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They released their second album, The New Christy Minstrels In Person, in February 1963. Their 1964 film score Today And Other Songs From ‘Advance To The Rear’ was the first complete ...
Back in the '60s at the height of their popularity, The New Christy Minstrels were often snubbed by the folk music purists. Their very popularity-they were a fixture on Andy Williams' TV show ...
I came across this New Christy Minstrels album cover in the Retro Records Flickr Group. Clothes of the paleo-future are often impractical but I really don’t mind what this woman is wearing. The ...
Randy Sparks, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and founder of the folk music group the New Christy Minstrels, died Feb. 11 at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. He was 90.
"Nice Time to Be Alive," released on July 16, conveys an appropriately upbeat message as the first album of original material he's recorded with his New Christy Minstrels "in decades." Need a break?
Randy Sparks and his New Christy Minstrels were central to the folk music revival of the early 1960s, garnering widespread acclaim for their harmonious tunes.
Randy Sparks, whose group the New Christy Minstrels was a huge part of the folk revival of the early 1960s, died February 11 at an assisted-living facility in San Diego.
The New Christy Minstrels got their first big break in 1962 when they released their debut album “Presenting The New Christy Minstrels” on Columbia Records. The project went on to win a Grammy ...
Randy Sparks, who founded the New Christy Minstrels during the 1960s and co-wrote the folk group’s biggest hit, “Green, Green,” died on Feb. 11. He was 90.
Randy Sparks, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels has died at the age of 90.
Randy Sparks, a creative impresario whose musical ensemble, the New Christy Minstrels, helped jump-start the folk revival of the early 1960s and launched the careers of performers like John Denver ...