here's something you're sure to like

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In case you don't have easy access to a copy of this superb video -- my pick for the best animated video EVAH -- here's an online version of The Squirrel Nut Zippers doing "The Ghost of Stephen Foster" with black and white faux-Fleischer that is absolutely convincing. One of their CDs has the video on it. I think it's "Bedlam Ballroom." Anyway, it's a Christmas present, of a sort.

Ho Ho Ho!
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Re: Stephen Foster

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I have long cherished the thought that Foster's songs are truly immortal, but only time will tell. Me, I prefer them in their original format, albeit in arrangements that put melody and accompaniment in two hands at the piano.

I'll bet there's some good stuff on that CD.

By the way, my self-imposed goal this holiday season is to play through all 190+ pages of my book, "Gems of the Universe." It's number 7 in the famous "Everybody's Favorites" series, and it's a nice basic collection of standard songs that I found, coverless, at a thrift shop in Statesboro, Georgia, during the wandering years. Things keep calling me away from the piano (by name), but I'm on page 75 now. It's the opera section, more or less, with some art songs and elite parlor songs, and I hope it's the only part of the book that really cheats and just gives accompaniments with no melody line woven in.