Pista: 04 Album: Let's Get Out Of This Country. + Informações

Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas. + Informações

Live at Carnegie Hall. + Informações

I heard this song in the seventies and was taken by the lyrics and the music, particularly at the ethereal 'when you sleep do you have dreams?' bit. It just seemed different to everything else around at that time, and to me, even had a hint of creepiness. Dory Previn is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet. During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist for motion picture songs, and with her first husband André Previn received several Academy Award nominations. In the 1970s, after their divorce, she released six albums of original songs and a live album. Dory Previn's lyrics from this period are characterised by their originality, their irony, and their honesty in dealing with her troubled personal life, as well as more generally about relationships, sexuality, religion and psychology. She has continued to work since then as a writer of song lyrics and prose. 'Lady with the Braid' was from one of her most acclaimed albums, 'Mythical Kings and Iguanas'. Update - Dory died on 14 Feb 2012 at the age of 86. (Summarised from Wikipedia). I have done a video using images of Dory and the Don Draper character from Mad Men, one of my favourite shows. I could imagine Don making his way through Dory's various scenarios. Comments are invited.. + Informações

From the 1976 album "We're Children of Coincidence and Harpo Marx".this album was Dorys last record & her 1st for Warners after her brilliant UA series of albums.To my mind this is a rather patchy record in as the song writing falls short of her UA years,still I believe there's no such thing as a bad Dory Previn album and this track is worth the entrance fee alone.. + Informações

Plaza Club - 24-06-2006, Vancouver. + Informações

i no longer plead with heaven or go rummaging in books for answers to the questions life contains now i listen listen listen to this inner thing resounding in the resounding in the pulsing and the pounding of my infant ancient veins i no longer seek instruction from my father and my mother i have mastered all their pleasures and their pain no i listen listen listen to this inner thing resounding in the pulsing and the pounding of my infant ancient veins the feeling in my bloodflow is a simple thing y'see everything and nothing in the parody is me i'm the hero i'm the villain the beginning and the end i'm creator i'm destroyer i'm the enemy the friend i'm an animal a spirit flying high and falling down i am special i'm important i am sacred i'm a clown so i stumble through the chaos dragging clumsily behind me all the eggshells and the fish scales and the fur pelts of my past while this thing goes on inside me at one with all the vastness the fantasies and fictions and when all the contradictions come together come together they will fit the feeling in my bloodflow is a simple thing y'see i am it i am it we are everything and nothing but that's how to play the game in these weather beaten bodies with these god forsaken brains we can listen listen listen to the universe resounding in the pulsing and the pounding of our infant ancient veins listen listen listen and it all begins to fit you are it your are it :). + Informações

"Hunky Dory" Irish TV program based on the show 'Children Of Coincidence, 1980 "The Obscene Phone Call" by Dory Previn original lyrics from 1974 album "Dory Previn" performed by Colm CT Wilkinson, Twink & Terry Neason "Hello hello is this the PED? well i just got an obscene call he threatened my life with a boy scout knife and a bad invitation to ball but officer please put me at ease would you repeat what you just said? there ain't nothin' that you can begin to do not until i can prove i'm dead? hello, oh hi is this the FBI? got at obscene call on the phone he threatened my life with a boy scout knife and i'm scared 'cause i'm all alone what d'you mean you're on the scene you are watching me all the time you go binoculars trained on my window pain just in case i commit a crime? hello, oh hey is this the CIA? well this call came an hour ago and the FBI thinks that i'm a spy and you say you already know cause you got a bug in my navajo rug and my telephone's tapped of course well who permitted this game oh the orders came they all came from a higher source? hello station to station united nations? someone called before and it was real obscene would you intervene? oh you're too busy ending the war well treaties and pacts those are big time acts ending war takes guts and gall but did you ever explore what begins a war? it begins with an obscene call! hello GOD hello this is me listen god there's this call that i got and i've tried them all tried the big and small i called .... + Informações

This is two songs composed and sung by Dory Previn. They are Jesus Had a Baby Sister and Twenty Mile Zone.. + Informações

Going home Mythical kings and iguanas. Tribute to Dory Previn. RIP!!! See another video here - www.youtube.com Dory Previn, the lyricist for three Oscar-nominated songs who as a composer and performer mined her difficult childhood, bouts of mental illness and a very public divorce to create a potent and influential personal songbook, died on Tuesday at her home in Southfield, Mass. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Joby Baker. Ms. Previn rose to prominence as a singer-songwriter with a substantial cult following in the early 1970s and she enriched a period in pop music history that also saw the emergence of Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Laura Nyro. She never became as widely known as they were (though she did record a live double album at Carnegie Hall), partly because her voice was never as big as theirs, but also because her lyrics ? frank and dark, even when tinged with humor, and often wincingly confessional ? were not the stuff of pop radio. They were, however, clear antecedents of the work of later balladeers like Sinead O'Connor and Suzanne Vega. In "With My Daddy in the Attic," Ms. Previn wrote of her complicated relationship with her disturbed father. In "Esther's First Communion," she wrote about a girl's indoctrination into religious ritual and her revulsion at it. In "Yada Yada La Scala," she wrote about women in a mental hospital. In "Lemon Haired Ladies," she wrote about an older woman pining for a younger man: Whatever you give me I'll .... + Informações

more quality 1960s & 1970s footage from BBC4sounds and BBC4music. check my other channel for more of the same.. + Informações

Dublin broadcast 1980 "Hunky Dory" written and composed by Dory Previn performed by Colm CT Wilkinson ( www.colmwilkinson.com ) Original lyrics from 1971 album "Reflections in a Mud Puddle - Taps Tremors and Timesteps" I seem to see this stranger almost everywhere i do not wish to frighten you but you should know he's there so that if you're threatened if evil's ever done you'll know itÂs him who did it youÂll know that he's the one his looks are ordinary but he does things in the dark he hides inside the shadows watching children in the park he whispers things in subways you'd tremble with alarm i tell you he will get to you he's out to do you harm i've seen him in the headlines and on the evening news i saw him on the sideline when stones were thrown at jews and marching in montgomery pretending that he cared i saw him wink as though some old conspiracy were shared he was in the crowd in dallas at the close of camelot i spotted him on campus when the students had been shot in an oriental village with civilians left to rot he was hanging out with soldiers trading heroin for pot and he was smiling smiling. last night i found obscenities scrawled across my wall i swear i can't repeat the filthy words that i recall and then the most immoral damned insulting thing of all as I read each line i noticed his handwriting was identical with mine.. + Informações

BBC 'Kaleidoscope' Interview from the 70s. thanks to rod684. + Informações

Dublin broadcast 1980 "Hunky Dory" written and composed by Dory Previn. Adele King 'Twink' sings "I ain't his child" from 1970 album On My Way To Where. Terry Neason sings "I Dance And Dance And Smile And Smile" from 1971 album Taps Tremors and Time Steps. Lyrics to I Ain't His Child.... + Informações

Camera Obscura at the Opera House in Toronto. January 31, 2007.. + Informações

Bernadette Cahill interview of DORY PREVIN in 2005. The two-hour show was aired on KEDM, available at Public Radio Exchange: www.prx.org www.prx.org Dory Previn's 2005 album PLANET BLUE is free.. + Informações

It's a little known fact that Janis Joplin, whose star burned so brightly but so briefly, had, just before her death, purchased a stone for Bessie Smith's grave site. Another star who died young and before her time.. + Informações

BBC 'Kaleidoscope' Interview from the 70s. thanks to rod684. + Informações

Filmed by Vantomas Productions. www.youtube.com Camera Obscura - 6. Dory Previn - live at Cafè Teatre del Escorxador, Lleida, Spain, Nov. 26, 2006. + Informações

Camera Obscura - 6. Dory Previn - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2007, Benicàssim, Spain, July 21, 2007. + Informações

Muisc and lyrics : Dory Previn. + Informações

from the 1967 movie soundtrack - MUSIC by ANDRE PREVIN and LYRICS by DORY PREVIN - created at animoto.com. + Informações

From Dory Previn's fifth solo studio LP "Dory Previn". + Informações

"Doppelganger" is the first track off the first side of Dory Previn's third album, titled "Reflections in a Mud Puddle." United Artists, 1971.. + Informações

My attempt at covering Dory Previn's Mythical KIng and Iguanas, which I've mixed together with Going Home, as she does. Great song from the mid 70's. A few little mistakes, but who is to say that perfect is right and imperfect is wrong - ehh?. + Informações