Forgot a couple from my earlier post: Be Bop Deluxe and Lil' Georgie and the Shufflin' Hungarians. BBD was semi-popular back in the day, but I understand that Bill Nelson was a pain and things fell apart.
Lil' Georgie was a Northeast / Mid-Atlantic regional band in the 90s that succumbed to the same thing: George Rossi was a very talented writer, pianist and vocalist, but his ego killed the project just at the moment they were taking off.