Squirrel Nut Zippers We Hardly Knew Ye

This dovetails with a couple of Teresa's post awhile back about bands she had to break to her son that were no more, and her love of old time cartoon.Been using YouTube to catch up on some of the videos etc. that my non-tv lifestyle has caused.Finally had the sense to type in Squirrel Nut Zippers and found this vid for "The Ghost of Stephen Foster" an EXCELLENT vid as well as a GREAT song.I started doing some research and it seems like they are playing a few gigs in Feb. Ms. Whalen has gone solo, but will be back with part of the band, at least. These guys deifintely weren't just a bunch of people cashing in on the brief swing revival, rehashing old sound (not that there's anything wrong with that) but were some brilliant-yet obviously under appreciated- innovators.Sadly there may have been a reason for the great animation of the video. Supposedly they all hated each other so much by the time "Perenial Favorites" came out that they couldn't be in the same room. Even some songs were recorded piecemeal and then spliced together, not that you can tell. The album is a bit darker in mood, though they always had quite a dallop of that. Anyway. Check this link out and spread the word.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1DISNYj0QU&NR