Dory Previn

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Glüme - The Internet

Music News 11 May 2021

The end product being twelve kitsch in sync songs of contemporary filter-bubblegum echo-chamber pop ... It’s showtime!. Throughout Glüme evokes a post-modem, postmodern Dory Previn, a pliable narrator, reliable orator dispensing supreme storytelling backed by (p)lush orchestration and atmos-fear ... In the former it’s ‘all’ about the ellipsis ... .

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Allen v Farrow is pure PR. Why else would it omit so much?

The Observer 03 Mar 2021

Moses and Allen have written that there was no electric train in the attic, and Allen has said that the attic allegation was inspired by a song by Dory Previn, whose husband André left her for Mia in 1970.

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Woody Allen claims 'With my daddy in the attic' song written by Andre Previn's ex-wife ...

The Daily Mail 23 Feb 2021

He has previously contended that the lyrics to a song written by Dory Previn, the ex-wife of Soon-Yi's father Andre Previn, prove his innocence ... Allen says the idea to frame him for molestation came from the lyrics to a song titled 'With my daddy in the attic' written by Dory Previn (above), the ex-wife of Soon-Yi's father Andre Previn.

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EXCLUSIVE: HBO doc is 'unfair' to Woody Allen and gives 'vindictive' Mia Farrow a pass, ...

The Daily Mail 19 Feb 2021

Two years later, after moving in with Previn and his wife Dory, she got pregnant with Previn's twins ... Dory Previn later wrote a bitter song, Beware of Young Girls, detailing how Mia had lured her husband away ... Mia moved in with Andre Previn and his wife Dory (pictured together) then got pregnant with Previn's twins.

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Tindersticks - Distractions

Music News 19 Feb 2021

On Tindersticks’s thirteenth album, ‘Distractions’, the group (ultra-sultry crooner Stuart Staples, Neil Fraser, David Boulter, Dan McKinna and Earl Harvin) effortlessly blend three reinterpretations (Neil Young; Dory Previn; Television Personalities, no less) with four new offerings.

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Dionne Warwick's greatest tracks – ranked!

The Observer 18 Feb 2021

20 ... It works. 19 ... Facebook ... 18 ... Jointly written by André Previn and his then-wife, Dory, (Theme From) Valley of the Dolls was more melodically and lyrically opaque than Warwick’s usual material, but no less enthralling. the lyrics seem to hint at mental illness, a regular theme of Dory Previn’s scandalously underrated subsequent singer-songwriter albums.

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Why Woody Allen Wasn’t Charged: a Timeline of Dylan Farrow’s Accusations

The Wrap 16 Feb 2021

Allen again denied the accusations, saying the “attic” account was clearly drawn from the 1970 Dory Previn song “With My Daddy in the Attic,” the lyrics of which appear to be about incest. He noted that Mia Farrow was likely familiar with Dory Previn’s work.

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Stuart Staples: ‘The wrench of leaving a small town was very defining’

The Irish Times 13 Feb 2021

Our musical references were Cabaret Voltaire and Joy Division, which became part of our DNA.” Dory Previn. Distractions features covers of The Lady with the Braid by Dory Previn, You’ll Have to Scream Louder by Television Personalities and A Man Needs a Maid by Neil Young.

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Perry Botkin Jr., Grammy-Winning Arranger of "Nadia's Theme," Dies at 87

The Hollywood Reporter 23 Jan 2021

He was 87 ... Botkin also worked as an arranger with composers including Phil Spector and Van Dyke Parks and with artists like Dory Previn, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin, Jack Jones, Peggy Lee, The Association, The Everly Brothers, The Supremes, The Ronettes, Connie Stevens, Jose Feliciano, Bobby Gentry and Paul Williams ... .

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Ma Rainey and the unsung women who invented rock ‘n’ roll

NME 21 Dec 2020

In Partnership with Netflix Ma Rainey (1886-1939). The songwriting, performing, venue-owning one-woman music industry Ma Rainey and her Georgia Jazz Band ... Famous fan ... Janis Joplin helped pay for a tombstone to be placed on Bessie Smith’s unmarked grave, an event documented by the singer-songwriter Dory Previn on the song ‘A Stone For Bessie Smith’ ... .

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From Shirley MacLaine's past lives to a composer's flamingo carpet: the Observer culture quiz

The Guardian 28 Jun 2020

“And when you kissed Robert Mitchum / Gee, but I thought that you’d never catch him”? Jonathan Richman Lou Reed Dory Previn Who said “less is a bore”? Charles Jencks Robert Venturi John Pawson Who is “All good already, so moved on, it’s scary” as per her UK No 2 chart hit, ...

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Rave In The Cave: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed By Jeanie Finlay

The Quietus 22 Jun 2020

I remember the weirdest part of that program was, there’s this song I chose called ‘The Lady With The Braid’ by Dory Previn, and the format of the show was she’d ask you the questions, and then when it comes to the record choices you would actually listen to it together.

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Woody Allen’s ‘Apropos of Nothing’—A Review

Quillette 22 Apr 2020

Allen plausibly traces Mia’s accusation that he molested Dylan in the family attic to composer Dory Previn’s song, “With My Daddy in the Attic.” (Previn and Mia Farrow were close friends until Farrow seduced Dory Previn’s husband, Andre ... Allen writes that Dory ...

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Farrow Family Stands by Denunciation of Woody Allen Following Memoir Release

The Hollywood Reporter 25 Mar 2020

The statement is signed by Dylan's siblings Matthew Previn, Sascha Previn, Fletcher Previn, Daisy Previn, Ronan Farrow, Isaiah Farrow, and Quincy Farrow ... Years earlier, he fielded a warning call out of the blue from Dory Previn, ex-wife of conductor Andre Previn, who Farrow was married to from 1970 to 1979.

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Kobe Bryant and Kirk Douglas honoured at Oscars

The Mercury 10 Feb 2020

As Billie Eilish, backed by her brother Finneas O'Connell on piano, sang a stripped back version of The Beatles' 'Yesterday', clips of stars including Rip Torn, Diahann Carroll, Robert Forster, Andre Previn, Doris Day, Peter Fonda, John Singleton and Peter Mayhew were projected onto the screen behind them ... He said ... .