Hits and Highlights 1962-1968 (Coat Your Mind in Honey) (1999)

About this title: This 30-song anthology from Australia actually complements the Collectors' Choice Definitive New Christy Minstrels just about perfectly, despite overlapping it for 13 songs. A full 17 songs here don't appear on the Collectors' Choice double CD, and while some of them are not representative of the group's best work or the most distinctive part of its history, they're almost all entertaining and, in many instances, are enlightening as well. And then there's the sound on this CD, which is very bright and clean, in keeping with Raven Records' usual standard. Where the material does overlap with ... read more

Tracks:

1. Green, Green [McGuire/Sparks]
2. Ramblin' [Sparks/arr. J. Harb]
3. Saturday Night [Sparks]
4. This Land Is Your Land [Guthrie]
5. Denver [Sparks]
6. Today [Sparks]
7. The Wheeler Dealers [Sparks]
8. Chim Chim Cheree [Version] [Sherman/Sherman]
9. Silly Ol' Summertime [Sparks/Turner]
10. We'll Sing in the Sunshine [Garnett]
11. Gotta Get a Goin' [Angelos/Kohan]
12. Down the Road I Go [Sparks/Theodorakis]
13. Drinkin' Gourd (The Muddy Road to Freedom) [Sparks/Woods]
14. Ride Ride Ride [Sparks/Woods]
15. The Banjo [McGuire/Sparks]
16. Three Wheels on My Wagon [Bacharach/Hilliard]
17. Navajo [Woods/Holtzman/Holt]
18. Miss Katie Cruel [Podell/Woods]
19. They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around [Kaplan]
20. Blowin' in the Wind [Dylan]
21. There But for Fortune [Ochs]
22. Born to Be Free [Williams]
23. Go, Lassie, Go [Podell/Schorr]
24. Sing Along With Santa [Sparks/Woods]
25. We Need a Little Christmas [Herman]
26. Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) [Peretti/Creatore/We]
27. A Little Bit of Happiness [Eager]
28. If I Could Start My Life Again [Martine Laying Jr]
29. Where Did Our Love Go [Holland/Dozier/Holl]
30. I'll Coat Your Mind With Honey [Tucker/Keith Colley]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.