Tiny Tim (musician)
Tiny Tim (a pseudonym after a character in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ), civil Herbert Buckingham Khaury, ( born April 12, 1932 in New York, NY, USA, † November 30, 1996 in Hennepin County, Minnesota ) was a U.S. American pop musician and entertainer. He is considered one of the most colorful and at the same time the most obscure figures in pop history.
Biography
Herbert Buckingham Khaury was in New York, the son of Lebanese Boutros Hanna Khaury († April 2, 1971 ) and the Polish Tillie Staff (January 15, 1893 - July 9, 1986 ) was born. Little is known about his childhood. Allegedly, he was already starting very early, his face pale to powder, make-up to red cheeks and let his hair grow long. This gave him a for the 1940s and 1950s rather exotic appearance.
His contemporaries impressed especially his enormous musical knowledge. After being under the name Julian Foxglove, Larry Love or Derry Dover, had accompanying himself, the passengers sang on the ukulele, among other things in subways something was Tiny Tim eventually become in the 1960s a fixture of American subculture and no later than widely known after his performance at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival 1970 in Europe.
In 1970 he made headlines when he, the then 17 -year-old Victoria Mae Budinger, called Miss Vicky married before live TV cameras. The marriage produced a daughter emerged called Tulip ( Tulip dt ), which he had named after his only hit single Tiptoe Through The Tulips (German Tiptoe Through the Tulips ).
1977, shortly after his divorce, he married January Alweiss. However, this latter compound did not last long, and even Tiny Tim's fame was at this time after. He suffered from alcoholism and diabetes. After a comeback in 1988, he was creative again and made new studio recordings that were not published until 1995. Meanwhile, he married his third wife, Sue Gardner.
End of 1996, Tiny Tim died of cardiac arrest after a previous infarction. Photos showed the entertainer in the coffin laid out with his ukulele, which should have been given him to the grave.
Image and musical work
There was a marked next to his voice, which varied between falsetto soprano and baritone, his unusual physiognomy. He was 1.90 meters tall and slender, at the advanced age but quite full-bodied, and wore mostly something small and very tight -fitting suits. He also had a distinctive hook nose.
Initially he was moving musically in the tradition of vaudeville and revue singing, but also attacked popular pop hits of its time, for which he accompanied himself on his ukulele. From about the mid-1970s, with increasing fame, he developed his style towards pop and glam rock.
His song Living in the Sunlight was for the first episode ( " Help Wanted ") of the series SpongeBob SquarePants used.
Discography
- April Showers. (1966)
- God Bless Tiny Tim. (1968)
- Tiny Tim's Second Album. (1968)
- Tip Toe Through The Tulips With Me (1968 )
- The Beatles ' 1968 Christmas Record ( 1968)
- For All My Little Friends. (1969)
- The Eternal Troubadour. (1986)
- Tiny skirt. (1992)
- Song Of An Impotent Troubadour. (1994)
- Girl. (1996)
- Tiny Tim's Christmas Album (1996 )