Dory Previn

Dory Previn released an Album called "Mythical Kings and Iguanas".

It features a song about Janis Joplin and how she bought a grave stone for famous blues singer Bessie Smith who died in poverty.JJ was pretty young and just making some cash when she bought the stone.The song goes on to talk about Janis' early death.

Another song called "Lemon Haired Ladies" is about when her husband Andre Previn left her for Mia Farrow

One song with the lyrics "goin home is such a ride" is similar to Camera Obscura's "Dory Previn" in that it yearns and analyses about love.

Another song about the Hollywood sign is based on the story of a starlet who jumped from the Hollywood sign.

Most of the work on Mythical Kings is autobiographical, funny, sad and easy to identify with.

that first bit is lovely - "fed up with girls in pretty dresses, with boys who want to teach them a lesson..." timeless :)

It's very difficult to put someone out of one's mind even if the feelings and thoughts for him/her do not hold any affection. It's just habit and not obsession, but something else. It's a very tough thing to do.

according to wiki: Dory Previn was a singer/songwriter/poet. She did the soundtrack to the Valley of the Dolls. She and her first husband, André Previn, received several Academy Award nominations for their joint efforts in motion picture songwriting.

Don't know much about Dory and Andre's relationship although i hear it was stormy but for me, ouch. Was just left by one of those "girls in pretty dresses" after eight years but when i first heard this song it sounded to me like something she might have been singing just before she cheated on me and split. Like i said, Ouch.

The only reason its called 'Dory Previn' is that she listens to her to soothe the pain of her break up. 'how I adore you Dory Previn... I turn you up to 11', I liked the All Music Guide review that made Dory Previn to be some other girl rocking out in the basement with the singer, girl-crush sort of thing...

Tracyanne Campbell is one of my favorite female songwriters, 'Lets Get Out..' is a great break-up album, this song is the saddest one..

Terribly sad song, need tissues every time I listen. Tears for Affairs, too. Ok, slightly adjusted lyrics for this song with timing-appropriate punctuation:

Fed up of girls in pretty dresses, With boys who, want to teach them a lesson, Sick of the sight of my old lover, Went under sheets and covers, to get away from him,

He can't see what it once meant to me, So I think it's time, put him out of my mind,

So I took a glimpse of Montana, now nothing else matters, I'll heal eventually, How I adore you Dory Previn, I turned you up to eleven, for the band's ears to bleed,

I can't see what he once meant to me, Do you think it's time, put him out of my mind? Do you think it's time, put him out of my mind?

I can't see what he once meant to me, Do you think it's time, put him out of my mind? I can't see what he once meant to me, So I think it's time, I put him out of my mind,

Yeh I think it's time, I put him out of my mind, I think it's time, I let my love for him die.