THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS

'The New Christy Minstrels' is an American folk music group that came to prominence in the 1960s. The name deliberately evoked Christy's Minstrels, an enormously popular 19th century blackface minstrel group founded by Edwin Pearce Christy.

Contents

Career

Past members

Partial discography

External links

Career

Formed by Randy Sparks in 1961, the group had several Top 40 folk music hits, including "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin'". Current (March 2007) members of the group include Randy Sparks, Barry McGuire, Clarence Treat, Jackie Miller, Art Podell, Dolan Ellis, Becky Jo Benson and Bill Boycott.
The New Christy Minstrels' film score for the 1964 comedy movie, ''Advance to the Rear'', featuring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens, was the only complete soundtrack ever made in the folk music style. The score is notable for the hit standard "Today" and several others, including "This Old Riverboat" and "Company of Cowards" (the original title). The soundtrack album has been re-released on CD as ''Today''.

Past members

Some of the group's most famous alumni include:-

★ Kenny Rogers

★ The Byrds' Gene Clark

★ Kim Carnes

★ The Association's Larry Ramos

★ Terry Williams

★ Mike Settle

★ Thelma Camacho
The latter three were original founders of The First Edition, along with Kenny Rogers. In the early 1970s, the group's roster included future Broadway stars, Christine Andreas and Linda Hart.

Partial discography

★ ''Presenting The New Christy Minstrels''

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels In Person''

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels Tell Tall Tales! (Legends and Nonsense)''

★ ''Ramblin'

★ ''Merry Christmas''

★ ''Land of Giants''

★ ''Today and Other Songs from 'Advance to the Rear'

★ ''Live from Ledbetter's''

★ ''Quiet Sides of the New Christy Minstrels''

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels Sing and Play Cowboys and Indians''

★ ''Amore Ritorna...'' (released only in Italy)

★ ''Chim Chim Cher-ee and Other Happy Songs''

★ ''The Wandering Minstrels''

★ ''My Own Little World'' (released only in Japan)

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels' Greatest Hits''

★ ''In Italy...In Italian''

★ ''New Kick!''

★ ''Christmas with the Christies''

★ ''On Tour Through Motortown''

★ ''Big Hits from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (with Arthur Treacher)

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels a San Remo'' (released only in Italy)

★ ''The New Christy Minstrels'' (released only in Japan)

★ ''You Need Someone to Love''

★ ''Keep Japan Beautiful'' (released only in Japan)

★ ''The Great Soap Opera Themes''

★ ''Merry Christmas, Volume II''

External links

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★ The New Christy Minstrels homepage