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Randy Sparks Dies: Grammy-Winning Founder Of The New Christy Minstrels And TV Star Was 90
The founder of the folk group The New Christy Minstrels, Randy Sparks, has died at 90
Randy Sparks, whose group the New Christy Minstrels was a huge part of the folk revival of the early 1960s, died on Sunday at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. Sparks also maintained what he termed a “farm group” called the Back Porch Majority, which he stocked with promising performers. Among those were Steve Martin, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Barry McGuire, and Gene Clark of the Byrds.
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