He was most famous for his rendition of 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' sung in a distinctive high falsetto/vibrato voice (though his normal singing voice was in a standard male range). Herbert Khaury (ApNovember 30, 1996), better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. Dare we speculate he simply loved the songs and the singing of them?Īfter the videos (there are dozens online), I've included much of the biographical essay by Wikipedia. He was very famous for a long time, and then faded from view. The friendly all-night desk clerk confided, 'I don't think he's much like you see on TV. The one or two times I saw him, he was polite and formal. I lived at the Sunset Marquis on Alta Loma, half a block down from Sunset, while I was writing 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.' Tiny Tim was a fellow resident, along with Van Heflin, Roy Scheider, Elaine May, Jackie Gayle and Harold Ramis. He was married to Miss Vicki on the Tonight Show, still one of the top-rated TV shows of all time.

The Beatles asked him to sing 'Nowhere Man' on a bootleg Christmas recording. There was a convention of college newspaper editors, and a few of us - I remember Jeff Greenfield coming along - went to the Black Pusssycat and found ourselves being entertained by a man the likes of whom we'd not seen before. I first saw Tiny Tim very early in his career, in Greenwich Village in the winter of 1962-63.

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