Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Democratic Underground

DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:03 AM
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Tiny Tim, 1968. Greatest falsetto ukelele player of all time.

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greatauntoftriplets

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:04 AM
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1. How many falsetto ukelele players have there been?

LOL.

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:08 AM
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3. Obviously you've never heard of "Larry Love"!

Greenwich Village, 1950s.

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BrotherBuzz

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:47 AM
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9. Herbert Khaury (19??-1996) was Larry Love AKA

Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 12:57 AM by BrotherBuzz

'Tiny Tim', Emmett Swink, Julian Foxglove, Darry Dover, Rollie Dell, Larry Love.....

Johnny Carson soundbite of Tiny Tim (1969):
Listen

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 01:01 AM
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10. Right, I was being "cute"

but you get a gold star for research!

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BrotherBuzz

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Sun Dec-14-03 01:08 AM
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12. I didn't research anything...

Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 01:15 AM by BrotherBuzz

My wacky neighbor painted that Uke.

http://www.geocities.com/artandnoveltyhut/

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 02:14 AM
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15. Too Cool!

Someone else started a Tiny thread a while back. It dropped about as fast as this one :) One thing a lot of people don't know about him is that he was profoundly knowledgeable about popular music of the 1920s and 30s and committed to preserving the memory of the songs and their performers.

I once read a fantastic article (since vanished from the web) in defense of Tiny Tim, written by someone in the music industry who was incensed by a slur Pat Boone had uttered about Tiny when Pat was releasing his own "Heavy Metal" abomination.

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:11 AM
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5. Or Vern Castle or Darry Dover!

Who's laughing now, greatauntoftriplets, Mwa ha ha! :P

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johnnie

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:05 AM
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2. LOL...

I saw him at a county fair years ago. He was actually pretty good.

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Archae

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:10 AM
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4. The funniest part about Tiny Tim

Was he was a rabid right-winger.

Just imagine Rush after getting a good hard kick in the nuts, and you'll know what it's like to hear Tiny Tim talk politics.

(I saw him do this years and years ago.)

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:15 AM
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6. Do you have any backup for this?

He started expressing hallmark-card Jesus sentiments in the later years of his life, but I never heard of any right-wing politics coming from him.

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Archae

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:19 AM
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7. The only one I can think of...

This book written by an ex-talent coordinator for the Johnny Carson show.

Tiny Tim's politics is mentioned there.

Otherwise, I'm just going on this time I saw him (maybe on "Politically Incorrect?") talking politics and not singing, and Tiny Tim was so far-right he fell off the keyboard.

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 12:46 AM
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8. Very interesting, Archae, thanks.

I'll have to see if I can find out more about his Politically Incorrect appearance.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Sun Dec-14-03 01:04 AM
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11. A ukulele classmate

brought a recording of Tiny Tim live in Chicago to class and I ripped a copy. I didn't catch the venue or date but he was backed by the New Duncan Imperials. What fun that show must have been!

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 02:03 AM
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13. I've heard that he was a great entertainer

Even into old age. He didn't draw much of a crowd in his later years, but the people who would go just raved about how great the shows were.

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DivinBreuvage

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Sun Dec-14-03 02:04 AM
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14. as johnnie pointed out in post 2. n/t

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