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Opened in 1947, Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, is the bizarre tourist location featured in the promo to Supergrass’s low key 2005 single Low C:

As you’ve hopefully gathered from the video above, Weeki Wachee is famous for its performances by ‘mermaids’. It’s an odd place, and one probably best explained by a visit to its website.

Possibly even odder is the population of the city of Weeki Wachee itself - a mammoth twelve according to a 2004 census. That doesn’t make it the smallest in the US - that honour goes to Maza, Dakota - but the springs make sure that the city enters the record books as they’re the country’s deepest, measured at 403 feet.

And back to the video itself, Hernando Today (the full article is available to read at Supergrass.tv) explains more:

Director Garth Jennings visited the park as a child and when the band approached him with the single, Jennings said he thought of the park immediately and wrote the video around it.

The 10-member crew also filmed scenes on the park’s riverboat and at the homes of former Mermaid Barbara and current Mermaid Carli as she got ready for her shift at the park.

“It’s an affectionate portrait of this place,” said Jennings, who has directed other videos for Supergrass. “I thought it would be interesting to see the amazing people behind it and how special that all is.”

Now a hard to find single, your best bet of getting hold of Low C is on the band’s fifth album - Road To Rouen.