Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster

[klaustrovian]

Remind me os She-ra - Princess of Power

[maricristinacastel]

who is the singer? reminds me a lot gogol bordello.

[yukikoyuma]

Reminds me of Karl. :D *law of talos reference FTW*

[devimon5000]

@yukikoyuma Karl is awesome, but I prefer Black Ace :3 Didn't expect to see another Talos fan around these parts :D

[yukikoyuma]

@devimon5000 Yep. :) Talos rocks! XD Black Ace makes my blood run cold and my heart swoon~ <3 Those rhymes make a chill go up my spine!

[bazzjedimaster]

remind me of twisted tales of felix the cat

[markdischner]

Wow!

[55Catalog]

Love it

[AndrewJYoungs]

These guys remind me a lot of Caravan Palace.

[RedSkiesAwaitUs]

When I was looking for this song, I accidentally types ''the ghost of Stephen Harper''.. Oh well, a man can dream :)

[kevinrayclark1]

@RedSkiesAwaitUs Yeah. Poor Jack Layton.

[GiannisKypriotakis]

1:01 becoming the best song

[HarryThePaladin]

Love how this takes so much from the stlye of Fleischer's "Minnie the Moocher" cartoon...even the recreation of Cab Calloway dancing in front of the orchestra near the beginning...absolutely fantastic!

[kalkazar13]

I'll bet you anything this was totally inspired by this: /watch?feature=endscreen&v=q4f­XllxQa1Y&NR=1

[Schmelzer96]

Drawn Together -> Toot xD

[RedSkiesAwaitUs]

@Schmelzer96 Mind=blown!

[luisnerey]

Great song! Awesome Video!

[Twilight123Fanatic]

This is my new floor music in gymnastics!!! =D

[satanscorpral]

am i the only one who noticed that the characters were buddy and cookie?

[ViverGulia]

0:48 Their car knew better.

[jacobocampuzano]

me gusta asquerosamente



[3xpektheun3xpekted]

The ghost of Stephen Foster at the hotel paradise, this is what i said to him as I gazed into his eyes! Rooms were made for coffins, towers made for spires, ships were made for cannoniads that fire from its cider

(going to run all night going to run all day) Camptown ladys never sand Oh dah doo dah day oh no no(going to run all night going to run all day)Camptown ladys never sand Oh dah doo dah day oh no no. (LONG INTERMISSION)The ghost of stephen foster at the hotel paradise this is-next page

[Conmando14]

Its "camp town ladies never SANG"

[gacy5150]

Sooo boss!!! i love this video and this song is absolutly amazing

[monkeydevinebb]

Great video for a great song.

[Chenthsdks]

wanna be a member? wanna be a member?

[TheMew4]

@Chenthsdks You win.

[PatrickRsGhost]

@Chenthsdks Probably the best comment I've ever seen for this video. You win the Internet.

[222222sam]

i dont get it

[PatrickRsGhost]

@222222sam What don't you get? If it's Chenthsdks' comment, they're referring to the classic cartoon "Bimbo's Initiation", which a lot of this video is an homage to. The video is really an homage to a lot of the classic cartoons of the time. It opens up very similar to Disney's "Skeleton Dance". The boy looks like Buddy (a long-forgotten Warner Bros. Looney Tunes character), and the girl almost looks like Betty Boop. The animation goes from Disney-ish to Fleischer-ish.

[Gillsing]

I liked the goosebumps at 1:54

[bigts076]

Check out the Preservation Hall Hot 4's "St. James Infirmary".

[jamesharvey]

This is the most spot-on homage to those cartoons I've seen. It's as good as if not better than the old Fleischer Brothers stuff!

[TheTiki5]

Somewhere Max Fleischer is smiling and having a ball

[linecerise]

I miss the good old cartoons like this one..

[RamirezFilmsOfficial]

love the Cab Calloway Minnie the Moocher reference

[devimon5000]

I think at 2:54....*Sunglasses* He got the point. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[devimon5000]

I think at 2:54....*Sunglasses* He got the point. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[devimon5000]

2:54 I think he...*sunglasses*...Got the Point. :3

[MronoC]

Love it. A brilliant homage to the classic Fleischer cartoons. The live action opening with the bizarre take on the Cab Calloway dance was fantastic touch.

[srdjan455]

Someone give these people money so that they can relaunch a Betty Boop cartoon

[yukikoyuma]

..Everytime I hear this song, I think of Karl from Law of Talos. :/ <3

[puremoore]

makes me feel like a jew.... i i i there you go again with that you smuck

[godzilla660]

i wish we could press the like button more than onece and it wuold count. because if it did, this song would have more than 8,000,000,000 likes

[TheKarenGlazier]

YESSSSS!!!!!!! YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! =D !

[merlinforever]

SNZ>. Great Stuff...

[SumArtistGuy]

awesome old school animation



[nuclearplower]

so rad.

[11111971ful]

Ну ни хуря себе!!! КуЧмурунит и Булдырганит!!!



[pietruffa]

i just can't to listen and watch!!

[totallynothere]

Cool tribute to bimbo!

[antisora123222]

Awesome. :0

[Trapezoidal]

Not a good business model.

[BorisDolinskiy]

Excellent mood!!!

[Beddoes13]

It's amazing what you find when you type into youtube "squirrel nut zippers"

[emogothicaXD]

@kingontopbob no worries, I started doing the same xD

[morewbrevealed]

I think those "dislikes" were from peeps trying to increase volume in a hurry

& hit the wrong button :-D

[Thecommander248]

I would still there for a night. Let's do it.

[1864Universe]

50 people are scared of ghosts...

[FatManRedemption]

Everybody please search for Betty Boop Minnie the Moocher (Song Only) so you can see where the idea for this video came from.

[jnathan321]

@IVandelayIndustriesI Yes, indeed, there is a bit of a klezmer influence in this song...I'm Jewish myself and have been threatening to use it - translated into Yiddish - as the Jewish dancing song (my family is rather keen on lifting people up on chairs) when the boyfriend and I get married.

[flyspeckcafe]

Genius.

[acquiescence1]

I loved this song before I got to see this most awesome of videos!!

[kingontopbob]

Is it normal that I've started bouncing along to this? =s

[95DANGER]

@kingontopbob Yes, yes it is :)

[nicknee01]

Saw them dressed to the nines on stage back in '96 or '97. Amazing musicians. It felt like being swept away in time. Stand up bass...banjo...vests...ties...­and a beautiful long skirt...and round straw hat..shiny trombones and trumpets...and so so much energy everywhere.

[LittleSwordMusic]

creepy!!! :)

[TinyClocks]

That dancing in the beginning? That's all I know how to do.

[pastelitoyetzita]

good song its so creative

[sirotti1981]

This song feels like having sex with 3 drunken supermodels during "horror night special"

[bigzebes]

perhaps not

[uchihasi]

wow

[xcesar4impx666]

sooooooo ,,koool ,,,,cool don't even described it

[abaddatom]

@xcesar4impx666 Ice Cold

[bleachpasta]

forty-six people never talked to the ghost of stephen foster.

[kibukun]

A masterpiece!

[waylonwilcox]

This video is fantastic

[hungryhillkid]

you ain't kid in, great tune

[CDeezntz]

I don't know how it happened...But I stumbled on this video and realized I haven't heard this song in ages...It's still as awesome now as the first time I heard it...

[theuniversalonline]

Hey Zippers fans! Go to kickstarter and search Tom Maxwell. He is writing about his time in the Zippers and about his son's cancer battle. Support great art!

[knavlyNdassindor]

Legitimately one of the creepiest and most awesome videos I have ever seen

[cymagen]

@knavlyNdassindor try out the cartoon this was based on...'bimbos initiation'...so much creepier ;)

[ColtonBrook]

@knavlyNdassindor check out "visions of frank" i have a playlist title frank with them :)

[Faleen3]

I wish life was like this, just constantly bobbing along to the beat of an awesome song.

[mypigpile]

kind of looks like a young Betty Boop there...

[PatrickRsGhost]

@mypigpile The boy looks sort of like Buddy from the early Warner Bros. cartoons as well.

[trumpet444]

I remember seeing this video for the first time on direct tv almost 9 years ago! It was some 1 1/2 long special on eccentric/indie animation. Love this video and song!

[ukkfayooyay]

Quite an homage to Betty Boop!

[brikfilm]

45 people use buttons for their nuts.

[sentidoenelamor]

aw scary music video!

[DrLeavingsoon]

Love the Cab Calaway intro

[Bleedingwristsorrow]

hehe i love the name my uncle was like google' squirrell nut zippers X)

[EdMan6623]

When I found out this song and video were made in the late 90s I could hardly believe it. Why aren't there more bands like this?

[pudnog01]

@EdMan6623 There are! just move to Bristol England

[JEdgarGroover]

Just remember, kids...that's Andrew Bird on violin in pretty much all of the Zippers stuff. Not too shabby.

[maithiu]

The start of this reminds me of Betty Boop- Minnie the Moocher.

[PatrickRsGhost]

@maithiu If you watch the "Ask SNZ" video dealing with this video, they tell you that the animation style was inspired by the old Fleischer/Paramount cartoons. The scene of them running away near the end with the hotel clerk's face all over the walls is very reminiscent of "Minnie the Moocher". The scene when they're going down the slide is very similar to "Bimbo's Initiation".

[TsunamiSkweek]

@PatrickRsGhost see also: Snow White

[benderibsk1]

Dislikes = people without musical criterion.

[HOTFIRED]

An absolute favorite, both video, style, and over-all composition!

[dblares]

Whatever happened to being a true artist / musician? THIS IS SO AMAZINGLY INCREDIBLE!!!



[micuchis12]

I have 15 years old and I LOVE this song!! :D

grettings from Argentina ♥

[AccurateMistake]

46 people went to the Hotel Paradise. And were haunted by the ghost of Stephen Foster.

[ThatGirlNamedSarah]

Shit, the best cartoons were the weird ones that didn't make sense.

[carpetmonk]

@ThatGirlNamedSarah look up heidi and the yodelers

[ThatGirlNamedSarah]

The people who dislike this video are the people who grew up watching shit shows like iCarly and Dora the Explorer.

[IVandelayIndsutriesI]

Is it me, or the melody is, somehow, a little bit jewish? With Gypsy influence, obviously.

[MrMawlk]

@IVandelayIndsutriesI

It is! Many different musical styles influence SNZ (such as swing and klezmer [That's the Jewish sound] ). I think it adds to their awesomeness :P.

[PatrickRsGhost]

This is very reminiscent of the old Max and Dave Fleischer cartoons, especially the Betty Boop cartoon "Bimbo's Initiation."

[slimepuke]

There hasn’t been animation of this quality in over 70 years...

[smartalek1]

Vid's like this really make me miss the old 5-star rating system.

At the very least, there oughta be a separate button for "love beyond all reason."

[336forlife]

@smartalek1 "I fuckin love this" Like is such a stupid idea, but all those people who only use facebook are only capable of having one thought on something, 5 star would be too much.

[DarkyJammy]

I love this song! <3

[TheFawful123]

What's this type of music called i must know :(

[EcafDas]

@TheFawful123

They're a fusion of gypsy jazz and 1930s-era swing

[TheElissaS]

The conductor is definetely copying Cab Calloways' dancing. But this is a good video - great job. It's definetely popular with women of my age group.

[lewjones3]

Is this where the got the Robot Hell song from on Futurama?

[lucarioandkatle]

they did a good job on making the violen look like its makeing noise

[TheTinywhiskers]

cool video :D

have you seen Kidda - Smile? its another really well made video

[discodizzuck]

her feet are so tiny! so cuuute! <333

[RubyCosmos]

This is the closest I've seen anyone get to mimicking the old Fleischer style accurately.

[iwuvsweeney]

This video is most popular with:

Male 35-44

Male 45-54

Male 25-34

Now I'm disappointed in both my generation and my gender :C

[perogie34]

@iwuvsweeney Lol, I'm a young female too if that helps. XD

[mywalo]

que cuca de videooo

[uummmdonuts1]

I want to buy this song, and i can't. Dam. Well. Find. It :(

[MsMorga]

@uummmdonuts1 i just bought it offline

[abcpickles]

The beginning reminds me of the way cab Calloway would start at the beginning of old cartoons

[jimban86]

Whiskey made for drinking,

If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha

[masterdanish123]

If you press the 1911 button it actually looks kinda like a old cartoon

[RickAce]

45 people have stayed at Hotel Paradise

[no1more1nicknames]

Why *couldn't*

[no1more1nicknames]

Amazing! Don't worry Squirrel Nut Zippers! You have a younger generation backing you up! Even though I'm pretty much the only person who likes good music in my high school... All this popular crap needs to go find the hole it came out of and die in it... Why could I have been a teen in the 90's when this was popular? Why God? (or any deity of your choice)

[wyformerdiva]

COOOOOOOOOOOLEST vid -- COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLEST band -- been a fan for YEARS and have all their cds!

[brian56t]

i enjoyed this way to much...

[MnesomnesTears]

This absolutely frightens me. Just a little. :D

[boomstick900]

@MnesomnesTears check out Salad Fingers ;)

[101GuitarGal]

Man, we need more bands like this NOW!!! SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kargle1999]

in my pointe class we dance to this song

[karinablacktie]

Crazy fun. Crazy!



[meatwad1142]

Somebody likes Tom Waits

[ralevdotcom]

the vibe is cool and the animation is great ! :)

[ParanormalKitten]

I've been listeneing to these people since elementary/middle school. Oh the wonders <3

[LordJazor]

Note to self: Avoid this hotel.

[anbanana89]

@LordJazor HAHAHAHAH you're funny

[MADEMOISELLEJEZEBELX]

this is badass!

[nirvanagrrl11]

I hated this song when I first heard it but its completely grown on me! Actually love it now haha

[MissyDeRail]

The husband/boyfriend in this cartoon looks like Tex Beneke. Especially that hat, LOL

[Womenareinferior]

If you don't like this song then fuck you.

[MrStewietheking]

So I'm thinking it was a combination of acid weed and mush that inspired this video because god knows that nobody could conceive this when they were sober!

[StopWatchGo]

Inspired madness!

[ZimmyKitten]

42 People are afraid of Ghosts :P

[ZombieShogun]

I swear i hear a little bit of the robot devil in his voice...

[PnthrCntr51]

@ZombieShogun Just a little, haha.

[DrCake11]

Insanity.

[erickdircks]

Excellent piece of work!! Thank you very much for Sharing!!!!!

What a way of meeting people and get to see their talent. At first was reluctant being on youtube, but getting to do this has brought me into the houses of some very special people. You are one of them. Life; isn't it wonderful!!! Keep up the good work. Hope You Are Having A Splendid Day!!!!

A New Friend

Erick

[benmarvin57]

COOL SONG AND COOL FUCKIN VIDEO

[andro12geo]

what the ... inteligence an d fantasy is this ?

[MajorMunchiez]

If Glee cover this were all going going to hell.

[Apoc897]

@MajorMunchiez

Stop watching Glee you immense faggot.

[MajorMunchiez]

@Apoc897

I absolutely do NOT watch Glee. Every other person in my house does. I'd rather lock my self in a box than watch that poorly produced crap.

[anbanana89]

@MajorMunchiez HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

[sacredgeometry]

@anbanana89 I take it that was a joke.

[anbanana89]

@sacredgeometry aaahmmm you better not, Glee is the finest show on tv right now... are you saying those artistic covers of britney spears and the AMAZING story is not up to this video (wich by the way kick ass) hahahaha lol of course JUST JOKING BRO!! ;D

[RickAce]

@MajorMunchiez Yeah and all we know that this is a place where eternally fire is applied to the body teeth are extruded and bones are ground and baked into cakes which are passed around!!!

[devinxdisaster]

@MajorMunchiez if glee covers this, my life will be made

[littlewolf60]

Crazy.

[panoszoo]

/watch?v=MUP6GbUcnTE thats swing!!

[blindlove19]

THIS IS LOVE

[zminemx]

every now and then i love returning to this song and video and sharing it.

is it just me or does this/your band fit perfectly into the grim fandango game?

[0mikr0n]

Walt DISNEY!?

I thought you were DEAD!

[JohnAnonAnonAnon]

Gee, Is Hotel Paradise like My Old Ky Home in Bardstown Ky where Stephen Foster is to have written alot of his songs? Hmmm...... interesting analogy.