Dandelions - The Children Of Sunshine

THE BACK OF THE ALBUM READS:
It was just two years ago when we met each other — thats when it all started. Jim CURRAN started giving us guitar lessons. After a while we always played together at the shows at school. Then we had a photography class with Frank. He taught us how to develop pictures and what a photographer should know. One day it was very nice out so we went over to the college to ake pictures and there was a great big dandelion field and so we thought why dont we take pictures here. So we all picked some dandelions and posed in them. Frank took our picture and we developed it. In a few weeks we were together at Kitsys home for the weekend and Uncle Scott and Aunt Judy were there when we started to make up some songs. Uncle Scott said, Why dont you two make an album since youre so good? We said, O.K.! So we started making up songs and Kitsy came up with the idea of using the picture of us as the album cover. We figured out how it was going to look and everything so we made up a whole bunch of songs. Some of them we forgot and they werent any good and so we had to make up new ones. Our new ones turned out pretty good. Then we had singing lessons with some of the teachers at our school. Before we could record we had to practice doing our songs, so Jim said we should have a show of our own for the school just to get used to crowds. We did and we sang all our songs. Finally we had a whole bunch of rehearsals for the album and we had background people like Wendy and Mike — Mike played the drums and Wendy the bass. It really started to sound good so we had our first recording sessions. On our first recording session we recorded 4 songs but we only used two: Dandelions and Tuffy. In our second recording session we were tired of rehearsing and recording so we decided we were going to do them all that day. They all turned out good. The following Monday night at 8 oclock we chose which songs we wanted to do which finished the album. We had everybody who wanted an album at the College School send in $5.00 to us. When we got pretty much money we finished the album and that made us very proud.

Wed like to say Thank you very much to Jim CURRAN, Wendy KATZ, Mike KIEFFER, John MacENULTY, Uncle Steve (Uncle Harry?) and all the people who helped us make our whole album. TRES and KITSY

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• Dandelions
• The
• Children
• Of
• Sunshine
• Shags
• Folk
• 1971
• Tres
• Williams
• Kitsy
• Christner
• Nerd
• Pop
• Kimya
• Dawson
• Moldy
• Peaches

[crookedtimber30]

coolbeans.....i wanna hear the complete album now, i read about this band in the RFT paper..

[thetruerock]

@crookedtimber30 The last time I seen this LP in a record store just over a year ago they were asking atlest $1200 for it. Luckily I have it downloaded though I would love to add it to my record collection that is for sure..

[kentucky12]

Thumbs up if you just found out about this lost treasure in the RFT!

[FunkSoul1965]

Please download more of this!!! I was just made aware due to an alternative press newspaper here in St. Louis. Thx!!!

[jzillaj77]

@hampchamp55 I've known Tres since 2nd grade and Kitsy since 5th. Went to Ladue with Kitsy all the way through graduation.

[truethought62]

Thank you, Mace Mn, for the message from Tres clarifying that the band was never called "Dandelions", but, rather "The Children of Sunshine"--that should satisfy those who happen to reach this music.

[MaceMn]

@crookedtimber30 "9711886"s channel has this album uploaded in it's entirety.

[hampchamp55]

i know the girl on the left (kitsy)

[thepretendme]

Fun stuff.  Kids can carry a tune, pretty good for their age.

[thepretendme]

Fun stuff.

[spmccauley1]

Yes, more please.