Posted on 05/02/2021 10:44:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A nice man who entertained us with song and humor. RIP!
I remember cracking up watching him sing “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”.
Me too
Honey
There ain’t no such thing as half gay
That’s a wishful thinking canard promulgated by English boarding school queers in denial who joined MI-6 in the Cold War.....and subsequently sold us out
I looked him up on Wiki, and there’s nothing to indicate he’s gay. He was married three time: 8 years, 11 years, and the third one was about a year before he died.
He was not faking. He really was that weird. Harmless guy.
I still have that album in my collection! He demonstrates his vocal range on that album in a song titled: “Daddy, Daddy, What is Heaven Like?”
In highschool i earned a 3 day suspension for the unauthorized broadcast of Tiptoe thru the tulips to a gym full of people during a basketball game.
RIP. Tiny Tim looked and sounded weird. His appearance on early 70’s tv shows was weird, like viewing a car accident. He should have prayed more and worry about fames less.
I set up the sound and lights in the afternoon then returned to work the show later that evening. When I returned to the club about 1/2 an hour before show time, the club was very sparsely populated.
Around 9:30pm Tiny Tim took the stage and started with "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." Within two minutes the club owner, someone straight out of the Sopranos, walked up to me behind the sound board. He was pissed. He looked at me and said, "What the f*ck is this sh*it?" Apparently when he booked Tiny Tim he had no idea how "unique" he was. Lol!
Then there's the story of a John Sebastian gig I did during which a similar Sopranos character came up to me during the show saying he wanted to "Smash that f*ckin' guitar over his head."
Good times!
I saw him live at the Camelot lounge and club in Brooklyn in the late 60s? I went for the sideshow appeal because there was absolutely nothing to like. 😆
If it was 20 years ago, that was a special show. It says he died in the 90s!
Tim made the very old song incredibly popular again. There are hundreds of covers of Tiptoe on Youtube. It’s a beautiful melody and the lyrics are sweet.
If you have a chance, check out Nick Lucas singing it way back in 1929.
Nick Lucas Troubadours - Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me 1929
Looks like Phyllis Diller on the left.
It was.
And 40 million people tuned in to see the wedding.
40 million.
Good luck getting ratings like that anymore.
Howard Stern upsets Tiny Tim about Jesus:
https://youtu.be/-5KMjk1UrDk
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