{"id":2626,"date":"2010-03-22T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-25T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:15:31","slug":"thrifty-music-vol-19-hit-and-run-with-lou-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-19-hit-and-run-with-lou-christie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music, Vol. 19:  Hit-and-Run With Lou Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/orsin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/orsin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda glad we&#8217;ve had a specific request for some <strong>Lou Christie<\/strong> lately.  I was unsure about how &#8211;or whether &#8212; the two singles I found recently on a scouring trip would hold up amongst the real thrifty gems I have in store for you.  So, for now, I&#8217;m just going to pop these tunes up here, and let the chips fall where they may.  I for one like these songs, but&#8230; well, then again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my big probing thrifty question:  you may know that Lou Christie is the guy doing all the falsetto stuff in these songs.  Remarkable!  But, I ask: <em>Is anybody doing the male falsetto thing anymore?<\/em> Seems to me that even in the urban\/R&amp;B category, there are precious few artists singing like little girls anymore.  And I&#8217;ll add: I had no idea what Lou Christie looked like when I found that YouTube clip of Christie sporting the chest-wig and open vest Look. Has the day passed when a man could look so *<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectropop.com\/gallery\/v\/Boys\/Various\/Lou+Christie.jpg.html\" target=_blank>manly<\/a>* and still sing like a woman?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, here are two obscure Lou Christie tracks for you to enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Lou_Christie_Guitars_and_Bongos.mp3\">Lou Christie, &#8220;Guitars and Bongos&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Lou_Christie_Du_Ronda.mp3\">Lou Christie, &#8220;Du Ronda&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kinda glad we&#8217;ve had a specific request for some Lou Christie lately. I was unsure about how &#8211;or whether &#8212; the two singles I found recently on a scouring trip would hold up amongst the real thrifty gems I have in store for you. So, for now, I&#8217;m just going to pop these tunes <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-19-hit-and-run-with-lou-christie\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}