Randy Sparks is a musician, singer-songwriter and founder of The New
Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority. Prior to that, in the late
1950s he had a solo career and released two albums under the Verve
label, a self-titled album in 1958 and Walking the Low Road in 1959. In
1960 he formed a trio called "The Randy Sparks Three" and had an
album by that same name. He wrote the song "Today” which was a
hit for the New Christy Minstrels for their 1964 album of the same
title for Columbia Records.

Randy Sparks wrote "Green, Green" with Barry McGuire for the
1963 album Ramblin. 

 
The New Christy Minstrels then

Today’s group

                     (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973)

Joseph Evans Brown was a popular actor and comedian. In 1902 at the
age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five
Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and
vaudeville circuits. Later he became a professional baseball player. After
three seasons he returned to the circus, then went into Vaudeville and
finally starred on Broadway. He gradually added comedy into his act and
transformed himself into a comedian. He moved to Broadway in the 1920s
first appearing in the musical comedy Jim Jam Jems.

Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics Series and made
under the supervision of Disney himself, the film and its animation  
are often regarded as some of the finest work in Disney Studio history. 

 
                     (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of John F.
Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, serving as First Lady
during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years
later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; the marriage
lasted until his death in 1975. During the final two decades of her life,
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a successful career as a book editor.

Jackie and Jack

Jackie with Aristotle Onassis

“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” scored #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, where it remained for three weeks. It sold more than one
million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

The Tokens today are, from left, Jay Traynor, Jay Siegel and Bill Reid.