Tiny Tim: Summary
- Recent Role:
- subject on E! True Hollywood Story
- Gender:
- Male
- Birthday:
- 4-12-1930
- Death:
- 11-30-1996
- Birthplace:
- New York, USA
- Birth Name:
- Herbert Khaury
Eccentric entertainer Tiny Tim played regularly on the New York Greenwich Village circuit during the early/mid-60s. With his warbling voice, long scraggly hair and camp mannerisms, he specialized in show tunes dating back to the musicals of the 20s. Following an appearance in the movie You Are What You Eat, he secured a regular spot on the highly rated Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In comedy series. The comic incongruity of this middle-aged man, who sang in a cracked falsetto and played the ukulele proved novel enough to warrant a Top 20 US hit in 1968 with "Tip Toe Through The Tulips With Me".
Several albums and tours followed and at the height of his media fame he attracted a mass audience for his live television marriage on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show to the young girl he called "Miss Vicky" (Victoria May Budinger). His professed celibacy and highly moral sexual standpoint created instant copy and the controversial marriage was well chronicled, from the birth of baby Tulip, to the divorce court.
By the early 70s the Tiny Tim fad had passed, and having lost his contract with Reprise Records he continued to issue singles on small independent labels, to little success. In the late 80s Tim completed a cassette-only release, The World's Longest Non-Stop Singing Record, which was recorded live in Brighton, England.
He subsequently moved to Australia where he became acquainted with graphic artist Martin Sharp, who designed Cream's distinctive Wheels Of Fire sleeve as well as several covers of Oz magazine. Sharp's work graced Tiny Tim Rocks, a disappointing mélange of the singer's high falsetto and ill-fitting hard rock, but his version of AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" achieved modest sales. During the 90s, known as Mr. Tim, the singer returned to the USA to live in Des Moines, Iowa, "because it's clean." In 1993 he married for a third time, and lived in Minneapolis with "Miss Sue" until his death in 1996.
DISCOGRAPHY: God Bless Tiny Tim (Reprise 1968)***, Tiny Tim's Second Album (Reprise 1969)***, For All My Little Friends (Reprise 1969)**, With Love And Kisses: A Concert from Fairyland (Bouquet 1968)**, Tiny Tim, Michelle Ramos And Bruce Haack (Ra-Jo International 1986)**, Rock (Regular 1993)**, I Love Me (Seeland 1995)**, Live In Chicago (Bughouse 1995)**, Songs Of An Impotent Troubadour (Durtro 1995)**, Tiny Tim's Christmas Album (Durtro 1995)***, Unplugged (Tomanna 1996)**, with Brave Combo Girl (Rounder 1996)**.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Tiny Tim, Harry Stein.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 2002 Eccentric entertainer Tiny Tim played regularly on the New York Greenwich Village circuit during the early/mid-60s. With his warbling voice, long scraggly hair and camp mannerisms, he specialized in show tunes dating back to the musicals of the 20s. Following an appearance in the movie You Are What You Eat, he secured a regular spot on the highly rated Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In comedy...
Several albums and tours followed and at the height of his media fame he attracted a mass audience for his live television marriage on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show to the young girl he called "Miss Vicky" (Victoria May Budinger). His professed celibacy and highly moral sexual standpoint created instant copy and the controversial marriage was well chronicled, from the birth of baby Tulip, to the divorce court.
By the early 70s the Tiny Tim fad had passed, and having lost his contract with Reprise Records he continued to issue singles on small independent labels, to little success. In the late 80s Tim completed a cassette-only release, The World's Longest Non-Stop Singing Record, which was recorded live in Brighton, England.
He subsequently moved to Australia where he became acquainted with graphic artist Martin Sharp, who designed Cream's distinctive Wheels Of Fire sleeve as well as several covers of Oz magazine. Sharp's work graced Tiny Tim Rocks, a disappointing mélange of the singer's high falsetto and ill-fitting hard rock, but his version of AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" achieved modest sales. During the 90s, known as Mr. Tim, the singer returned to the USA to live in Des Moines, Iowa, "because it's clean." In 1993 he married for a third time, and lived in Minneapolis with "Miss Sue" until his death in 1996.
DISCOGRAPHY: God Bless Tiny Tim (Reprise 1968)***, Tiny Tim's Second Album (Reprise 1969)***, For All My Little Friends (Reprise 1969)**, With Love And Kisses: A Concert from Fairyland (Bouquet 1968)**, Tiny Tim, Michelle Ramos And Bruce Haack (Ra-Jo International 1986)**, Rock (Regular 1993)**, I Love Me (Seeland 1995)**, Live In Chicago (Bughouse 1995)**, Songs Of An Impotent Troubadour (Durtro 1995)**, Tiny Tim's Christmas Album (Durtro 1995)***, Unplugged (Tomanna 1996)**, with Brave Combo Girl (Rounder 1996)**.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Tiny Tim, Harry Stein.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 2002 Eccentric entertainer Tiny Tim played regularly on the New York Greenwich Village circuit during the early/mid-60s. With his warbling voice, long scraggly hair and camp mannerisms, he specialized in show tunes dating back to the musicals of the 20s. Following an appearance in the movie You Are What You Eat, he secured a regular spot on the highly rated Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In comedy...
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