Dory Previn - Beware of Young Girls

Mia Farrow is like the GOP. She accuses other people of doing the things she’s done.

[quote] a thread of it's own

Oh, dear.

bump / tell me about DORY eldergays...... did anyone see her live? why didn't she catch on? it seems like the late 70s cabaret scene would have been a perfect fit.

Mia Farrow took the lyrics of a song by Dory to invent the story about her daughter Dylan being molested by Woody Allen in the attic with the train set. Mia destroyed Dory's life so this the guilt in her at work, taking that song for a scenario where she and her daughter are the actual victims. Do you people see that this is the key to throwing out Mia's entire case against Allen?

Glad that Dory lived long enough to see Farrow get dumped by Allen in favor of her own adopted daughter. Damn, ol' Dory must have enjoyed that spectacle!

Dory Previn was mentally ill, and in and out of psychiatric care her whole life.

Beware of young women, yeah, but there's also the dozens her husband screwed around with long before Mia.

If you enjoy the 70s confessional female singer/songwriter, Dory's catalog could be of interest. She is not in league with Joni or Carly or Nyro.

[quote]why didn't she catch on? it seems like the late 70s cabaret scene would have been a perfect fit.

Dory had a long career as a songwriter (1950s-70s) and recording artist (late 50s, but mostly 1970s) but I think she was always a rarified taste. Too idiosyncratic, too personal, odd, even for the 70s. She's underappreciated. The songs she and Andre Previn created for VALLEY OF THE DOLLS have attained camp legend status--but they're also really good, tuneful songs, and her lyrics are unexpected and interesting.

Here's another she and Andre wrote for Frank Sinatra.

I had never heard of this song until Scream Queens used it so well on their “Mia” episode.