June Christie : The Cool School
June Christie : The Cool School
June Christie (vocals) with the Joe Castro Quartet : Joe Castro (piano, celeste), Howard Roberts (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Larry Bunker (drums, vibraphone, bongos)
Capitol 1398
Pure Pleasure Records : LP 180 gram
Brand New and Sealed Record
A1 - Give A Little Whistle
A2 - The Magic Window
A3 - Baby's Birthday Party
A4 - When You Wish Upon A Star
A5 - Baubles, Bangles And Beads
A6 - Aren't You Glad You're You
B1 - Kee-Mo Ky-Mo
B2 - Scarlet Ribbons
B3 - Looking For a Boy
B4 - Small Fry
B5 - Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
B6 - Swinging On A Star
Recorded in September 1959 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood.
The Cool School remains the most complex and contradictory album in the June Christy catalog: a collection of children's music crafted without sentimentality or saccharine, it brilliantly articulates the confusion, isolation, and yearning that form the core of childhood experience.
Equally surprising, the arrangements are the most direct and unadorned of Christy's career, eschewing horns and cotton-candy fluff to focus squarely on her crisp, nimble vocals and the Joe Castro Quartet's driving rhythms. Familiar songs like "Swinging on a Star" and "Looking for a Boy" are stripped of artifice to recapture their innate power and mystery. In short, The Cool School celebrates the intelligence of children, and refuses to pander to audiences of any age.
This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed with virgin vinyl at Pallas.