Dory Previn: the lady with the braid. 1971
There just aren’t enough mentions of crocheting in pop anymore….
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. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia)
I’m quite enjoying this at the moment. A lot of her other stuff is a bit too arch and musical theatre for me.
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