The New Christy Minstrels
"You Need Someone To Love"
RCA LSP10328
The New Christy Minstrels is an American vocal 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.Formed by Randy Sparks in 1961, the group had several Top 40 folk music hits, including "This Land Is Your Land", "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin'". "Green, Green" sold over one million copies in 1963, and was awarded a gold disc.[1] Current members of the group include Randy Sparks, Clarence Treat, Jackie Miller Davidson, 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 first 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.
The group continues to appear occasionally, still under the leadership of Randy Sparks and the name "The New Christy Minstrels", with several of the original members--playing and singing and performing with the same gusto as in the 1960s.
01 You Need Someone To Love
02 Make It With You
03 WigWam
04 Because
05 Turtles and Trees
06 Brother
07 Close To You
08 Hard To Be With You
09 South American Get Away
10 East & West
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