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    The New Christy Minstrels are an American large-ensemble folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961. The group has recorded more than 20 albums and...
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    Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer...
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    for The New Christy Minstrels. Written by the group's founder, Randy Sparks, it was introduced in the American comedy-Western film Advance to the Rear...
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  • Presenting the New Christy Minstrels, also known as Exciting New Folk Chorus, is the debut studio album by the acoustic American folk music group the New Christy...
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    music group The New Christy Minstrels on June 4, 1963. It was composed and written by group members Barry McGuire and Randy Sparks and became the group's...
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    Larry Ramos (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    his work with the 1960s pop band the Association. In 1963, he won a Grammy Award with the New Christy Minstrels, with Ramos being the first Asian American...
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  • Keith Barbour (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    singer-songwriter and actor who was a member of the Jabberwocks and New Christy Minstrels. He was a member of the Jabberwocks, Brown University's oldest male...
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    Randy Sparks (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority. Sparks was born on July 29, 1933 in Leavenworth...
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    of the folk ensemble the New Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy...
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  • the Jamie Records label. This was Bacharach's first credited production. It was also recorded by The New Christy Minstrels for their EP bearing the same...
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  • "Think I heard the angels say, Stars in the heaven gonna show you the way," which would appear in the New Christy Minstrels version of the song, sung by...
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  • Thelma Camacho (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    and rock and roll singer known for her membership in the groups the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition. As a teenager in San Diego, California...
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    Barry McGuire (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    to The Troubadour in Hollywood in the spring of 1962. There they joined the folk group The New Christy Minstrels and McGuire sang lead vocals on the novelty...
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  • Linda Hart (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    Awards and one a winner. Solo work included appearances with The New Christy Minstrels as their only female leader, a stint on Johnny Cash's ABC television...
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    Tracy Newman (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    as well as an early member of The New Christy Minstrels and lead singer of Tracy Newman and The Reinforcements. She is the mother of artist/writer Charlotte...
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    Peggy Connelly (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    Russell Garcia's Wigville Band. She also recorded two albums with The New Christy Minstrels. She also appeared with backup arranged by Marty Paich on one...
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    local clubs by the time he was in college. Denver decided to change his name when Randy Sparks, founder of the New Christy Minstrels, suggested that...
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    Anthology 2004 The New Christy Minstrels released an adaptation based on the Darby Ram, "Down to Darby" on their 1963 album The New Christy Minstrels Tell Tall...
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  • Terry Williams (musician) (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    the promotion department at Warner Bros. Records, he found he could not play guitar at work, so he joined the New Christy Minstrels. There he met the...
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    Jerry Yester (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    member of several bands including The New Christy Minstrels, Modern Folk Quartet, The Association, Rosebud and The Lovin' Spoonful. Yester started his...
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  • member of The New Christy Minstrels, and it was this vocal group that perhaps had the most commercially successful recording of the song. The song has...
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  • Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (category Industrial Workers of the World culture)
    out on the bread line. When springtime it comes, oh, won't we have fun; We'll throw off our jobs, and go on the bum. The New Christy Minstrels created...
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  • Terry Meeuwsen (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    with the singing group The New Christy Minstrels, but left the group to enter the Miss America pageant preliminary competitions. After winning the 1972...
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  • to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965. In 1961 singer/guitarist Randy Sparks formed The New Christy Minstrels, a ten-piece folk music group...
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    Trini Lopez (category Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in California)
    by Randy Sparks and Barry McGuire and originally recorded by the New Christy Minstrels earlier that year for their Columbia album Ramblin. Lopez scored...
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    At the beginning of the weekly series The New Christy Minstrels were the backup singers, but on December 20, 1962 The Osmond Brothers appeared on the show...
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  • Hootenanny (TV series) (category Television controversies in the United States)
    Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, Ian & Sylvia, The Big 3, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Flatt...
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  • Joe Magarac (category Steel industry of the United States)
    storage. One version of the Magarac story was recorded in song by The New Christy Minstrels on their 1964 Columbia Records release Land of Giants: "We're...
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  • John Wilkinson (guitarist) (category The New Christy Minstrels members)
    guitarist best known for performing with Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and The Greenwood County Singers in 1964. After Wilkinson once performed on a television...
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  • at the Disco "Saturday Nights" (Khalid song), 2019 "Saturday Night", by The New Christy Minstrels, 1963 "Saturday Night", by the Eagles from the 1973...
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