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[1] The album featured in this photo, Dandelions, was recorded in 1970 by 'The Children of Sunshine', 10 year old 5th grade girls Tres (Therese) Williams and Kitsy Christner, grade-school friends in St. Louis, Missouri. They wrote all the songs themselves, both played guitar and sang all vocals. They hired two college students to play acoustic bass (Wendy Katz) and drum kit (Mike Kieffer). The album was released in 1971 when the girls were 11. Three hundred copies were pressed and released. The album cover was developed by the girls in their photography class at The College School in Webster Groves (St. Louis County), a series of photos were taken by and of the girls during an outing with their photography teacher Frank and guitar teacher Jim Curran. One of the songs 'The College School' was written about their private, open-classroom grade school, that at the time was under the umbrella of Webster College (now Webster University) in Webster Groves, Missouri (St. Louis County). The grade school has since become independent and is still in Webster Groves. The school was completely supportive of the girls allowing them to perform at the school as well as on local radio, television and live performances during the school day. There was also an article with photos of the girls featured on the cover of the Entertainment section of the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1971. Forty years later, 2010, both turning 50, they're contemplating the re-release of the album after having been approached by two different record labels.

The back cover reads:

It was just two years ago when we met each other — that’s 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 don’t 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 Kitsy’s home for the weekend and Uncle Scott and Aunt Judy were there when we started to make up some songs. Uncle Scott said, “Why don’t you two make an album since you’re 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 weren’t 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 o’clock 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.

We’d 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

Credits:
Jim Curran - Director
Wendy Katz - Bass
Mike Kieffer - Drums
John MacEnulty - Professional Assistance
Tres Williams - Guitar
Kitsy Christner - Guitar


[2] The newest one is a Mexican Psychedelic duo consisting of Duendo Matka and Ruoho.

[3] The other Dandelions is an indie band out of Cincinati, Ohio.
Consists of Maura Weaver(15), Sean Highley(16), Michael Vogel(14), and Sophia Franzago(16).
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