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Elenore发行于1968年9月，收录在专辑Present The Battle Of The Bands。这首歌听上去非常欢乐可爱，但实际上它是乐队5名成员共同完成的一个讽刺作品。

1967年2月，乐队发行了Happy Together，3月25日冲到了Billboard第一名，算是他们最出名的大热单曲。次年，制作新专辑时，他们想像同时期其他乐队一样，制作更多样化的音乐，但是唱片公司WHITE WHALE却不同意，为了保证销量，希望他们延续之前的风格，就像Happy Together那样简单轻快的流行歌曲。

叛逆的年轻人们当然得跟公司对着干。想要那种老套的小情歌？好，那我们就堆各种陈词滥调给你们看。 

于是，成员们一起写出了Elenore这样轻快的调调，并配上了简单直白表达爱慕之情的歌词，以此讽刺这类毫无内涵肤浅平庸的歌曲。

让他们意外的是，唱片公司并没有get到他们的恶作剧，反而觉得这是首很棒的歌曲，认真进行了后期制作，最后这首歌冲到了BILLBOARD第六名。

仔细看看歌词，"Your looks intoxicate me/ Even though your folks hate me / There's no one like you, Elenore, really""Elenore, gee, I think you're swell / And you really do me well / You're my pride and joy, et cetera..."，真是小学生作文。。歌词里的"Pride and Joy"原为"Fab and Gear"，可能是制作人觉得过于粗俗所以改掉了。

贴一段Howard Kaylan在精选Solid Zinc里的介绍：

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.