The year 1966 is often considered one of the greatest in the history of pop music, and scanning the list of artists who topped the Billboard Hot 100 will give you a pretty good idea why. It’s a list ...

A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits. By Alex Williams Lou Christie, who with his ...