Lou Christie (born Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, February 19 1943, in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter best known for a string of pop hits in the 1960s. Life and career Raised in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Luigi Sacco traveled to New York after graduating from Moon Area High School and found work as a session vocalist. He also recorded a few unsuccessful discs of his own for various record labels in both New York and Pittsburgh. One of his singles, 1963's "The Gypsy Cried" was released in 1962 on the tiny C&C label and unexpectedly credited to "Lou Christie" without Sacco's permission or consent. Sacco had been working on a list of potential stage names, and he has stated that he hated the name for decades afterwards: "I was pissed off about it for 20 years. I wanted to keep my name and be a one-named performer, just 'Lugee'."http://www.classicbands.com/christie.html "The Gypsy Cried" features the v

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