LOU CHRISTIE

pop singer

“My parents were very into music. The whole family was musical, really. So I remember playing my mother’s big, heavy 78 records of Peggy Lee, Bing Crosby and Perry Como.

“Then I graduated to 45s and listened to the Four Lads, the Aces and a lot of R&B things, that were called race records back then.

“But as far as albums go, I think that one of the first 12-inch records that I ever bought was by the Platters. I love that album cover and to this day I can still see it, the way they were posed in that photograph. That was one of the first albums I bought, and I learned all the vocal parts on that record. So besides the lead vocals, I also sang all the background parts along with my sister.

“And then I bought records by the Everly Brothers, the Del Vikings and things like that. You know I think I still have those albums up in the attic of my mother’s house.”