Julia Greenberg Sings Dory Previn

Bio:

Dory Previn’s extraordinary musical career remains relatively unexamined despite the fact that when she and her ex-husband, Andre Previn, were a songwriting team they penned songs for Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra and wrote the theme from Valley of the Dolls, which spent four weeks in the number two slot on the Billboard charts just behind the Beatles. As a singer-songwriter, she released seven critically acclaimed albums in seven years. She sang about scream therapy before John Lennon, Jarvis Cocker chose one of her songs as his “desert island disc”, Belle and Sebastian consider her a favorite and the Scottish band Camera Obscura have a song called “Dory Previn”. Julia Greenberg, an NYC-based songwriter, performer and theater composer (Off-Broadway Shows People Are Wrong! and Cavedweller) began interpreting Previn’s music at such venues as Joe’s Pub and the 92YTribeca in New York and at the modern art museum Mass MoCa in Massachusetts. She has also been interviewed about Previn’s life and music on public and satellite radio.

Member Since:

August 15, 2007

Members:

The people depend on the project. Her band is Jeremy Chatzky on Bass, Mark Bosch on Guitar, James Mastro on Guitar and Keyboards and Frank Vilardi on Drums. Sometimes she enjoys playing trio shows with Jeremy Chatzky on upright bass and Will Holshouser on Accordion When she writes songs she does it with people like Robin Goldie Goldwasser, James Mastro, Mark Bosch and Jeremy Chatzky. She also wrote some theater music with Stephen Trask.

Sounds Like:

Mary Martin and Sam Phillips.

Record Label:

Unsigned