Lightnin' Strikes

"Lightnin' Strikes"
Single by Lou Christie
from the album Lightnin' Strikes
B-side"Cryin' in the Streets"
ReleasedDecember 1965
RecordedSeptember 3, 1965
StudioOlmstead Studios, New York City, New York
GenrePop
Length3:05
LabelMGM
Songwriter(s)Lou Christie, Twyla Herbert
Lou Christie singles chronology
"How Many Teardrops"
(1963)
"Lightnin' Strikes"
(1965)
"Outside the Gates of Heaven"
(1966)

"Lightnin' Strikes" is a song written by Lou Christie and Twyla Herbert, and recorded by Christie on the MGM label. It was a hit in 1966, making it first to No. 1 in Canada in January 1966 on the RPM Top Singles chart,[1] then to No. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 in February, No. 3 on the New Zealand Listener chart in May,[2] and No. 11 on the UK Record Retailer chart. It attained RIAA certification on March 3, 1966, garnering gold status for selling over one million copies.

  1. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-02-21. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  2. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-09-29.