I remember being a 15 year old kid going to Hartwick; New York to see Lou Christie , it was the thrill of my life. He walked right up to me and sang to me . I came from a home where the most love I ever got from my Dad was a fist in my face and just before I saw the concert I got beat again. Anyhow seeing Lou made me forget the beating for that night. I’m 70 and I will never forget his great performance
Lou Christie is celebrating his 80th birthday today, February 19, 2023. He is an American singer-songwriter known for several hits in the 1960s, including his 1966 US chart-topper "Lightnin' Strikes," (1965) "The Gypsy Cried" (1962),"Two Faces Have I," (1963) and "Rhapsody in the Rain" (1966), among others. He was born in Pennsylvania on February 19, 1943
The tune is very 4 Seasons-like but honestly, their two voices were very different. The falsetto part might be what fooled you but their natural voices...nope.
I was in Basic Training and Tech School when this song came out. I had just left the young lady that I really loved back in Pennsylvania. I went home for 30 days then left for a tour in Japan. This song went with me throughout the next years when she came to me in Germany and we went to Switzerland and got married. That song STILL IS ONE OF MY TOP SONGS. It still brings tears to my eyes at 76 years old, remembering those years when I fell in love with that young lady.
I can't help thinking as I see these ladies dancing so free, so much emotion, fun, joy, happiness, truly getting into it and being lost in the song, that many are either passed away or very old. I wonder, when we see old folks today if we knew that some of them were in videos like this and if we knew that, just how much we would look at them differently. Now! Heck who am I kidding, this was just a bit b4 my time by about 10 years, but I am one of the old folks I am talking about! ha ha. Time surely flies and there are wonderful memoires. The only problem is how are we able to share them with these youngsters out there? lol
I saw him at a show in Miami~~He stood right next to me and smiled! I looked into those gorgeous eyes and couldn't say anything!! He was gorgeous~Watching his later videos he was quite the showman! He really let loose with his dancing!! One of The Greatest Teen Idols in the 60's! Bravo Lou! ⚡🎤💞
My husband and I saw Lou Christie in a revival concert at the CNE in Toronto in the 80s....he stopped the show dead! The more famous singers that followed were almost a let down. What a Voice!
I always thought of this as 'the pllayers song' . They lyrics are all about a guy manipulating a girl to get her into bed, promising to marry her if she forgives him cheatting with other girls in the future, hence 'If she's put together fine and she's reading my mind, I can't stop,'. Then she tells him to stop, but he doesnt so she tells him agaiin because he doesn't want to becaise 'nature's taken over his one track mind'. I'ts a song about cheaing on your girlfriend and yet its become regarded as a love song. that makes me laugh.
I love this song. When I was a kid I heard this song every morning for several weeks, as I dozed in the bathtub, before breakfast and the school bus. It's a story of raging teenage hormones and the craziness -- schizophrenia? -- thereby induced.
Absolutely loved this song as a kid. Forgot about it and just randomly started singing the chorus like an hour ago. Has been on repeat ever since!💪🏿 Still a bop!🔥
Every time this video appears on the Dutch music channel 192TV ( 24/7 of music oldies ) I look for the remote control to play it loud. Lou, you’re the best !
Your awesome Lou ! You were given a fantastic gift with your falsetto. I remember being a little girl around my older brothers playing your song and hearing the lightening striking again part. I totally loved 🥰 this song. Your also very kind to your fans and I’m definitely one 😻🌹❤️✌️
I was 11 when this song came out Lou had a brilliant voice all the old lyrics to these song had meaningful words the best ever music ERA 🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I didn't even know this song until about a year ago when I started watching the Music Choice Oldies Channel--they have it in fairly heavy rotation. Now I can't get it out of my head.
I was 9 in 66. Can't remember.if i heard the song. I would have loved it.. I believe i heard."I'm Gonna Make You Mine" first in 1970, then LS. Anywho, love Lou!!
I've heard this song so many times since I was a wee child in the 60s--I always loved the chorus singing it in the car and thinking it was the Four Seasons! But someone posted it on Instagram today and I just now really listened to the lyrics! What a horny teenage boy song! Hilarious! Perfect set up for the following year which would be 1967 and the Summer of Love!
I remember being a 15 year old kid going to Hartwick; New York to see Lou Christie , it was the thrill of my life. He walked right up to me and sang to me . I came from a home where the most love I ever got from my Dad was a fist in my face and just before I saw the concert I got beat again. Anyhow seeing Lou made me forget the beating for that night. I’m 70 and I will never forget his great performance
I'm so sorry, Debra. Harsh memories even so many years later. God bless you.
That's horrible. I pray for your emotional recovery from that trama. :(
Music is so healing.....here's a hug........
So sorry you have such memories! I just said a prayer for you. That just breaks my heart!
Wow. I’m so sorry you went through that
2022 still a hit!!! Thank you Lou!!!
Just found this song out, took my mom to a 50 60s cover concert, Love it!
How about 2024
I hear this song in the grocery store and it rocks me. This song is insane.
I was nine when this song came out I'm 65 today and I still love it. Ended 2023
Perfectly written song. Man he is so damn good.
and not bad to look at either
9 years old when this song came out. Good gawd where has the time gone.
I was 3.
Lou Christie is celebrating his 80th birthday today, February 19, 2023. He is an American singer-songwriter known for several hits in the 1960s, including his 1966 US chart-topper "Lightnin' Strikes," (1965) "The Gypsy Cried" (1962),"Two Faces Have I," (1963) and "Rhapsody in the Rain" (1966), among others. He was born in Pennsylvania on February 19, 1943
My oldest sister use to play this all the time. Brings back good memories RIP Patty ♡♡
Live by rules, not in this lifetime
❤❤❤
Captures the entire 60’s decade in one song doesn’t it
#1 on Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966. Everybody loved this song
I sure did.
I'm a 70's kid and I always thought that this was Frankie Valle. Now I know better.
Same here. :)
Me too
The tune is very 4 Seasons-like but honestly, their two voices were very different. The falsetto part might be what fooled you but their natural voices...nope.
@@andreaschmall5560 Agreed.
@@andreaschmall5560that's what fooled me cause I ALWAYS thought this was the 4 seasons till NOW!!!
I love this version of Lou it is wonderful and it makes me happy whenever I listen to it and the choreography of the girls is great!
same !,,,makes me feel good !..like dancing happy !
Qualitiee👏🍀🏴💯👏
What a great song!!
I was in Basic Training and Tech School when this song came out. I had just left the young lady that I really loved back in Pennsylvania. I went home for 30 days then left for a tour in Japan. This song went with me throughout the next years when she came to me in Germany and we went to Switzerland and got married. That song STILL IS ONE OF MY TOP SONGS. It still brings tears to my eyes at 76 years old, remembering those years when I fell in love with that young lady.
Guy, the song is about how he can’t stop banging underage girls
Great story! (I've visited Basel, Switzerland several years ago.) Congratulations on your journey together through life!
I'm 60 years old. This is one of my all time favorite songs.
Me to. I'm 60.❤
This might be the best pop record ever made.
Great song. Also featured in the 1981 film 'Strange Behaviour', in a party scene that is perhaps the best scene in any film ever.
True love is like LIGHTENING! Such a great song. Thanks Lou for all the thrills at hearing your lovely voice throughout my whole life....
I saw him in concsrt in 1999, and he sounded just as good as his records.
Great song!! Gotta miss sixties music.
I can't help thinking as I see these ladies dancing so free, so much emotion, fun, joy, happiness, truly getting into it and being lost in the song, that many are either passed away or very old. I wonder, when we see old folks today if we knew that some of them were in videos like this and if we knew that, just how much we would look at them differently. Now! Heck who am I kidding, this was just a bit b4 my time by about 10 years, but I am one of the old folks I am talking about! ha ha. Time surely flies and there are wonderful memoires. The only problem is how are we able to share them with these youngsters out there? lol
AM Radio was always on in my mom's house. I would perk up and listen to this song all the time at age 5.
I've wondered the same thing at times.
lovely song, I remember my first girlfriend I was 14 she was 15, R.I.P., great memories, thank you. winter, 1966
I saw him at a show in Miami~~He stood right next to me and smiled! I looked into those gorgeous eyes and couldn't say anything!! He was gorgeous~Watching his later videos he was quite the showman! He really
let loose with his dancing!! One of The Greatest Teen Idols in the 60's! Bravo Lou! ⚡🎤💞
And sexy. That Lou! I wish this song had an extended version.
Love the dancing
I'd kill for that cardigan. Too cool.
Lighting is Striking Again and Under my Thumb are 2 of the most male chauvinistic songs ever produced. I love them both.
My husband and I saw Lou Christie in a revival concert at the CNE in Toronto in the 80s....he stopped the show dead! The more famous singers that followed were almost a let down. What a Voice!
10 years old in 66 and my sister loved this song and so do I
Me too 10. 😅
He's a perfect vocalist. Powerful fast paced, clear. Number 1 of them.
Such a brilliant song and such an amazing voice
I always thought of this as 'the pllayers song' . They lyrics are all about a guy manipulating a girl to get her into bed, promising to marry her if she forgives him cheatting with other girls in the future, hence 'If she's put together fine and she's reading my mind, I can't stop,'. Then she tells him to stop, but he doesnt so she tells him agaiin because he doesn't want to becaise 'nature's taken over his one track mind'. I'ts a song about cheaing on your girlfriend and yet its become regarded as a love song. that makes me laugh.
Great song. OMG, Lou was packing some!
It’s 2023, still going strong
The ONLY song I know of that combines brazen SLEAZE with the charisma of ROMANCE! Amazing. 😳
What a masterpiece!!💥👍🏻👌🏼👏🏻
I like watching these old videos. The girls back then were all natural and no tattoos, Botox or filler, just beautiful.
Surprised it doesn't have 8 million views. Brilliant Pop classic.
This song is a masterpiece. Written by Lou, as most of his songs were.
Love that sort of doo wop vibe on the pre chorus. Loved this as a kid.
Lou and Twyla Herbert.
@@jwandhistools With the baritone sax I hear a little Motown❤
I love this song.
When I was a kid I heard this song every morning for several weeks, as I dozed in the bathtub, before breakfast and the school bus.
It's a story of raging teenage hormones and the craziness -- schizophrenia? -- thereby induced.
So cool, how I wish it was '66 again sometimes.
I ❤❤❤ The music of Lou Christie i have many of his 1960s and 1970s 7" vinyl records in my collection. The Go Gos are fantastic ❤❤❤
I was 6 a hit in bklyn coney island m all dancing
Absolutely loved this song as a kid. Forgot about it and just randomly started singing the chorus like an hour ago. Has been on repeat ever since!💪🏿 Still a bop!🔥
I absolutely love this guy!!❤
Every time this video appears on the Dutch music channel 192TV ( 24/7 of music oldies ) I look for the remote control to play it loud. Lou, you’re the best !
I done this song at karaoke with my lady friends the place went crazy, People sad wow perfect. Love you Lou
Hubba-HUBBA! 🎇🧨🎆 What a handsome Guy 💕😻 & he can sing, too! & he even wrote THIS!?! WOW! 💘🫠🍀
Your awesome Lou ! You were given a fantastic gift with your falsetto. I remember being a little girl around my older brothers playing your song and hearing the lightening striking again part. I totally loved 🥰 this song. Your also very kind to your fans and I’m definitely one 😻🌹❤️✌️
My favorite part of this song is the part between when it begins and ends
I was 5 and obsessed with this song. Haven’t heard it in ages. Still love it. 💕
I was 11 when this song came out Lou had a brilliant voice all the old lyrics to these song had meaningful words the best ever music ERA 🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was 7yrs old in '66 and this song has Always been a Favorite🌹 07/17/2022
Great singer and song. He has a good range in his voice to hit those high notes.
This still kills!!!!
I am so stoned! I remember this when I was a very young child it was lighting and all I heard in my head was this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣……peaceful calmer times.
I love this song
I always thought this was Frankie Valli
Saw him live at an "oldies" show in Toronto way back when. He is an amazing live performer
When it came out I was 13...now I'm 71 and can still listening to his nice tune which sounds like from the 4 seasons...We have 2024 in May...🙂
I didn't even know this song until about a year ago when I started watching the Music Choice Oldies Channel--they have it in fairly heavy rotation. Now I can't get it out of my head.
Great singer, great song, great backing singers.
Love his tunes
Oh my it's still sounds brilliant.
Iwas 9 years when I listened this song and till this day I love it.
Got to be one of the best choruses ever!!!!❤
A monster of a hit!
LOVE ❤THE DANCERS
Interesting dance styles lol love this song
Common for the era.
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And the most famous example...
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Brings me back when I was 12........
This just made my day I turned that frown upside down and I am straight up dancing
Saw him at Expo 86 in Vancouver BC. Sounded great.
The perfect pop song
I was 9 in 66. Can't remember.if i heard the song. I would have loved it.. I believe i heard."I'm Gonna Make You Mine" first in 1970, then LS. Anywho, love Lou!!
Great song enjoyed his music 🎶🎶🎶🎶 keep rockin Lou christie
Loved this song as a kid. Catchy chorus.
God he's gorgeous!
Good Quality Music
Lou Christie born Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco from PA.
Wow, these were the norms I grew up with. Forgive and forget.
What bad dancing too!
A powerful record.
Vintage video. Great memories of 1966🌹👍
The best of the times !
Original disco here. Bee Gees
He reminds me of that dinosaur boss bad guy in NES Mario II...
Lips and mouth movements match very well. Singing.
Legend ! Keep going putting out great music !
This song rules!!
I love this!
My father had that sweater in 65.
Is it just me or does Lou really sound like Frankie Valli when he hits those high notes?
It is just you
For a long time I thought this song was done by the four seasons.
@S.E.729 easy midtake to make
❤this Song🎶Lou! Reminds Me of Dad from Brooklyn🤌🏼
Nice song 👍🏼
Klaus Nomi's version is also cool
DAD RIP BUT HE DROVE US SISTER AND I TO EVERY ROCK CONCERT
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thanks from the bottom of my heart 💜 cuz I am rocking😅😂
love it
Simply a Great song! Classic! Timeless! Thank you Lightening Lou!
Lightning Strikes & Two Faces Have I Two of my favorites.
When he winds up with that Iiiiiii can't stop!, I get goosies. What a voice!
Love the tubular bells imitating the church bells.
I like your Channel Lou Christie I like you
I've heard this song so many times since I was a wee child in the 60s--I always loved the chorus singing it in the car and thinking it was the Four Seasons! But someone posted it on Instagram today and I just now really listened to the lyrics! What a horny teenage boy song! Hilarious! Perfect set up for the following year which would be 1967 and the Summer of Love!