The New Christy Minstrels & Gene Clark - 1963 - Part l/V
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2008
- WUNERFUL!! Barry McGuire is here too, and this was filmed during Gene's brief tenure with the band.
In what is probably the biggest irony of my life; my Dad's brother was Randy Sparks' best friend, up until the day he died in the late '90's.
Randy begged uncle Walt to stop smoking, which he didn't, and he succumbed to lung cancer.
I NEVER met my uncle, but I'm told that Randy was in our house around 1965 playing Guitar; I would have been only 4 years old then, and have no memory of this.
Before the Christys became famous, Randy told Dad that he was going to buy him a Rolls Royce when he bcame "Rich & Famous"!
The Rolls never materialised. :-)
I wouldn't make The Byrds/Christys connection until YEARS after I started playing.
Gene left The Minstrels shortly after this, after hearing "She Loves You" on a restaurant jukebox, and headed to California...
He can be clearly seen at 00:55.
Listen for the cool key change modulation at 1:41.
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Part 3:
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Part 4:
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Part 5:
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Gene Clark, Barry McGuire, and Larry Ramos went on to have great music careers.
Gene was on the cover of their Christmas album, but he didn't sing on it.
Gene Clark...the cool Byrd!
🎶🎶🎤🎸🥁
Saw them in a concert in 1963 or 1964 at Kearney State College in Kearney, Nebraska....huge crowd and the crowd loved them...especially they loved the two girls!!!
It is so wonderful to have this music of the New Christy Minstrels preserved in history and others such as the Seekers, Chad Mitchell Trio, Kingston, Peter, Paul & Mary... what an era for greatest music ever. I am saddend to hear that Gayle passed away this past April and she will live in out hearts forever. May the Lord give her family peace and thank you for the wonderful music you gave us....
I was able e-mail Randy Sparks, Barry McGuire, Art Podell (the singer right next to Gene Clark) and Clarence Treat (The bass player) telling them about these videos and how great they are and they all responded to me. It was great that they really returned my e-mails. I have been e-mailing Randy a lot lately and he always gets back to me right away.
I remember this song from the early 60s when I was in grade school. This song expresses true love and longing like no other.
Great story about this video, I think the folk era of music kind of gets the short shrift when it comes to credit/props. Groups like this, plus Chad Mitchell, Serendipity Singers, Rooftop Singers, The Highwaymen, Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary, Smothers Bros. We Five, The Seekers, The Brothers Four, The Sandpipers, Glenn Yarbrough/Limelighters (I could go on and on) They just don't get the credit they deserve.
Oh my goodness..thank you so much for sharing this...
Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤
Members of the New Christy Minstrals
I'm going away at eventide
Across the wild and the rolling sea
I bid you stay, stay here by my side
And share a last farewell with me
Through snow-clad mountains, proud and tall
Or a thousand miles 'cross the burning sand
Our last farewell, then will I recall
When I'm alone in a far-off land
A wandering song is all I know
Yet I love you more, more than words can tell
I hear the song and I'm bound to go
I leave you now, with a last farewell
I leave you now, with a last farewell
This was the era when people couldreally sing....no computer correction, no RAP no CRAP
@bobvocal
Nick Woods. He was also one of the arrangers of the group. He and Jackie Miller (blonde banjo player) and Randy Sparks (her ex-husband) were The Randy Sparks Trio before the Christies were formed. Reportedly, Woods, Larry Ramos (other banjo player and later of The Association) and Clarence Treat (bass player) were the core trio of the Christies around whom most of the arrangements were written.
Never saw these groups in the UK.....amazing....love it.....well just amazing...thats all i can say..... Jim
I recently bought two copies of the New Christy Minstrel debut album. One has the group in silhouettes on the front cover and the other has photos (including Larry Ramos). Same album, tunes and even liner notes. It mentioned Jerry Yester (Lovin' Spoonful member and a Facebook Friend) so I emailed him about it. The album was only suppose to be a recording with no live band to tour behind it. Turns out Columbia like the group and booked them onto TV. So Randy Sparks had to call Jerry up where he was doing a trio gig in another state. Asked him to come back, but Jerry had signed a contract and couldn't break it in time to do the show. Randy put together an entirely new group with Larry Ramos included. There is no picture of Jerry on any of the versions of this cover and his name eventually disappeared from the liner notes on the later editions.
Mindblowing performance!
That's Larry Ramos of The Association at 7:00 - 7:20. Wow, never knew he, like Gene Clark, was in the New Christy Minstrels.
LOTS of people got their start because of Randy Sparks!!!
I got a little treat today. While having lunch at a little cafe along highway 49 near Jackson CA, Randy Sparks and Becky Joe Benson sat down at the table behind me. I didn't recognize them but I knew I wanted to talk to them as soon as they walked in. Imagine my surprise to find out who they were, and then again to find out how nice and down to earth they are.
YES! They both lived near by.
Gene was only about 18-19 at this time. Funny how he and everyone there seem to look a lot older than their actual ages.
Simpatici bravi e belli!!!!!
Superbe de revoir ces images.
This is a great video, thanks for posting it. The song Walk The Road is wonderful, the arrangement is terrific.
thanks very much for your help. I just think he had a great quality and tone to his voice that deserves more credit. so sad to hear that he has passed away though .
thanks once again bob
@huskyjerk Yea, kinda of trip, he remembered me and I bought a cd and had it autographed by jim, larry and russ. There music is so classic it will go on forever.
@huskyjerk Yea, thats larry ramos.. I saw the association in vegas last november, larry looked good, he lost weight and remembered me from california where he came in my work place back in the 80's and 90's.
The singer doing the one solo part in the song is Nick Woods, Nick passed away in 1971.
yes he was, and still is.
One more time!
RIP Gayle Caldwell. (2009?)
they were so scrubbed, so careful. And yet they were considered cutting edge, lol. they all look lacquered. oh that blonde girl's hair...
Yes, so admired, so professional, so on-key, so handsome and pretty, so considerate, so respected, so talented.
Later in that decade, the US culture melted down. And the awful noise that dominates the popular music business now cannot be called music. It is just noise pollution for gang-bangers.
Damian Paul is correct besides Mcguire and Gene Clark, this also includes Larry Ramos on banjo who later replaced Gary Alexander in The Association
I agree with you, imusfan48. I brought some Christy Minstrels albums into my social studies class in the early 70s when we were studying folk music as a form of social statement and my teacher sneered at me and said that their music was pop music, not folk music. I thought to myself that it was because of idiots like her that my mother said sometimes students had to learn in spite of teachers, not because of them. I have always loved music but I didn't always love social studies! :-)
Gene Clark 😊
Bob Dylan made "folk music" grow up with thought-provoking lyrics.
@gymer15 So he was in the Association? I was just sort of kidding, just pointing out that he might have looked like him, not knowing by any stretch that it was indeed him! So thanks for the great info ! It pays to pay attention, right? Thanks again. And you know him? Awesome!
Thanks for these posts. Folk is still my favorite kind of music (along with some "classical"). I have fond memories of shows like Hootenanny and the NCM. I want political and social commentary in some songs; but I feel it's wrong to look down on the NCM for not being political and social enough. What happened later in the Sixties was more extreme, and there was a backlash. So it goes.
Members of the New Xristy Mintrals
New Crisry minstrals
Yes. Larry Ramos.
Is that Randy Ramos from the Association on?
barry mcguire is out of control!!!!
Amazing what plugging a Ric into a Fender amp will do?
I don't think too much of your teacher's comment, either. A talented group like the NCM does not have to sing about particular topics such as current politics to be good folk singers. Groups like The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul & Mary were surely as concerned as the NCM about developing a popular sound for the market, to make a living.
Yes, there is a Lawrence Welk quality of well-scrubbed, earnest, slightly dopey youth to all this (and, heck, check out the blond gal with the enormous BANGS!)...but! They are not dubbed, not auto-tuned, not flashing their tits or dressed up in thongs or phony "punk" gear or plaid or torn jeans...that's cool.
Those days are long gone as a caveman and Fred Flintstone
can you tell me the name of the lead singer in the middle break of the song last farewell thanks bob fron england
Nick Woods
There is a banjo player that looks like a guy in The Association. Is that him at 2:01 ?
i believe you're right
It is the Hawaiian guy known as Larry Ramos. RIP His brother is carrying on in the Association.
Which one is Gene Clark?
7:31 extreme left
but which one is Gene?
When I saw the NCM there was a cute chick called Ellen Whalen-still remember her..
What's the name of the first song here?
+Nobody Was Here It's called "Last Farewell" by the New Christy Minstrels. With a couple of small changes, the melody is basically the same as a very old folk song called "Waly Waly", a word that is an expression of pain or woe.
Yes... a remake of the water is wide
Thank goodness for Bob Dylan destroying this kind of folk music.