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 ...

The album includes all of the Minstrels' greatest hits: live recordings of "Denver" and "(The Story of) The Preacher and the Bear" from 1962, McGuire's featured vocal on "Green, Green," a 1963 ...

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 ...

In 1964, the group starred in its own musical variety show sponsored by Ford Motor Company. It was titled “Ford Presents the New Christy Minstrels” and ran for five weeks before it was cancelled.

When the New Christy Minstrels originated, Sparks' group had nine hours of Hollywood studio time to record 15 songs. Time's not an issue in a hotel room in Lodi. Or in Yanceyville, N.C.

American musician Randy Sparks, best known as the founder and driving force behind the beloved New Christy Minstrels, passed away at the age of 90 on February 11 in San Diego. His son, Kevin ...

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. His son ...

The fire still burns in Randy Sparks, whose Grammy Award-winning group the New Christy Minstrels is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The band will perform in a benefit concert at 3 p.m ...

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. He was 90. His son, Kevin ...

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. His son, Kevin ...