Directed in 1979 by John Lamb, it is the first American rotoscoped music video, and was released two years before the advent of MTV.
The film never saw commercial release and sat in obscurity for 30 years, when it went quietly viral on YouTube.
Filmed live at the La Brea Stage in Hollywood in six takes and edited down to five and a half minutes, the live frames were traced using a "video rotoscope" and then converted by hand into animation.
This particular combination of rotoscoping and pencil test, originally developed for Ralph Bakshi's American Pop, was considered innovative at the time, and assisted in winning Lyon Lamb a 1980 Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement.
[1] The film's production team consisted of a wide range of industry professionals which includes: Recently, a cel from Tom Waits for No One became part of the Tom Waits permanent exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.