Re-mastering by Ron McMaster at Capitol Studios 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. - Jason Ankeny/AMG Personnel: June Christy(vo) with The Joe Castro Quartet: Joe Castro, piano , celeste/ Howard Roberts, guitar/ Leroy Vinnegar, bass/ Larry Bunker, drums, vibraphone, bongos Recorded in Los Angeles on February 8,15 1960Tracklisting Side 1: 1. Give a little whistle 2. The magic window 3. Baby"s birthday party 4. When you wish upon a star 5. Baubles,bangles and beads 6. Aren"t you glad you"re you Side 2: 1. Kee-mo Ky-mo 2. Scarlet ribbons 3. Looking for a boy 4. Small fry 5. Ding dong the witch is dead 6. Swingin" on a star