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2008 release, the first-ever compilation to be issued with Dory's approval, who has written a special track-by-track commentary. Drawn from her first four United Artists' albums (released 1970-72), hopefully it's all the evidence needed to explain why Dory Previn is so special. Few singer-songwriters revealed quite such naked emotion, uncompromisingly and candidly laying bare the unhappy experiences suffered. But this was expressed with humor and a lightness of touch that enabled her situation to be identified with. Songs like 'Beware Of Young Girls' and 'With My Daddy In The Attic' explicitly drew on real-life experience, but this confessional approach was intimate and open, not solipsistic. The satire of 'The Midget's Lament' and the narrative of 'Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign' drew on Dory's time in Hollywood, at the heart of big-time show business when she saw the effect it could have. Zonophone.