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(ukulele music)
(singing in falsetto)
♪ They say our love won't pay the rent ♪
♪ Before it's earned our money's always spent ♪
♪ Well I don't know we ain't got no plot ♪
♪ Still I'm sure of all the love we got ♪
♪ Babe ♪
♪ I got you babe ♪
♪ Some people say your hair's so long ♪
♪ I don't care, with you I can't go wrong ♪
♪ So put your little hand in mine ♪
♪ Ain't no mountain or valley we can't climb ♪
♪ Babe ♪
♪ I got you babe, I got you babe ♪
(singing in falsetto)
- This is army sergeant Bob Martin
on the scene of Beat Club in Bremen Germany,
and I have with my today, god bless, Tiny Tim.
- Going through the city for almost 10 years,
13 years, at least, being as a freak.
It was really the challenge I tried to overcome,
because in all fairness, by 1962,
every friend of mine and every relative
had given up on me.
They would come into my mother's house
and just shake their head when they saw me
and walk the other way. - That's amazing.
- That's why I believe you're talking
to the biggest miracle perhaps ever
in the history of show business,
because while there were people who did suffer
hard and starve and went through all this,
they never had to go through the art
of being a freak,
and make it at the same time.
I don't know anyone who has done it.
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Tiny Tim!
(soft atmospheric music) - Ladies and gentlemen--
- The one and only-- - New York City's own--
- Tiny Tim! - Tiny Tim!
- [Announcer] (echoing) Tiny Tim!
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Dear Lord,
today I had an awful day.
I am the biggest star in the country.
What I have is desired by almost everyone,
and yet, oh blessed Lord, my soul is dwelling in Hell,
and I cry out for help, oh Jesus.
♪ When you're strange ♪
(audience cheering)
♪ Faces come out of the rain ♪
♪ When you're strange ♪
♪ No one remembers your name ♪
- Tiny Tim's on next! (audience applauding)
♪ When you're strange ♪
- Who is this?
Where did he come from?
Who dropped him here?
- His sexual ambiguity, political ambiguity,
ethnic ambiguity, it's all ambiguous with Tiny Tim.
- I feel like someone from Mars come to Earth.
- He took all the male female adult child
and just kind of put it into a blender
and hit the button.
(cackling menacingly)
And then I immediately thought
that's the man I want to marry.
♪ Strange ♪
♪ I treasure the grace of her sweet smiling face ♪
♪ The Bible my mother left for me ♪
(clapping)
- Tiny's widow is here.
My name is Johnny Pineapple.
I was Tiny's closest friend,
and we're actually in the middle
of shooting a documentary.
- Oh my gosh. (gasping)
- So this is very exciting
that in the time of your loss,
you know, are here for a funeral,
but God bless you, decided to come down
and just see where Tiny is resting.
Let me show you.
Come on in.
He was born Herbert Butros Khaury.
And of course everybody knows him as Tiny Tim.
- [Man] Is he from here?
- Good question.
Actually he was a New York City guy,
born and raised in New York City in 1932.
(nostalgic band music)
(bells tolling)
- When you look at where Herbert Khaury begins
and Tiny Tim ends, nothing was ever normal
from top to bottom, from start to finish.
So why should his birth be normal?
- If they had waited to do that cesarean
another minute or two, he would have lived out his life
in the rehabilitation hospital, in a wheelchair
or in bed.
- His mother Tillie is from a Russian Jewish family,
and his father, Butros,
is from a Lebanese Christian family.
That was unheard of, especially a Jew marrying an Arab
in those days was pretty unusual.
(dark atmospheric music)
- [Bernie] He had a violent relationship with mom and dad.
They had him, they took care of him.
I don't think they ever loved him.
- Tiny described to me many times
my parents' room had no door.
There was no door on their room.
No door.
And he was agitated.
And he couldn't leave his room
without walking into their private space.
(cranking)
(static buzzing)
- He had Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Arthur Godfrey,
and his ukulele.
He would play them 30 times a night,
and it would turn him on so.
♪ Like a shivered sea ♪
♪ I'm just lost in a fog ♪
♪ My mind is hazy ♪
♪ My thoughts are blue ♪
♪ Guess I'll always be ♪
♪ Kind of lost in the park without you ♪
♪ Waiting night and day ♪
♪ Like a bump on a log ♪
♪ I'm going crazy ♪
♪ Why can't you ♪
♪ Help me find my life ♪
♪ Because I'm ♪
- [Man] Herbert!
(record scratching) (romantic dreamy music)
- His parents were elderly, and they really tolerated him,
but they didn't understand him,
so he locked himself in his room,
and in his imagination, with another life,
invented his reality,
invented people in his loneliness
to take him away from that spot.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Had a violent clash with my mother.
She broke my records and my mandolin.
I was thrown out of the house
and stood in the cold rain for three hours.
- Was a particularly rough time in his life.
His parents are getting ready to throw him out of the house.
He wasn't making any money.
He decided he had to do something,
so he took the subway down to the financial district,
sat on the sidewalk with a sign
help save classical music.
(cheerful ukulele music) (car horns blaring)
♪ Was a lovely April shower ♪
♪ It was the most haunting and dark ♪
- [Man] You prick!
- The first time I saw Herbert
was when he was standing on the street
with his ukulele.
He really enjoyed it.
- [Man] Fuck you!
(laughing raucously)
♪ I hung around til three or four ♪
- [Bernie] They got mad because he was so damn weird,
and all they wanted to do was kill him,
throw eggs at him, garbage cans, anything.
(crashing)
- [Man] Get fucking wrecked, you faggot!
(sad atmospheric music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Another wasted day
of my life has passed.
All in all, today was just another day of thinking.
Will I be a success in singing?
What is my future?
However, my main objective is to be
self-confident with girls.
My father insisted today that I see a psychiatrist,
but I said Jesus Christ is my doctor.
♪ I had a crazy feeling ♪
♪ The first time we met ♪
(marker squeaking)
- [Narrator] What Jimmy didn't know
was that Ralph was sick,
a sickness of the mind.
You see, Ralph was a homosexual.
- Tiny was what I call half-gay,
which means that his problem
had more to do with identity
than with sexual preference,
and he had when he was young
a relationship for about five years with a guy,
and it was just a romanticized friendship.
(romantic nostalgic music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Bobby Gonsalves came in.
Praise the Lord.
And of course, I was admiring his body, muscles,
using myself as a punching bag, which is wonderful.
(giggling)
- [Producer] This is good and bad points
about Bobby Gonsalves
from the diaries.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Bobby Gonsalves, good points,
his kind heart, his sincerity,
his honesty, his tender gentle love for the poor,
his always telling the truth,
his warm smile of love.
- Well what is the bad points?
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Bad points.
Zero.
- [Producer] You didn't know that he saw so much in you?
- No.
No, I really didn't.
Hmm.
- [Producer] What do you think about it?
- I'm a little shocked.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Bobby Gonsalves came.
He said he was sleeping over.
He took his pants and shirt and glasses off.
I closed the light and also went to bed with him.
I massaged his back.
He fell asleep.
Dad came into my room,
put the lights on, and almost blew a fuse
when he saw Bob, who was still asleep.
I tried to assure him, but finally Ma came in,
saw Bob, and boom!
That was it.
Out he went, and I got hit, yelling, et cetera.
(church bell tolling)
I went to the pastor to tell him my views
on my belief in Christ.
He told me to see a psychiatrist.
Then I was kicked out of the Catholic church
for being a smart Alec.
Everyone is against me.
(cheerful band music)
♪ People are queer ♪
♪ They're always glowing, scrambling ♪
- [Eddie] His biggest conviction was you gotta do something
to get noticed.
♪ And dress themselves this way ♪
- There's a great photo of Tiny Tim
by Diane Arbus that really has the genesis of the look.
It's beautiful and shocking.
It has so many elements of what really makes something last.
It's a unique beauty, his character.
It's not typical beauty, by any means.
But it's beautiful in that he created it, you know.
It's a miracle, really.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] The fellows kidded me
about my sissy-ish appearance,
but the girls looked at me.
- And then one day he says he prayed to Jesus
and he woke up with the high voice.
(cheerful ukulele music)
♪ Mary Lou ♪
♪ Cross my heart ♪
♪ I love you ♪
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Today I tried my new style
at the old Alliance Club.
It worked.
Praise the blessed Lord Jesus, they screamed.
I must sing the sissy way.
God told me to sing the sissy way.
Thanks ever so much for the magnetism onstage
that you've given me.
Today I had to be taken to safety
by two cops and a fireman.
I believe, however, this is the start
of a great success.
(laughing menacingly)
- So Tiny basically went through the 50s
playing at all these amateur singing contests,
and all these little dive bars,
maybe making a few dollars here and there,
but actually didn't land his first steady gig until 1959
and that was at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus,
which was essentially a freak show
located in Times Square.
- [Host] I don't like to use the word freaks,
so I'll just use the oddities of nature,
and the main act was fleas dance to music.
- How do you train them?
- Well, we have to form habits in them.
Larry is Napolean bonafide with his cannons
and Caesar with their Roman chariots.
All right, boys.
- And he found himself billed alongside
the armless wonder, the handless sharp shooter,
elephant man, and whatever else they had in there.
And he was billed as Larry Love, the human canary.
♪ Open the page of a book and all ♪
♪ Brings back a memory of days of Yore ♪
(audience laughing)
♪ Only a rose leaf that lingers ♪
It was no doubt humiliating in some way.
I mean, people came through not to enjoy these people,
but to gawk at them.
(dark atmospheric music)
(laughing mockingly)
(birds chirping)
(soft music)
- A lot of the prescribed routes for us
to live and interact with one another
were considered artificial, were considered mannered,
as if people were walking around with masks
and playing roles.
And this is the way women are supposed to behave,
and this is what being a man is about.
- There had to be a break,
like a new generation was coming in
with completely different ideas.
(lively folk music)
- People who were reaching to be
something individual were valued
and appreciated for being just that.
And in that sense, Tiny Tim was one of those people,
and therefore he was a trailblazer.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Praise the Lord.
I was mentioned in the Village Voice
under the name Tiny Tim.
- [Announcer] We have a different kind of music
for you right now.
A different kind of personality.
This gentleman is very, very quickly
picking up a following.
And let's have a great big hand
for Mr. Tiny Tim.
(scattered applauding)
- I was wandering by this club in the West Village,
and in there I saw Tiny Tim.
Who cooked my brain.
- [Jonas] And there was some women and some men,
and lights went out.
- [Tiny Tim] I hope you'll approve this song,
my dear friends, because if you don't
I'm very sorry, because these are one of these numbers
that catch me at this time of night.
- And in that silence and darkness
suddenly you could hear ukulele.
(ukulele music)
♪ When I have brand new hairdo ♪
♪ And my eyelashes are in curl ♪
♪ Well I float like the clouds on air do ♪
♪ I enjoy being a girl ♪
Who is this?
Where did he come from?
Who dropped him here?
He's not from here.
That voice is also not from here.
♪ Being a guy, having a girl like me ♪
(jaunty piano music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Speaking with the world's
greatest entertainer today, Mr. Dylan,
and his wanting me for a movie, Lord willing.
Thank you for the wonderful talent he sees in me.
To be a close friend of him, to stay and sleep
in his house, well this was too much.
And to top it all, he is paying me for it.
Thanks as I also sang for his beautiful wife and kids.
- Dylan was sort of interested in doing a film,
I kind of was involved in it,
in which we were gonna do a circus,
and Tiny Tim was gonna be the guy
with the top hat and the whip.
People were talking about it a lot
but it never got off the ground.
He was a complete outlaw.
A complete outlaw.
So it made him very vulnerable, but very interesting.
You really liked him a lot.
(funky bass music)
(Tiny Tim singing in high falsetto)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Thanks for a great night
at The Scene where the in crowd goes.
I will be a star.
The biggest star of our times.
♪ When you're strange ♪
♪ Faces come out of the rain ♪
- The Scene was one of those places
where all musicians would get together
and see another musician.
♪ No one remembers your name ♪
♪ When you're strange ♪
- Oh!
(laughing)
They're playing our campaign!
- Everybody thought that he was just a homeless guy
who wandered into the club.
We're watching him, and the audience
is kind of aghast.
(singing delightedly) (laughing)
- I know you're impatient waiting for it,
but I have to find the words for you.
- [Tommy] Suddenly the audience, all of us,
sort of at the same time, realized
this guy's not kidding.
This guy's for real.
Then they started laughing in a different way.
♪ Gold will change you like Mephisto ♪
♪ Remember this, though ♪
♪ Love makes you a Monte Cristo ♪
♪ King for a day ♪
- I may make the world think I'm merry,
but I can't hide the truth from myself,
so no matter what happens, I must go on acting,
acting, (laughing) acting!
♪ We are calling out so loud, ♪
♪ Oh love ♪
(laughing)
(audience applauding)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Today I signed a contract
with Reprise Records, Mr. Frank Sinatra's company.
They want me in LA on Monday for recordings.
(train whistling)
- [Bob] You're going now to the west coast, to Hollywood?
- [Tiny] Yes Bob, thanks again.
Can I just sing one last thing?
Nighty-night to all in radio land!
♪ It's time to say goodnight ♪
(dreamy music)
(giggles)
- [Bob] Well Tiny Tim, I hope that Hollywood
doesn't make you affected.
You won't go Hollywood on us, will you?
Bye-bye Tiny.
(cheerful music)
♪ On the good ship lollipop ♪
♪ It's a sweet trip to a candy shop ♪
♪ Where bonbons play ♪
♪ On the sunny beach of peppermint bay ♪
- [Tiny] Hello my dear friends!
Well, here I am on record at last,
and it feels so wonderful to be here with you
on my first album.
♪ I'm so happy ♪
♪ Happy go lucky me ♪
- We put out the God Bless Tiny Tim album,
and the timing was right for it.
People were ready to accept him.
- We didn't treat him cartoony.
We treated him like a real pop singer, like Frank Sinatra.
A real singer, like a real artist.
- Tiny showed up at our office one day
with a shopping bag and with his ukulele
underneath his arm, and I did not know what to make of him.
The only thing he kept doing was this
oh, Mr. Deblasio, Mr. Deblasio,
thank you, thank you.
And I couldn't figure it out.
And I was told by Roy,
he said to me, now listen,
this one is crazy.
And I said well, you know, they're all sort of crazy.
Every one of them.
He said no, you don't understand.
This one is truly wacko.
I said wacko?
And he said wacko.
♪ I'm right here to stay ♪
♪ When I'm old and gray ♪
- I was in the middle of a writer's meeting
and Richard Perry walked in with Digby Wolfe
and said we wanna introduce you to somebody.
And I said not now, I've got the room full of writers.
I don't have time for that right now.
They said we must insist.
And they walked in with Tiny Tim
and the shopping bag, and I said what the hell?
- I got a surprise for you.
- Oh, you're kidding.
You got a goodie for me
so early in the evening?
- Wait'll you see this.
- So we brought him out onstage
and we introduced him, Dan introduced him to Dick,
and Dick had never seen anything like Tiny Tim.
- The toast of Greenwich Village
in his first appearance anywhere, Tiny Tim.
(audience applauding)
- NBC said you can't put this guy on,
he's like a freak.
I said he's a big star.
♪ Oh, tiptoe through the window ♪
♪ By the window that is where I'll be ♪
♪ Come tiptoe through the tulips ♪
He's a star.
Listen to this, you know.
The man's a star.
♪ Oh ♪ (audience laughing)
♪ Tiptoe by the garden ♪
♪ By the garden ♪ (audience applauding)
♪ Among the willow tree ♪
This is my favorite, watch this right here.
♪ Leading ♪ (audience laughing)
(laughing)
- Ooh!
(jaunty piano music)
That was it.
And they fell in love with him.
- Once he hit laughing, he was playing everyone.
- This album right here, I understand people like Bob Dylan,
Peter Paul and Mary, predict that this next gentleman
is gonna be the biggest record seller
I guess of this coming year.
♪ Knee deep in flowers we'll stray ♪
♪ We'll keep the showers away ♪
- Thousands of letters poured into CBS
asking who is this guy, but very quickly,
he was on the cover of every major magazine,
merchandising was popping up,
and God Bless Tiny Tim, miraculously,
pierced the top 10 of the US Billboard charts.
♪ And tiptoe through the tulips with me ♪
(clicking tongue)
(audience laughing)
- It was unlike anything else.
- We just thought he was it.
- The audience loved him when he walked out there.
- Your appearance here, your last appearance here,
we received more mail about you
than almost anyone else we've ever had on the show.
- Oh thank you, out there in television land!
(audience laughing)
(dreamy music)
- A lot of our fans wanna know
how old are you, Tiny Tim?
- Oh, mystery!
(audience laughing)
I feel so young!
- I also know that you admire the astronauts,
or was it that you would like to be one?
- Well, not really an astronaut, Mr. Cavett.
I've always been--
(audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
It's not an astronaut I wanna be.
I'd love to go to the planets and stay there.
- The man who made tulips the national flower, Tiny Tim!
♪ There will always be an England ♪
♪ While there's a country lane ♪
♪ Wherever there's a cottage small ♪
(exciting music) (audience applauding)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Years ago, I told my parents
that one day they would be in the front row
when I did the Ed Sullivan show.
No one believed it then.
Today, it happened.
- Take a bow.
Where are your parents?
I'd like them to stand up, please.
(audience applauding)
(soft dreamy music)
♪ Welcome to my dream ♪
♪ It now seems real ♪
♪ You're what it needed ♪
♪ To make it ideal ♪
- Now, if my mother, for example, were to write you
and say that her son wears long hair
and sings in a falsetto voice,
and it bothers her, now what would you write back?
Assuming that I haven't made the grade yet.
(audience laughing) (laughing)
- What is your mother's feeling?
- Well-- (audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
Well before I made it, she asked who in her family
was like it.
And then my father asked the same thing,
because there was no answer to that.
So her feelings were quite bad.
♪ Fill your heart with love today ♪
♪ Don't play the game of time ♪
♪ Things that happen in the past ♪
♪ Happened in your mind ♪
♪ In your mind, only in your mind ♪
♪ In your mind ♪
♪ Forget your mind and you'll be free ♪
- And as we move into the summer of 1968,
Tinymania reaches its climax.
He tours across the continental US,
including Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas,
then he moves across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe.
Everyone wants to meet him.
- Mr. Lennon called up and he said gee
he'd love to have me at Albert Hall.
♪ Tiny Tim for president ♪
♪ Oh Tiny Tim for queen ♪
(upbeat music)
(laughing)
One eye is brown.
The other eye,
is brown.
- Sounds strange to say well Tiny Tim arrived
at a time when the country needed a Tiny Tim.
We did, because the world was screwed up
nothing like it is today.
♪ Cars are waiting ♪
♪ Windshields wiping ♪
♪ Nowhere left to go ♪
♪ The ice caps are melting ♪
♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho ♪
♪ All the world is drowning ♪
♪ To wash away the sin ♪
- [Tiny] And the seagull flies
in search of land.
The children hide beneath the sand
while floating toys--
- We needed somebody that was that sweet,
that vulnerable, and that kind,
and Tim walked in there, and he became a national hero.
♪ As I approach the prime of my life ♪
♪ I find I have the time of my life ♪
♪ Learning to enjoy at my leisure ♪
♪ All the simple pleasures ♪
♪ And so I happily conceive ♪
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Thanks for the most
fantastic happenings.
People stop me wherever I go, and I sign autographs.
I am invited to parties
with all the great stars of Hollywood
and with beautiful girls.
♪ Beautiful girls ♪
♪ Walk a little slower ♪
♪ When you walk by me ♪
♪ Lingering sunsets ♪
♪ Stay a little longer with the lonely sea ♪
- Yes, he was a cartoon character,
but that's when you looked at him with the shopping bag,
but it wasn't the shopping bag singing,
and it wasn't the funny jacket singing.
It was Tiny Tim, and what he was, and what he,
he added a magic to it
that I had never heard before.
♪ I will stay younger ♪
♪ Than spring ♪
(audience applauding)
- [Johnny] Well, you broke it up again, Tiny.
- Thank you, Mr. Carson.
- That's a hell of a Russ Columbo style, right?
- Mixed with Mr. Crosby.
- Yeah.
Very good.
I think you took everybody a little bit by surprise
on that one.
(audience applauding) Right?
(soft atmospheric music)
- He was a great performer,
and he was passionate about his music,
but he was more passionate about girls.
- On the first of January
to the last day of December
I give a trophy out
to the most beautiful girl of the year
who I've met.
And I like to give a lot of trophies out,
but of course I can only give one.
Usually the girl never knows it.
- Have you ever thought of replacing the trophy
with a ring, or marriage--
(laughing)
- Never!
Never.
Because I could never get married.
- He'd tell us stories about girls he had crushes on.
- Yes, which was a lot.
A lot of girls.
(laughing)
- And one time he was getting so excited,
I don't know if you remember, Ms. Cleo,
he was telling us all about Ms. Cleo
who was a showgirl somewhere,
and all of a sudden he's going oh, Ms. Cleo, Ms. Cleo!
And he jumps on the bed on his back,
and he's kicking his feet and his arms,
and it's Ms. Cleo!
He was going like out of his mind.
- If you could imagine being like 15 years old
and seeing it, you know.
- I think I was on the second floor,
he was on the third, and obviously we were close.
He climbed down the balcony
and he snuck in through the sliding glass doors
and came into my room.
And his road manager, he just kept calling,
and he said I know Tiny is in the room with you.
He said this is not wise.
In the meantime, Tiny is saying don't tell him I'm here.
Don't tell him I'm here.
(laughing) I was like, what do I do?
But I listened to Tiny.
And then he snuck out the same way.
- People always thought that he was some kind of lech,
but with us, I mean, he was just this great,
he was great.
He never did anything. - He was so sweet.
- I thought it was cool.
(laughing)
And it could've been something else, but it wasn't.
It wasn't.
And he was such the gentleman.
Always, anytime I was with him, always the gentleman.
- How many times realistically
did he get that close to serious,
serious legal ramifications.
- In certain places he could've gotten into a lot
of trouble just for--
- Hey, no kidding.
- Just for having her there with no clothes on.
Not that she had much choice, since she walked in
and took the clothes off without asking him.
- Remember in Iowa.
Tiny is approached by some, you know--
- He told me, that was--
- 13, 14 year old girl in Iowa.
- Yeah.
- And unbeknownst to Tiny--
- She's recording the telephone conversations.
- Yes.
- And then her dad--
- And it's getting.
Bingo. - Ugh.
- Dad gets a hold of it.
Dad goes crazy.
But there again was another situation
where there could have been serious ramifications.
- I don't know whether it's illegal
to talk to a 14 year old girl on the phone.
(groaning)
You couldn't get in trouble for that.
And the same, like talking on the phone to a girl,
depends on what they talked about, but--
- It was very sexual.
- Oh.
Oh, Tiny.
- I think that Tiny got more titillated by the temptation
and the fact that this was sinful,
or it was potentially sinful.
I hate to think this, but he was probably
a little bit of a tortured soul in that way.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Dear Lord, please forgive me
for the sin I committed with Ms. Candy
here at Caesar's Palace, as I spread honey
and peanut butter on her body.
Kissed Ms. Trisha,
fooled around with Ms. Carol.
Put cold cream on Ms. Iris.
Got wet.
Ms. Karen, might marry her.
Temptations were active, and save me from sin.
In Jesus' name I pray.
I must stop this sin, and I will with Thy strength.
(bells ringing) (jarring music)
♪ With you ♪
(drum rolling) (audience applauding)
- We all felt that he definitely did need an anchor,
and hopefully he would find a nice girl,
maybe develop a relationship.
So when we went on a book tour,
she happened to be there at Wanamaker's department store.
- I noticed her right away in her gray dress.
And as soon as I came up there, my eyes
started to swoon.
And then I looked at the crowd, I looked back,
and there she was again, I looked back,
there she was again, and she was still smiling.
- It was pretty incredible.
It was like love at first sight.
- Yeah. - I was there, yeah.
- And the next time I came back to Philadelphia
two days later, she came down,
she asked me for the address.
(audience laughing)
- She's here now.
Miss Vicki.
(audience applauding) (cheerful music)
- [Vicki Voiceover] Dear Tiny Tim.
I'm lost without you.
I miss you.
There's no one but you.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Dear Miss Vicki,
thank you so much for sending me
the most exciting telegram I have ever received,
but I am more lost without you
than you will ever be without me.
Tiny Tim.
- [Vicki Voiceover] There's nothing,
just nothing without you.
There can never, ever be anyone but you.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Dear Miss Vicki,
I am thinking of you more than you will ever think of me.
All the silent objects are my witnesses.
This must be the last time
I will be ever be separated from you.
Thanks again, Tiny Tim.
- [Interviewer] Vicki, was it love at first sight?
- Um--
- It was really love at first fright.
- No, don't say that!
Although I think so.
Don't mind what he said about fright.
- Tiny Tim, would you sing us a song
that would express how you feel right now?
- Oh, I'd love to.
Yes, I sure would.
♪ If you only knew ♪
♪ The dreams that I've been dreaming 'bout you ♪
♪ All night through ♪
♪ Got the ring and everything is ready ♪
♪ All you have to do is put it on ♪
♪ One week, seven little days ♪
♪ Wish that they were gone ♪
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Points I must remember
concerning the marriage situation with Miss Vicki.
Give her gifts everyday.
Glorify her womanhood and praise.
Share every secret.
Welcome her mother and father.
Watch her menstrual cycles.
Build her up, especially in public,
in front of others.
Keep lotions near bed at romantic hours.
Not to forget peanut butter, honey,
mustard, whipped cream.
Dress as a teenager.
Eat her constantly.
Don't try to change her.
Give her freedom.
♪ But I'll be doggone happy ♪
♪ When the preacher makes you mine ♪
(audience cheering)
- Tiny was talking to Johnny Carson,
and Tiny said something about yes he had a girlfriend
and said we're gonna get married.
And Carson said, so where are you gonna get married?
He said, oh I don't know.
And Carson said, why don't you do it here?
And Tiny went, oh, Mrs. Carson.
Oh.
And looked around at me, and I thought,
oh this is interesting.
- His wedding was such a big event
that it produced a brownout.
- [Ron] The night that Tiny was married on the show
highest ratings in the Tonight Show history.
- I thought that it was gonna be a circus,
I thought they were gonna make fun of him,
and I didn't want to see him get married.
I couldn't dream of him anymore then.
- Before the word reality television,
this was reality.
- Wait a minute, am I having my hair cut?
No!
- Very little.
- No, no!
I don't want my hair cut.
- Didn't you promise Miss Vicki--
- No, no, no.
- [Man] So we can see your face.
- Oh, no, no, no.
Oh, for my fans, I have to keep the curl for them.
Oh no, I don't know what to say.
- [Interviewer] You aren't even gonna get it trimmed
for your wedding?
- [Man] Oh, we hardly took any off.
- Oh, thank god.
- They won't even notice the difference.
- [Vicki] Aren't you gonna let him even it up
for you though, Tim?
- Oh no, no.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- [Announcer] From New York,
the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
- People probably have been kidding
about Tiny Tim being married on the show, but we are not.
It happens tonight.
("Wedding March")
- And the Lord bless thee and keep thee,
this day, and unto the end.
Amen.
You may kiss the bride.
(joyous organ music) (audience applauding)
♪ Oh won't you come and love me ♪
♪ Oh pretty Vicki mine ♪
- [Vicki] When I watch that video of our wedding
and I saw my young self,
and I went oh my gosh, and it all came floating back to me.
I had a vision in my head of a home,
with hardwood floors and matching dishes
and children, and cooking dinner every night,
and that never came to be.
I never cooked one dinner, ever,
ever for him.
Our life was on the road and in hotels
and that's what he wanted,
and that's what he liked.
(audience applauding)
- Here's the rest of the wedding party
to come out and say goodnight.
I thank you for being with us and letting us
televise this tonight, and wish you both
much, much happiness.
We'll see you tomorrow night.
Goodnight.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Thank you for the greatest day ever.
For this evening, I got married for the first time,
and the last, I pray,
to the most beautiful girl I know,
Miss Victoria May Buttinger.
I pray I can be worthy of her
and make her happy.
- [Justin] You've played at the Royal Albert Hall,
you've played at Caesar's Palace,
you've toured the world, and Tiny Tim gets married
on the Tonight Show, watched by an estimated
40 to 50 million people.
What do you do?
Where can you possibly go after that?
(dark atmospheric music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] At this moment,
I am the hottest talent in the whole country.
I am the toast of the city
from Hollywood to New York.
I am praised by everyone.
And yet, with all the shouting and sinning,
my soul is in Hell, and I cry out for help, oh Jesus.
(sobbing) (panting)
- [Justin] And after so many years of making
his own decisions, Tiny began to resent
people telling him what to do,
so he alienated Richard Perry,
Richard Perry quit, followed by Ron DeBlasio,
and Tiny was taken over by less experienced managers
who decided to go down the route of branding Tiny Tim
and Miss Vicki together as a package.
♪ I love you and you love me ♪
♪ We love each other dear forever ♪
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Thank you, as Miss Vicki
gave birth to a baby girl early this morning.
- Also thanks as Miss Vicki and the blessed event
are doing fine.
I can see, looking at them together like that,
I can see how I look like both of them.
I don't think that I'm proud.
And I think the reason why is because
from a very young age, I always had negative stories
about him from my mother, so because of that
it stuck in my mind.
Maybe at times I even felt embarrassed.
But now that I'm older, I realize
everyone's different, he was different for his era.
(audience applauding)
♪ You are the love of my heart, dear ♪
♪ You are my sunshine too ♪
♪ Sunshine too ♪
- [Vicki] He was really good at performing,
and that's where he was most comfortable.
♪ One two three o'clock ♪
♪ Four o'clock rock ♪
♪ Five six seven o'clock ♪
♪ Eight o'clock rock ♪
♪ Nine 10 11 o'clock ♪
♪ 12 o'clock rock ♪
♪ We're gonna rock around the clock tonight ♪
But when he was alone with people,
with friends, relatives,
he was so uncomfortable.
He couldn't really relate to other people.
His experiences as a child with his parents,
it wasn't good.
And I don't think he learned
the capacity to love.
(fading piano music)
- You know, he signed a contract with the mob,
and they were controlling him.
- Tiny definitely more than alluded to that.
He would say I've got the big boys.
He called them the big boys.
- One of these mafia people
said okay that's it, I'm taking it over.
I'm your new manager.
That was mainly it.
- Show business was very mobbed-up back then.
Of course, they controlled Las Vegas,
vending machines and jukeboxes and nightclubs.
They had booking agencies.
- [Justin] Everybody was saying who is this guy?
Including the FBI.
So they launched an investigation,
and they were particularly interested
if Tiny was connected to hoodlum associates
connected to Frank Sinatra, basically.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Night out at the Whisky A Go Go.
Mr. Kaufman made gesture of threat
when he said even if your father does not want
you to sign, you're gonna.
He is very on edge
after being in prison for more than a year.
I don't know how far my career will go with them,
but they do take personal interest in friendship with me
and will be the crutch I need to fight temptation.
- [Vicki] And I got to know them,
and they didn't like me.
They looked like mobsters,
but I could hear, he'd be on the phone,
and he'd be like, you gotta get rid of her.
She's out for this,
like he was so mean.
He hated me.
Then Tiny would come to me and tell me these things,
like, he said oh you're no good,
and you just want what you can get,
and you just want money,
and I'm like, well did you stick up for me?
Did you tell him that's untrue?
Well, no.
You know?
That was really hurtful.
♪ Oh the standard of morals for woman and man ♪
♪ Has made it a point that she cannot ♪
♪ While he can ♪
♪ So who is to blame ♪
(audience cheering) (audience applauding)
♪ It's a man's every time ♪
♪ It's a man ♪
- If she gets a divorce, I will never give it to her.
The courts may.
This ring stays on the finger.
I love her now more than I did yesterday.
If she wants to be free, then I will never be free
until death do us part.
(somber music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Sad day.
She leaves.
Dear Lord, Miss Vicki has left me again.
This time she came and told me to my face.
She is tired of this marriage.
She cried a bit and was amazed that I still could say
I love her and I'm happy with her.
I still mean it.
I feel sorry for her, and the baby.
I must now await further developments.
- You're in the Guinness Book of records.
Are you aware of that?
- Mr. Carson, I tell you.
They told me that,
but I never looked it up.
- The second highest rated television show
of all times next to the man's first walk on the moon,
is the night you were married on The Tonight Show.
It had the second highest rating,
but the marriage hasn't gone that well?
- Well, unfortunately Mr. Carson, that's life.
But I can say-- (audience laughing)
I mean, unfortunately, Miss Vicki left again
this January, and this time she said goodbye in person.
The first time, she didn't.
She just ran off with somebody else.
But at that time, I'll be waiting,
I don't believe in divorce.
And of course if she comes back
20 years from now, fine.
Under my terms, of course.
And basically-- (audience laughing)
- Can I ask what the terms are?
- Yes, frankly, some of the terms will be
she has to take a blood test.
(audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
- [Justin] During this time, Tiny's management,
they were trying all kinds of new things
to jumpstart his career.
- Well we do all benefits for the police
and the firemen all over,
New York area, Massachusets, Connecticut.
And we also bring monkeys, chimpanzees,
and magical acts with us,
and jugglers. (audience laughing)
And on the road I've also seen some wonderful talent
like Mr. John McCormick, the toothless opera singer.
- Ah! (audience laughing)
Ah, now that, now you're talking.
- I consider it a very sad story,
because the way he was introduced and put immediately
like a freak.
- They didn't understand his genius,
and I think they were into something else
that had nothing to do with that,
and it was actually heartbreaking for me
because I knew what he was.
(dark atmospheric music)
- [Tiny] Hello, this is Tiny Tim saying
these are not imitations
but spirits as I feel they are living in me.
♪ It's a sin to tell a lie ♪
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Depressing thoughts of failure
and of being and living in fear
and poverty and shame continue.
I try to think of what to do, but no results.
♪ Were spoken ♪
♪ I love you ♪
- Finally, Tiny's management stops wanting to pay
for his hotel room, and Tiny ends up back at 601
West 163rd Street with his mother.
(dog barking) (sad music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Dear Lord, as I predicted,
I came back to live with my mother
where I left to go to Hollywood in November '67.
As I look out of my window, all my father's words
came back to me, and I really felt
what I wasted in the past,
and my shame, and my mother's shame
in me being back, I believe I have learned my lesson.
Lord willing, I will soon be back on top again.
♪ Mammy, mammy ♪
- [Tillie] This is when he graduated junior high.
- Notice she said junior high.
- [Tillie] This is his friend, dear little friend.
- [Tiny] My cousin.
- [Tillie] Oh, his cousin.
- [Tiny] My dear cousin Hal Stein
who is now the promotion manager of WKTU FM.
- He took a better position there.
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Had a really angry argument
with my mother as she again had a lack of faith in me.
- So long, Mother.
♪ I kiss the dear fingers ♪
♪ So toil-worn for me ♪
♪ Oh god bless you ♪
♪ And keep you ♪
♪ Mother ♪
- Thus begins I would say a very tumultuous decade.
- Mister gasoline man, give me some gas.
My tank is almost empty, so fill her up fast.
♪ Come tiptoe to the gas pumps ♪
♪ Fill her up ♪
♪ Give me all you've got ♪
♪ Till I scream I've had enough ♪
♪ So you met someone who swept right off your heels ♪
♪ Little girl, so you met someone ♪
♪ And now you know how it feels, very good ♪
- To me it's amazing that he could get there
to begin with, it's amazing he could stay there
for a year or two.
He would have to do things that we can't even imagine
to stay there, to keep that being fresh,
to keep being on top, he would have had to,
I can't imagine what he would have done
in the late 70's when disco was a thing.
I can't imagine Tiny in the punk rock era.
♪ Dance with me, dance with me ♪
♪ Dance with me ♪
♪ If I kiss you in the garden ♪
♪ In the moonlight will you follow me ♪
♪ Tiptoe through the tulips with me ♪
- [Host] Miss?
- [Jan] Miss Jan.
- [Host] Miss Jan is Mr. Tim's wife.
- That's right.
- [Host] Well nice to meet you.
(audience applauding)
Your life can't possibly be normal.
- Well, it really is exciting and very interesting.
♪ Well if you want my body ♪
♪ And you think I'm sexy ♪
♪ Come and get it ♪
(singing in high falsetto) (audience cheering)
(audience applauding)
(sad atmospheric music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] I pray for my dear wife, Jan.
She is depressed again.
I have not done well in recent years.
I am helpless to her because of my own problems.
Today, Miss Jan met and chatted with Mr. Donald Trump.
He spoke nicely about me when he learned
she was married to me.
I think my wife loves Mr. Trump.
- At this point in time, Tiny was willing to pursue
pretty much any angle to make a comeback.
(bells tolling)
♪ Midnight ♪
The closest he ever came was through his work
with Australian pop artist Martin Sharp
who invested considerable time and money
in Tiny Tim projects.
♪ Don't go strolling down lover's lane ♪
♪ With anyone else but me ♪
♪ Til I come marching home ♪
- Well, it's really gonna be a portrait of Tiny.
The basis of it is the World Non-Stop Singing Record,
we did it at Luna Park.
♪ Because it's a good day ♪
♪ For paying your bills ♪
♪ And it's a good day ♪
♪ For curing your ills ♪
♪ Take a deep breath ♪
(audience cheering)
- The new world heavyweight singing champion,
the one and only Mr. Tiny Tim!
- And though Tiny did set the world record,
the Guinness Book of World Records
never recognized the achievement.
Martin Sharp's film was never released,
and Tiny went back to the States
and took a job touring with the circus.
(dark ominous music)
- Who in the hell are you?
And what are you doing in this house?
- I just came to welcome you home, Jill.
- Merv?
- Marvelous Mervo, at your service.
- [Announcer] Our very special guest star
here under the big tarp,
truly one of the entertainment world's most colorful
and unique personalities, the one and only Tiny Tim!
(audience applauding) (cheery circus music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] There must be changes in my career.
I must make it either in records, movies, or television,
or not at all.
The way I am handled right now by people who just want
to grab any engagement they can from me
so they can put a dollar in their pocket,
even at the loss of the talent you've given me, oh Lord.
- Thank you beautiful Mr. Wall
for bringing me out here.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
so thrilling to be here today
in beautiful--
I'm the first has-been star singer
who has ever sung with the circus.
Elvis Presley sung with the circus
but that was before he became a star.
- You say has-been star.
What was it like for you to go up to the top
and be married on Johnny Carson broadcast,
and then to do whatever's happened to you,
of which I'm not totally familiar.
- Great question.
It's really down, up, and down.
It was fantastic.
It was a great trip,
and of course for 17 years I've been trying
to make it back again.
- Yeah.
Tim hasn't been doing much television lately,
but he has been performing mainly in circus.
♪ Does life seem to me ♪
♪ Like a long winter's day ♪
♪ All of my troubles ♪
♪ Just faded away ♪
♪ You're gone from me ♪
♪ And the summertime's blue ♪
♪ Came autumn sadness ♪
♪ Then love brought me you ♪
♪ All day I'm sighing ♪
♪ And longing for you ♪
♪ Life's worth living ♪
♪ Since I have met you ♪
♪ Each night I'm dreaming ♪
♪ Your face so true ♪
♪ Fate often left me ♪
♪ Sighing for you ♪
♪ Fate often left me ♪
♪ Sighing for you ♪
(dark atmospheric music)
(panting)
(pen scribbling)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Des Moine River rising.
Flood getting nearer.
Electricity out.
Water contaminated.
(gurgling)
How many lives were made more beautiful
because they were broken?
God loves you.
He's got a plan.
I can't do it alone anymore.
Get help.
(panting) (dark ominous music)
(phone ringing)
- I was 12.
And I had 55 pictures of him on my wall.
I had always felt like I didn't really belong
in this world, and when I was a little kid
I had a fantasy that I was from another planet,
and when I saw him I thought he's the first person
I've ever seen who's from my planet.
(laughs)
(phone ringing)
(snoring)
(groans)
Well, I hadn't much thought about Tiny for a long time.
I'd heard he was getting a divorce.
And all of a sudden I realized Tiny travels around
and plays small places, and I could meet him
if I wanted to.
I just called the hotel that was mentioned in the article
and invited myself to meet him.
He says are you attractive?
And I thought, it's a really inappropriate thing to say.
And I thought I should be angry, but I'm not.
It was just awkward and just wrong to say that,
but I just wanted to laugh.
And I said I suppose.
And he said, are you slim?
That's even worse.
(laughing)
And I was very thin at the time, and I said yes.
And he goes, well okay.
And we set a time and a place,
and I said we'll be there.
And he goes who's we?
And I said me and my boyfriend.
He goes, oh honey.
And I said I've waited 26 years to meet you
and I'm going to be there.
And he says, all right.
And he hangs up on me.
And that was our first conversation.
(gentle banjo music)
And my boyfriend said to me you're still in love with him.
And I said oh, no.
I said you know, he's old, and raggedy-looking
in the picture.
And I said it's not gonna be the same.
And he goes uh-huh, uh-huh.
And when I met him
he was to come down from his room
at the Hotel Fort Des Moine,
and we were gonna have dinner.
I didn't realize at the time how little money he had,
and what a huge sacrifice it was for him to buy dinner
for two guests.
And he says are you Miss Sue?
And I said yes.
And he says hi, I'm Tiny Tim.
And I thought, yes.
(laughing)
I knew that.
He's looking me up and down, and he's giving me
this look like, you really aren't that attractive.
And I'm looking at him like you are so old
and you look a stuffed animal that some little kid
has been playing with a lot for about 10 years.
And then I noticed that he was looking at me like
well maybe you're not that bad.
Maybe you're kind of cute.
And then within two or three minutes
the whole deal was done.
Without a word ever being said about it
it was just like this is obvious.
This is going to happen.
And Dennis said to me, he says
so that's your dream boy?
And I just looked at him like, yeah.
♪ Once I lived a life of a millionaire ♪
♪ Had lots of money ♪
♪ Didn't have a care ♪
♪ Carried my friends out for a good time ♪
♪ Buying bootleg liquor ♪
♪ Champagne and wine ♪
That's it.
(heavenly choral music)
- [Susan] Take this ring.
- [Priest] As a sign of my love and fidelity.
- As a sign of my love and fidelity.
- [Priest] In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
I'd like to present to you
Mr. and Mrs. Khaury.
(audience applauding)
♪ Thou's the one I love ♪
♪ Sweet Sue ♪
♪ That's you ♪
- [Announcer] By the time he married his third wife,
Sue Gardner, the national spotlight had long faded.
In recent years, Tim had found new popularity
among the retro music crowd.
- [Host] I don't know how many people
have ever had an opportunity
to see a living legend.
(audience cheering)
Ladies and gentlemen!
The one and only!
Let's have a big round of applause for Tiny Timbo!
(audience cheering)
♪ Sweet Sue ♪
- The first time he got looked at medically
after we met, they said that they thought he had
five to seven years.
And then he started to get worse,
and they started to talk about three to five years.
And then they started talking about one to three years.
And in the end, the doctor said I cannot guarantee
that he will walk out of the office.
- Please welcome with me, Mr. Tiny Tim.
(audience applauding)
- If you hear any coughing during the show,
well it's because, you know--
(audience gasping)
(all shrieking) (crashes)
- [Woman] Is there a doctor in the house?
(distant sirens wailing)
- When I heard that he had a heart attack
I tracked him down in the hospital in Massachusets,
and we communicated fairly often
the last few months.
It became a very warm conclusion.
- I had wanted him to stay home for a long time.
He had promised me.
But I didn't realize how addicted he was
to performing and to applause
and the audience and all that stuff.
(camera bulbs flashing)
- [Reporters] Tiny!
Tiny!
(soft dark music)
- [Tiny Tim Voiceover] Control your destiny,
or someone else will.
It's not over until I win.
- [Susan] I don't know where to start with that day.
He colored his hair that day
and he was in a horrible mood.
- Tiny came up these stairs
proceeded straight ahead
because he was not feeling well that night
and he sat down and rested
to just take it easy.
- Tiny Tim Khaury.
(audience cheering) (audience applauding)
- A small bandstand was set up against this wall,
and Tiny was pretty much front and center
which would have put him in approximately this position.
- The set was very short.
He did sing another song that I had never heard of.
I'll have you to remember when I grow too old to dream,
this song will live in my heart,
so kiss me my sweet, and so let us part.
In which I think he was consciously saying goodbye to me.
I think he knew that he was not gonna walk
out of that room alive.
- Miss Sue was sitting way in the rear of the room.
- [Susan] And then he sang a very short version
of "Tiptoe".
♪ Tiptoe by the window ♪
♪ By the window ♪
♪ That is where I'll be ♪
- So when Tiny all of a sudden, mm, grabbed his heart,
and Sue, as I get it, from the back of the room
kind of mouthed to him, are you okay?
He kind of went, no.
At that point, she got up, charged forward,
and that's when he pretty much knew he was collapsing
and fell into her arms.
- And he very gracefully knelt down,
and I think that he was gone right then.
(sad piano music)
♪ It sure is good to see you ♪
♪ But I would have liked to hold you ♪
- [Newscaster] An icon of the 60s died this weekend.
- [Newscaster] He tiptoed into America's heart
nearly 30 years ago.
- [Newscaster] One of a kind entertainer,
and the last sounds he heard were applause.
♪ Perhaps in the next life ♪
♪ When our roads touch again ♪
♪ I'll be able to love you ♪
♪ The way ♪
- Eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness,
Tiny was a genuine joyful pear-shaped celebration
of all three.
He was perhaps the kindest man
I ever met.
Tiny, may your good works never die.
- Some celebrities walk around like they're the sun
and the moon, and he just wasn't that way.
He was wonderful.
- I feel like I'm Tiny when I say this,
but I feel like his spirit enters me.
♪ Eternal troubadour ♪
♪ Tiny Tim ♪
- [Susan] He was like a turtle with no shell.
He was so honest, he was so open and out there,
and he was like a child.
- I hope that they understand why I am the way I am
because I use it as an excuse sometimes.
I'll say I can't help it, my dad was Tiny Tim.
It's not my fault.
(laughs)
- He really should get some credit
as being the first androgynous rock and roll era star.
Particularly in the next generation,
people like David Bowie, and Prince, and Boy George,
they must have ingested some of Tiny Tim.
- People either got it or they didn't.
There it was.
He was beautiful.
(audience applauding)
♪ Years ago they said I'd never make it ♪
♪ They tried to stick a pin in my balloon ♪
♪ They said I was too strange ♪
♪ That my dreams were all in vain ♪
♪ But they said the same about man on the moon ♪
♪ I knocked on doors ♪
♪ And I sang my songs and ♪
♪ Each day they'd say hey go away ♪
♪ And don't come back ♪
♪ But I crusaded ♪
♪ Until I made it ♪
♪ Nothing's impossible if you try ♪
♪ So have your dreams ♪
♪ Go on and sing your song ♪
♪ There's nothing wrong ♪
♪ With singing out of tune ♪
♪ If people laugh ♪
♪ And say your dream can never be ♪
♪ Just think of me ♪
♪ And man on the moon ♪
♪ And just a while back ♪
♪ You'd be a bit cracked ♪
♪ If you would talk about a walk out on the moon ♪
♪ And who'd believe it ♪
♪ We've finally reached it ♪
♪ Nothing's impossible if you try ♪
♪ So have your dreams ♪
♪ Go on and sing your song ♪
♪ There's nothing wrong ♪
♪ With singing out of tune ♪
♪ If people laugh ♪
♪ And say your dream can never be ♪
♪ Just think of me ♪
♪ And man on the moon ♪
(audience applauding) (audience cheering)
Oh, a story I have to tell you.
Neil Cassidy and I kidnapped him from the mafia.
Mr. Rocko fell asleep, and we snatched him.
We were driving up the west side highway in New York
to the Cloisters with Neil Cassidy driving the car,
and Neil and Tiny singing Bing Crosby duets
as we drove along.
Every now and then he'd go, oh Mr. Cassidy,
not so fast!
Oh relax, Tiny, everything's cool!
I'm just gonna roll this joint and drive with my knee.
Oh god, what a hoot.
I can't believe I, you almost didn't get that one.
♪ Tiptoe through the window ♪
♪ By the window, that is where I'll be ♪
♪ You can tiptoe through the tulips with me ♪
♪ Tiptoe by the garden ♪
♪ By the garden of a willow tree ♪
♪ And tiptoe through the tulips with me ♪
♪ Knee deep in flowers we'll stray ♪
♪ We'll keep the showers away ♪
♪ And if I kiss you ♪
♪ In the garden, in the moonlight ♪
♪ Will you pardon me ♪
♪ And tiptoe through the tulips with me ♪
♪ Knee deep in flowers we'll stray ♪
♪ We'll keep the showers away ♪
♪ And if I kiss you ♪
♪ In the garden ♪
♪ In the moonlight ♪
- Until we meet again, this is Tiny Tim saying
to all of my dear friends, wherever you are
in TV land, goodnight!
♪ With me ♪
(audience applauding)