Happy 78th Birthday, Lou Christie!

Wow! Who knew the former Governor of New Jersey was a hottie in his youth.

Lou Christie only got to be a star because he had such terrific backup singers. Bernadette Carroll, Denise Ferri and Peggy Davison transcended his ordinariness. Bernadette particularly.

I saw him perform a concert in Palm Springs about 10 years ago. The warm up comedian made a homophobic joke, I was pretty shocked about that. Lou was OK, but I wasn't very familiar with his work.

I saw him perform in London in a 60s show. It was the mid 90s. Bobby Vee, Lou Christie, Little Eva. et al Great show.

Lou Christie is secretly DL’s favorite closetgay. He had it all, but rarely displayed it. Has to be at least a dozen other posts on him here. Happy birthday, you once sexy hunk.

Another DL obsession I don't get, Lou Christie.

Every few months there seems to be a thread about this man.

He is ridiculously sexy in this.

There's no way he didn't realize, right? I mean, he must have felt it, right?

Moose knuckle was part of the early 70's look, R9.

(of course most of us didn't have *that much* moose knuckle to display..)

R10 - but didn't people notice? I mean it's nice that we can see through Lou's trousers that he isn't Jewish but it seems like most people would be a bit more modest.

This would have been the mid-1960's and the enormous trouser trout was clear even then.

Didn't he used to post here? Or was it just lots of posts about him?

That ass....

I've had the hots for that man...for decades....

Even for the 70s it was bold of him to display an ass completely covered in ass fur. That's not a bit of peach fuzz, that's a hair pie.

Oh, he could have me. So easily. WOOF

Can't with that pouty-Sal-Mineo goof face of his, though, sorry.

I love him with a beard

He makes me moister than a fresh snackcake.

I believe 19 of the 20 comments above are from OP, but nevertheless I will chime in. Lou Christie is most famous for his #1 song that practically everyone thinks is actually Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

R22, after I watched the clip at R17, I was just going to say that! I hear this on the oldies station every day or 2 and I've ALWAYS thought it was The Four Seasons!

I heard Lightning Strikes for the first time only a couple of weeks ago when a kind DLer here posted the clip from the movie Dead Kids. It's a fantastic song. But I have to say the narrator in the song sounds like a giant douche, haha. "Hey, so, uh, girl, can you wait over here for a few years until I'm ready to marry you? I just need to get myself off with as many other girls until then and I need you to accept that's just how I am".

I mean, sure, fuck. Fuck all over the place, but tell your girlfriend she has to just wait for you to get it out of your system is pretty dickish.

The song sure is fun though!

Until Lou goes full falsetto in "Lightning Strikes," his voice doesn't sound anything like Frankie Valli's, which is noticeably higher.

How open is he about his homosexuality?

He's not a fag! And I'm just the woman who can prove it!

He can't be gay, look here he is with a woman!

Any truth to the stories that he was an escort before breaking out as a singer?

With his anatomical gifts, it would be a crime if he didn't escort.

He did a disco single in the early 80s with Pia Zadora, it’s pretty good. Never charted but it was a good groove and Pia is fine on it.

I love how his enormous penis always snakes down the same pant leg in every photo.

I like how there's a secondary bulge revealing his testicles as well.

Real name: Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco

I can actually see the outline of his Sacco

Who wants to bet it’s Lou Christie himself propping himself up on this site?

There's no evidence of an "enormous trouser trout" in R12 (some of you are so delusional about bulges) but I do think his jacket is cool.

R36 - are you sure?

I want to suck on that large, thick, uncut tool.

That Lightning Strikes song is nice but I keep wanting the chord in the chorus to resolve somewhere that it eventually doesn't. Like maybe a Picardy third type of chord progression. If he had done that the song would've been more successful.

God he was hot guy when younger, very horny…

Why doesn't anyone ever talk about "Rhapsody in the Rain"? That was, and is, a big turn-on.....

Whoa R37, I can see his Sacco and Vinzettis!

R39, "I keep wanting the chord in the chorus to resolve somewhere that it eventually doesn't. Like maybe a Picardy third type of chord progression. If he had done that the song would've been more successful."

That may be the most Datalounge comment I've read this week, kudos!

I knew a guy that sported a bulge just like him and trust me, it was HUGE.

"I'm Gonna Make You Mine" (video version #1)

Version #2 with Lou in a hippie vest

I understand candid pics where there's more bulge showing than you would expect, but how is it that no one noticed in his publicity photos and album covers? Are we all just a bunch of perverts here at the DL and normal people don't notice huge crotches?

R47 Of course people noticed. But the general public 50 years ago was less prudish than today.

I think he looks like a Cro-Magnon with an underbite.

R49 - who cares what he looks like when he has an enormous uncircumcised appendage?

Did Lou Christie and Andy Warhol ever connect socially?

How does he look these days?

Why assume he's not cut? He's Italian, assume his parents were Catholic. Which means he was likely circumcised years ago, most Jews and Catholics circumcised their male babies.

I hate that whiny Lightning song

Lou performing in New Jersey, this was taken in in 2017.

R53 - Multiple correspondents on DL through the years have reported encounters with Lou and they all agree on the state of his crotch: big, very hairy, and uncut

Weird to see R17's post - Midnight Special was supposed to be live but clearly that is lip synced to the recording.

Christie's personal life - what we know of it - is a bit strange, maybe curious... when he was 15 yrs old he met Twyla Herbert and they became couple. He was 15, she was 20 years older than him! At 35, she got Christie's teenage cock and she had it for decades. They were together until her death is 2009.

Many stories over the years about Lou feeding his sizemeat to cocksuckers

He's 80 now and does a retro pop music podcast.

Thank you R57 I was puzzled by that. It was good lip synching but it was clearly the original recording.