Tiny Tim's real name was Herbert Khaury. He was born in 1932 and died in 1996 after suffering a heart attack onstage at a gala benefit show in Minneapolis. He was in the middle of his umpteenth rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in his familiar falsetto singing voice with simple ukulele accompaniment.
In the early sixties he was part of the Greenwich Village music and arts scene in Greenwich Village, New York and was friendly with Bob Dylan who had just blown in from Minnesota. Later he met John Lennon who said of him, "He’s the greatest ever, man!… the greatest fella on earth!”
I first encountered Tiny Tim in the late summer of 1970. I had never heard of him before and there he was on stage at The Isle of Wight Festival singing incongruously and joyfully his most famous song and the vast crowd joined in with him. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was first a hit in 1929 after featuring in the film "Gold Diggers of Broadway" but Tiny Tim claimed it as his own...
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