Chim Chim Cher-Ee/We’ll Sing In The Sunshine/He’s A Loser/Kisses Sweeter Than Wine/Springtime/Its Gonna Be Fine/A Little Bit Of Happiness/Downtown/The Rounder/Lark Day/Cotton Fields/Freedom
Chim Chim Cher-ee was the final major hit album from the folk ensemble The New Christy Minstrels. Founder Randy Sparks had left by the time of its release. (US:22)
"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 recordings. Obviously inspired by the 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. The resulting Chim Chim Cher-ee LP examines the influence of electrified rock & roll within the context of other decidedly more traditional entries. Hearkening back to their former persona are affable takes of Cotton Fields and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine."
"This album features many of the original members of the much-loved New Christy Minstrels, before they drifted off into other careers or musical endeavours. It was also at this time that they were undergoing a metamorphosis in style and content, so to many loyal fans of this wonderful folk ensemble this album represents something of a bookmark in the long and loved history of the group."
"It is filled with many of the greatest hits of that era, played and sung in their own inimitable style. There is beauty in these songs, there is passion and loveliness and fun and magic throughout."
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