Description: Up for auction a RARE! "New Christy Minstrels" Rick Hansen Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is authenticated By Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity. ES-3985D 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 scored several hits, including "Green, Green", "Saturday Night", "Today", "Denver", and "This Land Is Your Land" The group's 1962 debut album, Presenting The New Christy Minstrels, won a Grammy Award and was on the Billboard charts for two years. The group sold millions of records, was in demand at concerts and on television shows, and helped launch the musical careers of several musicians, including Kenny Rogers, Gene Clark, Kim Carnes, Larry Ramos, and Barry McGuire. Sparks had been a solo performer, mixing folk music with pop standards and playing club dates on the West Coast and in Manhattan. Twice winner of the All-Navy Talent competition, he landed high-profile television appearances and a recording contract with Verve Records. In 1960, at the suggestion of Verve founder Norman Granz, he formed The Randy Sparks Three with his wife, Jackie Miller, and singer/arranger Nick Woods. But he wanted a larger group. Folk music was popular and choral groups like the Norman Luboff Choir were incorporating folk classics in their repertoires. Sparks felt that these groups sang too perfectly, lacking the rustic character of folk performance. Throughout 1961 and 1962, he created a 14-voice ensemble, The New Christy Minstrels by combining his trio with the Oregon quartet The Fairmount Singers,[4] The Inn Group (singers John Forsha, Karol Dugan and Jerry Yester), banjo player Billy Cudmore, folk-blues singer Terry Wadsworth, folk singer Dolan Ellis and singer/guitarist Art Podell. Large commercial folk groups did not exist then, and The New Christy Minstrels delivered a robust new sound. Sparks named his group after Christy's Minstrels, a blackface group formed by Philadelphia-born showman Edwin Pearce Christy in 1842 and known for introducing Stephen Foster's compositions. Sparks also saw his group as a means of attracting attention to his own original songs and adaptations of folk classics.
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