The Complete Co & Ce/Roulette Recordings

by Lou Christie

Overview

Although he had made some good, and interesting, doo-wop records around his native Pittsburgh, this 21-track collection is where the career of Lou Christie begins in earnest. Still working out of Pittsburgh with his collaborator/mentor Twyla Herbert, the majority of these sides have a homegrown, small-label session feel to them, even if they were almost all simultaneously issued for national consumption on the Roulette imprint. Christie's otherworldly falsetto wails on the two big hits here ("The Gypsy Cried" and "Two Faces Have I"), which need no introduction, but his trademarked sound is equally at home and just as fine on B-sides and album filler like "Red Sails In the Sunset," "Tears On My Pillow," "Tonight I Fell In Love" and "When You Dance." The previously unreleased version of the rocker "Money" yields a quirky take to the standard, but everything on here is vintage and prime Lou Christie, a true song stylist who just happened to also write a solid third of the material compiled here. An important, but often neglected, chapter in rock & roll's history that deserves a wider hearing. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	07/07/1998
Label:	Taragon Records
UPC:	0783785104223
Rank:	53795

Tracks

1. The Gypsy Cried
2. Red Sails in the Sunset
3. Two Faces Have I
4. All That Glitters Isn't Gold
5. Stay
6. Tears on My Pillow
7. Have I Sinned
8. Summer Snow
9. When You Dance
10. Money (That's What I Want)
11. Tonight I Fell in Love
12. To Be Loved (Forever)
13. How Many Tear Drops
14. Mr. Tenor Man
15. You and I (Have a Right to Cry)
16. Shy Boy
17. It Can Happen
18. There They Go
19. Maybe You'll Be There
20. You May Be Holding My Baby
21. Outside the Gates of Heaven

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lou Christie   Primary Artist,Vocals
Teacho Wiltshire   Conductor
Garry Sherman   Conductor

Technical Credits

Jimmie Crane   Composer
Nick Cenci   Producer
Teacho Wiltshire   Arranger
Jimmy Kennedy   Composer
Berry Gordy, Jr.   Composer
Sylvester Bradford   Composer
Bert Russell   Composer
Bill Inglot   Transfers
Eliot Goshman   Producer,Mastering
Janie Bradford   Composer
Rube Bloom   Composer
Phil Margo   Composer
Hugh Williams   Composer
Sammy Gallop   Composer
Mitch Margo   Composer
Al Lewis   Composer
Hank Medress   Composer
George Goldner   Producer
Andrew Jones   Composer,Composer
Bert Berns   Producer
Lou Christie   Composer
Twyla Herbert   Composer
Willie Munson   Composer
J. Jones   Composer
Harry Young   Liner Notes
Garry Sherman   Arranger
Carl McGinnis   Composer
Ted Goodloe   Composer
Earl Jackson   Composer
Gregory Carrol   Composer
Maurice Williams   Composer