As they had done with "He's a Loser" and "Downtown" on Chim Chim Cher-ee, Wandering Minstrels offers the pop-influenced "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," "Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)," and an outstanding reading of "The Girl From Ipanema." The latter captures the lilting nature of the original, updating the arrangement with the wispy solitude of vocalist Karen Gunderson, who had joined a year earlier. As the concurrent "owners" considered the Christys' fate from strictly a financial perspective, they encouraged the ensemble to branch out and incorporate the influx of new styles and sounds.
At this point in the combo's career, they had survived eight incarnations in roughly three years with Podell and Nick Woods as the sole survivors of the first incarnation.
HAND OF FATE WANDERING MINSTRELS FULL
Taking the place of what once would have been a platter full of self-penned material is now a variety of covers with only a pair of Art Podell-penned numbers. In many ways the Wandering Minstrels (1965) album is a continuation of the path that the Christys had commenced on their previous long-player, Chim Chim Cher-ee (1965). By the spring of 1965, they faced the future sans Barry McGuire. The New Christy Minstrels persisted minus their former leader Randy Sparks, who sold his interest in the name to his two business partners.
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