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"Oh, the screwed-up spelling of ELENORE didn't help, either. How many damn ways are they to spell that name? ELENORE, gee your folks can't spell!"

That's Rex Parker carping about today's NYT crossword, and I'm just glad to get a prompt to listen to this fantastic song once again:



Parker captions the clip "You're my pride and joy, et cetera...." The "et cetera" in the song "Elenore" is sometimes pointed to as if it's just inexplicably lame. What kind of love song stops abruptly in the middle of a string of praise and says "et cetera"? But I'd say the kind of love song that is making fun of love songs. The whole thing is a hilarious romp (and I associate those 2 Turtles frontmen with the Frank Zappa of "Fillmore East — June 1971," so it makes perfect sense to me that it's a satire of pop music).

I enjoy Rex Parker's carping, let me assure you. I especially liked "ELENORE, gee your folks can't spell!" (quoted in the post title). It's a twist on the actual song lyric, "Elenore, gee I think you're swell." Notice the silliness of that line too. It's making fun of pop love songs. "Swell" is a very lame compliment.

I'm also amused by the couplets "Your looks intoxicate me/Even though your folks hate me" and "I really think you're groovy/Let's go out to a movie." The whole thing's a big joke.

The Wikipedia article on the song quotes Howard Kaylan (the lead singer who wrote the lyrics):

Elenore was a parody of "Happy Together." It was never intended to be a straight-forward song. It was meant as an anti-love letter to White Whale [Records], who were constantly on our backs to bring them another "Happy Together." So I gave them a very skewed version. Not only with the chords changed, but with all these bizarre words. It was my feeling that they would listen to how strange and stupid the song was and leave us alone. But they didn't get the joke. They thought it sounded good. Truthfully, though, the production on "Elenore" WAS so damn good. Lyrically or not, the sound of the thing was so positive that it worked. It certainly surprised me.

"Fillmore East — June 1971" — one of my all-time favorite records — is also a satire on "Happy Together." Wikipedia:

Frank and the Mothers then portray stereotypically egotistical members of a rock band "negotiating" with a groupie and her girlfriends for a quick "roll in the hay." The girls are insulted that the band thinks they are groupies and that they would sleep with the band just because they are musicians. They have standards; they will only have sex with a guy in a group with a "big, hit single in the charts – with a bullet!" and a "dick that’s a monster." In "Bwana Dik", singer Howard Kaylan assures the girls that he is endowed beyond their "wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies." And, not to be put off by the standards of these groupies, the band sings the girls the Turtles (of which Kaylan, Volman, and Pons had been members) hit "Happy Together", to give them their "bullet". 

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