Health Services after a lengthy illness. She was 85. A Pennsylvania native, Neal moved to Reno in 1958 when her band Abbie Neal and Her Ranch Girls were booked to play at the Mapes Hotel. She ended up calling the Silver State home and played regularly at the Riverside and Holiday hotels, plus venues at Lake Tahoe, Elko, Ely and Las Vegas. It soon dawned on me that there was the Mustang Ranch (brothel), so we changed the name to the Abbie Neal Show, she joked during a 2000 interview in the Reno Gazette-Journal. Her music career started when she was 8 years old after her brother taught her to play the violin. At age 12, she played for square dances with her brothers and cousins. A multi-talented musician, she specialized in the violin and steel guitar. Between 1944 and 1965, she performed for U.S. military troops in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Hawaii, Greenland and in the South Pacific. She toured Vietnam five times. She ended her career in 1975 after a stint at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. After her retirement, she and several other retired musicians continued to entertain senior citizens at convalescent facilities, hospitals and senior centers in the Truckee Meadows. Before moving to Nevada, Neal had a radio show at WAMO in Homestead, Pa., and her own television show in Pittsburgh. In 1951, she was injured in an accident and spent 16 weeks in the hospital. Her fans in Pennsylvania rallied to help her. I got over 600 hankies and little kids were sending in their allowance to help me pay my hospital bills, she said during the 2000 interview. We donated that money to help the crippled children. The handkerchiefs were used to make a bedspread. She remained popular with her fans after retirement. In 1998, her longtime friend Joyce Linscott of Reno threw a surprise 80th birthday party for her. Neal received more than 700 birthday cards and dozens of flowers from family, friends and fans. She also received birthday greetings from President and Mrs. Clinton and letters from Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy. Neal was married to University of Nevada Hall of Famer Merrill H. (Mac) McKinnon for 27 years until his death in 1995. She is survived by a step-son, Barry McKinnon. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Congregational Church, 627 Sunnyside Dr., Reno.
Lou Christie's 'Lightnin' Strikes' in the Turner Network Television (TNT) Original movie BAD APPLE May 23, 2004 April 18, 2004 April 18, 2004 The Rubinoos' "Crimes Against Music" released in the US by Zip Records May 1, 2003. Released in Japan
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