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A brief essay by playwright Jordan Harrison on DORIS TO DARLENE

The seed of Doris to Darlene is ten short seconds of a seldom-heard 1966 Ronettes single called “When I Saw You,” produced by Phil Spector. One of Spector’s more languid songs, its lyrics are characteristically undemanding: “When I saw you / That’s when I knew / I’d lose my mind over you.” But at the very end...

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