Collector's Choice
1965
Chim Chim Cher-Ee (Bonus Tracks)
About This Album
By the spring of 1965, the New Christy Minstrels were into their eighth lineup during their three-year existence with only Nick Woods and Art Podell remaining from the first incarnation. As if that weren't enough, the band's primary force, Randy Sparks, had split the previous fall as a series of ongoing internal battles pushed him farther away from the direction that the Christys were headed. After the album Cowboys and Indians (1964), the Christys were dealt a further blow when lead vocalist Barry McGuire and recent recruit Peter Potash jumped ship after the combo's successful tour of Europe. Prior to their excursion they scored a hit with an arrangement of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from the Academy Award-winning Walt Disney film Mary Poppins (1964). With the folk contingency having more or less abandoned the group, the New Christy Minstrels took a different, if not somewhat modern approach to their upcoming recordings. Obviously inspired by the Top 30 charting of "Chim Chim Cher-ee," they remade the selection and surrounded it with their most folk-rock effort to date. While fans of their earlier material were undoubtedly nonplussed, the landscape of music was rapidly changing and the Christys took advantage of the new sounds and fusions.
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