hiltbase.blogg.se

#TINY TIM MOD#
#TINY TIM TV#
#TINY TIM FREE#

Submitters: For original music, use the " I Made This" flair.

#TINY TIM MOD#

Well known tracks will be removed at mod discretion. Saturdays are for fresh and original musicĭedicated to underground artists, your original compositions, and new releases by known artists. Bad discussion posts are subject to removal on any day.

If your post is "low effort" or looks like just another way of posting streaming music, then it will be removed. If you have an interesting story behind the music, you can add this in the comments or as self-post text.įriday is for interesting discussions, not streaming music. No artist reposts for 30 days if the previous post broke 100 points Optional additional text may only be included after this part of the title.

Follow us on twitter for AMA announcements and a selection of top links.Īll submissions of streaming songs and albums must follow this format or will be removed.

That one stuck.Are you a musician? Read our guide to promoting your music. He tried others - Dary Dover, Sir Anthony Timms - and then, one fateful night, when the 6'1" tall Khaury was sharing the bill with some diminutive performers, his manager had the bright idea to bill his client with the ironic name of Tiny Tim. In 1959, he was calling himself Larry Love, the Singing Canary, and performing in Times Square at Hubert's Museum and Live Flea Circus. (His mother was, reportedly, a bit worried about her son, and wanted to have his head examined at New York's famous Bellvue Hospital.) He wore outrageous outfits and adopted long-haired, white-faced look inspired by a cinema hero of the era he so loved, Rudolph Valentino. Foxglove, Vernon Castle, and Emmett Swink.

#TINY TIM FREE#

In the '50s, he played songs like "You Are My Sunshine" at amateur nights or otherwise free shows as Texarkana Tex, Judas K. When Khaury began playing his strange ukulele music, he ran through a number of different personae, trying to find the one that seemed just right. He was the oddest of oddballs at a time when American music and entertainment was going to some pretty weird places. Tiny Tim was famous for "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and a handful of other tunes not because they were really enjoyable to listen to (when's the last time you put on your old Tiny Tim records?) but because he performed them with so much conviction. And he loved them back - after all, what sort of man gets married on a talk show? One who understands the nature of his own celebrity completely.

#TINY TIM TV#

Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, and Tiny Tim's evocation of gramophone ditties and a bygone era endeared him to TV audiences. If the counterculture considered itself a nonconformist movement - ukulele-toting Tiny Tim, "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" and all, was the nonconformists' nonconformist. What was up with this guy? Right there in the midst of the tumult of the late '60s, as the Woodstock generation was trying to reach e better place through peace, love, music and drugs, Tiny Tim was an entertainer who was - as the saying went at the time - doing his own thing. He was known for playing his ukulele on TV shows, singing songs from a different era in his high falsetto voice, as bewildered hosts looked on. Tiny Tim, the "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" singer, was an odd one - even by '60s standards.