Lou Christie, “Lightnin’ Strikes” and “Rhapsody in the Rain” Singer, Dies at 82

Italian American Lou Christie, born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco, the singer-songwriter who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 with the lush “Lightnin’ Strikes” and had another top 20 hit that year with the (for its time) sexually explicit “Rhapsody in the Rain,” died Wednesday. He was 82. Christie died at his home in his native Pittsbu...