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| Producer = [[Jake Sinclair]]
| Producer = [[Jake Sinclair]]
| Status  = Officially released
| Status  = Officially released
| Live debut = [[December 3]], 2016
| Live debut = [[December 3]], [[2016]] in [[Weezer concert: 12/03/2016|Bethlehem, PA]]
| Last played= [[April 9]], [[2017]] in [[Weezer concert: 04/09/2017|Seattle, WA]]
| Spotify = 2dLrkKiddmHEYAQ7fUwfxw
| Spotify = 2dLrkKiddmHEYAQ7fUwfxw
| Apple Music = summer-elaine-and-drunk-dori/id1100739016?i=1100739082
| Apple Music = summer-elaine-and-drunk-dori/id1100739016?i=1100739082
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"'''Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori'''"  is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|The White Album]]''.
"'''Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori'''"  is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|The White Album]]''.
==Overview==  
===Appearances===
Rivers Cuomo has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''. He also expanded on the song's development, both lyrically and sonically, on an episode of the [http://songexploder.net/weezer SongExploder podcast], released on [[April 18]], [[2016]]. In the podcast, Cuomo explained that he compiles a Spotify playlist of songs with "cool chord-progressions" and that he lifted the chord progression from the song "[[Wikipedia:Walk Away Renée|Walk Away Renée]]" by [[Wikipedia:The_Left_Banke|The Left Banke]]. Cuomo titled an early version of the demo "Awaken Early" (a partial anagram of "Walk Away Renée). The final song's title came from an overheard conversation at a party at Rivers' daughter's school. One mother said that their husband called her "School-Year Elaine" during the year and "Summer Elaine" after the school year had ended, and another mother commented that her husband had two names for her as well, one of them being "Drunk Dori". Both mothers were thanked in the liner notes for ''[[The White Album]]''. Cuomo went on to explain that he uses a spreadsheet to compile stream-of-consciousness lyrics by syllable.
*''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]'' (2016)
*''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]'' (2020)
*''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]'' (2020)
==Overview==
The verse lyrics and melody for "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" originate in a demo written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[2002]] ([[Catalog O' Riffs]] entry #405, "[[Don't Give It Up (a)|Don't Give Me Love]]"). Two demo recordings from this period were released in November of [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]'', labeled "oh she left me there" and "pachelbel strum." The latter suggests that the song's chord progression is based on [[Wikipedia:Pachelbel's Canon|Pachelbel's "Canon in D."]]


The verse melody and some lyrics were originally from a [[2002]] demo titled "[[Oh She Left Me There]]."
In April of [[2016]], however, Cuomo spoke of the song's origins on an episode of the podcast ''Song Exploder''.<ref>"Weezer: Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" ''Song Exploder'', 18 April 2016. http://songexploder.net/weezer</ref> explaining that he compiles a Spotify playlist of songs with "cool chord-progressions," and that he lifted the chord progression from the song "[[Wikipedia:Walk Away Renée|Walk Away Renée]]" by [[Wikipedia:The_Left_Banke|The Left Banke]]. Cuomo titled an early version of the demo "Awaken Early" (a partial anagram of "Walk Away Renée). The final song's title came from an overheard conversation at a party at Rivers' daughter's school. One mother said that their husband called her "School-Year Elaine" during the year and "Summer Elaine" after the school year had ended, and another mother commented that her husband had two names for her as well, one of them being "Drunk Dori". Both mothers were thanked in the liner notes for ''[[The White Album]]''. Cuomo went on to explain that he uses a spreadsheet to compile stream-of-consciousness lyrics by syllable. Cuomo has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''.


The song's bridge melody was repurposed from previous demos titled "[[Back of Your Heart]]" and "[[Rest in Peace]]", written prior to the release of ''[[Everything Will Be Alright In The End]]''. Short snippets of Cuomo working on the song in the studio with producer [[Shawn Everett]] were released in a short YouTube clip originally uploaded by Cuomo in January of 2011:
The song's bridge melody was repurposed from previous demos titled "[[Back of Your Heart]]" and "[[Rest in Peace]]", written prior to the release of ''[[Everything Will Be Alright In The End]]''. Short snippets of Cuomo working on "Back of Your Heart" in the studio with producer [[Shawn Everett]] were released in a short YouTube clip originally uploaded by Cuomo in January of 2011.<ref>"new demo for weezer" ''YouTube''. (reupload) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCV4NWGWpo</ref>
==Known recordings==
{{Known recordings header}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]||405 pachelbel strum.mp3|[[2002]]|||1:53|''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|[[Don't Give It Up (a)|Oh She Left Me There]]|405 oh she left me there.mp3|[[2002]]||3:36|''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''|}}


<youtube>beCV4NWGWpo</youtube>
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Sad Skippyjon Jones|sad skippyjon jones 1.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||2:55|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Bridge melody (on piano)}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Sad Skippyjon Jones|sad skippyjon jones 2 in F major.mp3|[[2011]]—[[2014]]||1:23|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Bridge melody (on piano)}}
| bgcolor="ffffaa" colspan="8"|For additional demos, see "[[Back of Your Heart]]" and "[[Rest in Peace]]"
|-
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|[[Don't Give It Up (a)|Don't Give It Up]]|Don't Give It Up&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.mp3|[[February 26]], [[2014]]<ref name="cor400">[[:File:Riversgrandfile-400.png]]</ref>||3:28|''[[Alone XIII: The Pacific Daydream Years]]''|}}


==Audio==
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]||Untitled5 1.mp3|[[2015]]||1:09|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
<youtube>7iIuA6rZK54</youtube>
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]||Untitled6 2.mp3|[[2015]]||0:31|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|summer_Elaine_and_drunk_Dori 1.mp3|[[2015]]||0:31|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
 
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Awaken Early|Awaken Early.mp3|[[2015]]||0:16|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Awaken Early|Awaken Early&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 @118 melody.mp3|[[2015]]||0:34|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Awaken Early|Awaken Early&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4 @118 90s dance.mp3|[[2015]]||0:32|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}


{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3 @11.mp3|[[2015]]||0:29|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|summer_elaine_5_verse.mp3|[[2015]]||1:33|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_6_dont_give_it.mp3|[[2015]]||1:00|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_7_be_my_steady.mp3|?||1:06|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Song sketch; chorus from "[[Be My Steady]]"}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_7_here_comes.mp3|?||1:53|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Song sketch; verse from "[[Here Comes the Girl]]"}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_8_ghost.mp3|?||1:03|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Song sketch; verse melody from "[[Byzantine]]"}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_8_rip.mp3|?||1:12|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Song sketch; bridge melody from "[[Rest in Peace]]"}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_9_fighters.mp3|?||1:01|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|Song sketch; verse melody from "[[We Are Fighters]]"}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|elaine_9_post.mp3|?||0:37|''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|Summer Elaine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6 lyrics @118.mp3|[[2015]]||1:53|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''|}}
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Weezer]]|Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori||[[2015]]—[[2016]]|
*Infrasonic Sound
*The Lair
*Studio X
*United Recording
*The Village|3:25|''[[Weezer (The White Album)]]''|}}
{{Known recordings footer}}
==Live performances==
*[[Weezer concert: 12/03/2016]]
*[[Weezer concert: 12/05/2016]]
*[[Weezer concert: 12/06/2016]]
*[[Weezer concert: 04/09/2017]]
==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – guitar, lead vocals
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*[[Brian Bell]] – guitar, backing vocals
*[[Brian Bell]] – guitar, backing vocals
*[[Scott Shriner]] - bass guitar, backing vocals
*[[Scott Shriner]] - bass guitar, backing vocals
 
==Audio==
<youtube>7iIuA6rZK54</youtube>
==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
<poem>
<poem>
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She left me all alone
She left me all alone
Oh, but I don't care
Oh, but I don't care
No I don't mind at all
No, I don't mind at all
What really happened?
What really happened?
I got distracted
I got distracted
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[[Paranoid Android]]
[[Paranoid Android]]
I felt it in my molecules
I felt it in my molecules
Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
When I'm feeling lonely
I don't want to go
Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
Wish that they would show me
I can't let them go


Slender and tall
Slender and tall
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Sweet piano melodies play
Sweet piano melodies play
Feet crushing Sauvignon grapes
Feet crushing Sauvignon grapes
I hear them whispering, whispering out at the pool
I hear them whispering
Whispering out at the pool
Remember when we were only sixteen
Remember when we were only sixteen
You made me believe in God
You made me believe in God
But when I finally wake
But when I finally wake
Both girls are gone
Both girls are gone
Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
When I'm feeling lonely
I don't want to go
Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
Wish that they would show me
I can't let them go
</poem>
</poem>
==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of Weezer songs]]
*[[List of Weezer songs]]
[[Category: Weezer songs]]
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
[[Category: Rivers Cuomo songs]]
{{Reference list}}
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]]
[[Category: Weezer songs]][[Category: Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]][[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]]
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]]
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