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28 Feb 05 - 12:35 PM (#1423013) Subject: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Nick Very few on the internet and never hear anyone. Always liked Mythical Kings and Iguana album from years ago. |
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28 Feb 05 - 04:04 PM (#1423195) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Wrinkles I've never found a song book of her stuff, otherwise I would do her numbers; they're really good. Wrinkles |
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28 Feb 05 - 04:10 PM (#1423207) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Georgiansilver No, but I do have the LP record and occasionally play it. It speaks volumes about how she felt about her split with Andree and her subsequent life to that point. Felt sorry for her really. Best wishes, Mike. |
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28 Feb 05 - 04:28 PM (#1423227) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Geoff the Duck Can't recall what she did have played on radio - can anyone refresh my memory with some titles? Quack! GtD. |
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28 Feb 05 - 04:45 PM (#1423242) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Georgiansilver Mythical Kings and Iguanas. Lady with the Braid. A Stone for Bessie Smith. Lemon Haired ladies. Best wishes, Mike. |
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28 Feb 05 - 05:05 PM (#1423265) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Nick What prompted it partly was the thread on Changing sex - I have always really liked the song 'Angels and devils' and wondered whether you could get away singing it as a guy? I think the f word puts people off singing it? It's a great lyric. Do oyou reckon it's changeable to a man's perspective. Would Dory care? Angels and Devils the Following Day loved i two men equally well though they were diff'rent as heaven and hell one was an artist one drove a truck one would make love the other would fuck each treated me the way he knew best one held me lightly one bruised my breast and i responded on two diff'rent levels like children reacting to angels and devils one was a poet who sang and read verse one was a peasant who drank and who cursed before you decide who's cruel and who's kind let me explain what i felt in my heart and my mind the artist was tender but suffered from guilt making him sorry the following day and he made me feel guilty the very same way in his bed on the following day the other would take me and feel no remorse he'd wake with a smile in the bed where we lay and he made me smile in the very same way in his bed on the following day the blow to my soul by fear and taboos cut deeper far than a bodily bruise and the one who was gentle hurt me much more than the one who was rough and made love on the floor |
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28 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM (#1423331) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Brendy I've done Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign, from time to time. Mythical Kings, as well. Going Home, I have done, too. That's a powerful song, and is one of the easier ones I think, to sing from another perspective. Having said that, I did 'Michael Michael, Superman (muscle-bound, and super-tanned)' in a pub one night, years ago. About 10 body-builders came in, and planked themselves right in front of the stage. One of them came up, and asked me to do a song for his friend Michael, who's birthday they were all celebrating. I couldn't resist the opportunity. I like 'Angels & Devils', but wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole. Not because of the work 'fuck', though. It just 'doesn't fit', if you know what I mean. Songs are best sung, I think, if they are 'worn'. $0.02 B. |
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28 Feb 05 - 06:29 PM (#1423351) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Gray D "Songs are best sung, I think, if they are 'worn'". Damn, that's good, Brendy. Don't if that's yours or someone elses but I've never heard it put better . . . so I shall be using it myself at some point in the future. I'll make sure to give you a name check though. Fair's fair. Gray D |
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28 Feb 05 - 06:32 PM (#1423359) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: robomatic I've just been searching all over the internet for a song of hers I heard the last four lines of on WBCN in Boston thirty years ago: "King Kong came to our town Tore our town apart King Kong put the fear of Jesus Into every heart" There is a fresh quality to her stuff that still resonates. She has put together a pastiche of music regarding her response to current events. I do not have a link to it, unfortunately. |
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28 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM (#1423380) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Margret RoadKnight I recorded "Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?" in the late '70s, and still perform it, always to great acclaim. |
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28 Feb 05 - 06:49 PM (#1423382) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Brendy It's on the Mary C Brown and the Hollywood sign album (pre Mythical Kings). My album is in Ireland, unfortunately, and the words are on the inside sleeve, but I'll try and get my brother to hunt it out of his attic, and write them down for me... Nice one, Gray D, thanks. I cant think I've heard it said anywhere (although I could be wrong), I was just trying to qualify the image of the song 'fitting'. It's like someone else's soul you are tring to emulate, when you sing (if it's not your own stuff), and you have to (here I go again...), lift your arms up and let the song descend on you. For 'you', I mean 'one', of course. B. |
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28 Feb 05 - 07:13 PM (#1423403) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Brendy This might be a site that could be helpful to you, robomatic: In Search of Mythical Kings (the Ua Years) B. |
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01 Mar 05 - 03:21 AM (#1423605) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: open mike There was a song in a movie a long time ago...30 + years.. that went Come Saturday morning, I'm going away with my friend we'll saturday spend til the end of the day... i wonder if that was a Dory previn song? I seem to think so.. so long ago...what movie? no recollection... maybe about a person who was in an institution? crazy? depressed? i may have these images all mixed up.. creative memory! |
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01 Mar 05 - 06:41 AM (#1423689) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Bonnie Shaljean Read her autobiography, "Midnight's Baby" (or something similar with the word Midnight in it). It's absolutely chilling. |
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01 Mar 05 - 07:04 AM (#1423714) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Sandra in Sydney 1997 BGO Records put out 'Mythical Kings & Iguanas/Reflections in a Mud Puddle'. BCOCD383. 19 tracks, all words included. www.bgo-records.com (Beat Goes On Records PO Box 22, Bury St Edmonds I had a tape of Mythical Kings that I played to death over 20 years & finally replaced it last year. She's a great songwriter. sandra |
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01 Mar 05 - 07:19 AM (#1423726) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: mindblaster I did Mythical Kings at a folk club a bout 5 years ago! Goin' home is such a ride cam be quite a good folky sing-a-long to add on to the end of another song. |
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01 Mar 05 - 08:31 AM (#1423767) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: JJ "Come Saturday Morning" (words by Dory Previn, music by Fred Karlin) was sung by the Sandpipers in the 1969 movie THE STERILE CUCKOO, which featured Liza Minnelli in her first starring role. Both Liza and the song were nominated for Oscars, but didn't win. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" did. |
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01 Mar 05 - 05:29 PM (#1424287) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Susanne (skw) Iain MacKintosh used to do 'Mary Cecilia Brown' (which he recorded on 'Standing Room Only', 1986) and 'Morning Song' - not sure that's the correct title. It starts "In the morning, when I wake up I've got to take an easy pace". Lovely piece! I've never heard Dory herself, but I think both songs are well suited to Iain's understated style. |
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01 Mar 05 - 05:36 PM (#1424293) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: open mike thanks JJ for confirming and completing my sketchy memories! |
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01 Mar 05 - 06:13 PM (#1424329) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Margret RoadKnight Amazing Australian singer Jeannie Lewis has recorded two Dory Previn compositions. |
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06 Mar 05 - 11:52 AM (#1428103) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: GUEST I have all her albums. Bought each of them as they came out. Saw her in concert at Carnegie Hall too. I'm now in the process of trying to find them all on CD. Nice to read that so many still remember her songs and poetry. |
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07 Mar 05 - 08:27 AM (#1428732) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Cool Beans My ex got the Dory Previn LP in the divorce but I think I got the book, "On My Way to Where." Sometimes I sing "You were doing it alone/ You were doing it alone/ You were screaming in your car in 20-mile zone" in my car alone. But I've never done any of Dory Previn's songs on stage. |
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24 May 06 - 10:58 PM (#1747034) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: GUEST,julyone@rogers.com How nice to find a site about Dory. I have all her albums and books. What I would really like are CDs. I think we can all use a night of depression from time to time :) I'm also trying to find the lyrics to Michael Michael Suuperman. if you have them electronically, please let me know. p.s. I had a friend in the audience at her concert at Carnegie Hall...just when she was singing "20 Mile Zone" an ambulance drove by...stopped her and the audience. Nice to know it was a real story. |
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24 May 06 - 11:08 PM (#1747036) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Charlie Baum michael michael from ON MY WAY TO WHERE by Dory Previn Michael michael superman muscle-bound and supertan leather jacket denim pants never did learn how to dance how to dance digs karate raps on zen michael makes it best with men digs karate raps on zen michael makes it best with men michael michael superman muscle-bound and supertan when he walks and talks and moves michael proves and proves and proves michael is a hyper superman pushes acid peddles hash that's how michael gets his stash rides his cycle like a king knows his number does his thing does his thing and if he want to he can con any bird he's turning on if he wants to he can con any bird he's turning on michael michael superman muscle-bound and supertan when he walks and talks and moves michael proves and proves and proves michael is a hyper superman but late at night he sometimes seems to hear his mother's voice in dreams calling to him clear and plain but she calls him mary jane mary jane and michael answers plain and clear i am coming mother dear michael michael superman muscle-bound and supertan when he walks and talks and moves michael proves and proves and proves michael is a hyper superman a superman. This and more Dory Previn lyrics/poems can be found at http://www.starwalk.com/dory/ --Charlie Baum |
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13 Jun 10 - 01:04 PM (#2926826) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Larry The Radio Guy My old group, The Interlocking Pieces, did two Dory Previn songs: 20 Mile Zone, and King Kong--the latter Dory Previn took a different perspective on the King Kong story, seeing it from the Gorilla's perspective. The result is a powerful animal rights song, which is also a metaphor for how oppressed people are treated in North American society. |
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13 Jun 10 - 04:23 PM (#2926979) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: Gallus Moll I was given a cassette of Mythical Kings and Iguanas 23 years ago to help me during the aftermath of a painful breakup - which it absolutely did! At that time there were quite a few women on the Scotia Bar / Vicky Bar / Clutha Vaults / Riverside Club circuit who sang and joined in Dory Previn songs in sessions. Later on an American pal sent me more of her albums and a book - excellent, I really wished I could have seen her perform live - she expressed exactly how I felt! As did Judy Small - right on, sisters!!! |
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14 Jun 10 - 04:50 AM (#2927307) Subject: RE: Does anyone do any Dory Previn songs? From: GUEST,Roger Knowles Yes, a couple. |