It was a song that very accurately described my philosophical mindset at the time, but as the years went by I changed the way I felt about a lot of things. “Green, Green” reached Number 14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and Number 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart.īy 1965, though, McGuire left the band, in part because of the failure to produce another song like “Green, Green.” As he wrote on his personal website: His biggest contribution to the band was the “Green, Green,” which he co-wrote with New Christy Minstrels co-founder Randy Sparks.
Singer-songwriter Barry McGuire joined folk band The New Christy Minstrels in the early 1960s. You can listen to the songs in a Spotify playlist. Read about it here and see the list of previous songs here. A new post about a different song is posted each Monday. This is the 59th post in a weekly series.
