Tip Toe Thru The 2Lips

I just never "got" this and he creeps me out. Explain it DL!

I was vacationing in P-town in the early '90s & this strange looking man at an outdoor cafe caught my eye. It was Tiny Tim.

Can you imagine if some old perv married a naive, 17-year-old girl on national television today? How was this ever okay???

That was 55 years ago, R3. It was a very different world. Just as 2024 will be unrecognizable to those living in 2079.

It wasn’t okay in 1968. It (HE) was weird and creepy - which was his appeal.

^ also, his being effeminate helped the creep factor when he married a 17 year old.

[quote]I just never "got" this and he creeps me out. Explain it DL!

There was a nostalgia craze in the later half of the 1960s. Think of the wild success of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album in 1967. 1968 was the year of Bonnie and Clyde, Cass Eliot singing "Dream a Little Dream", that sort of thing.

Is his little guitar some sort of homage to George Formby? Is he meant to sound like an old record playing in a parlour in the 1930s?

It's called a ukulele, R8. Tiny Time was actually a very skilled musician and musicologist. He knew pretty much every popular song written in the 20th century, and he could tell you who sang it and the label it was on. Was he weird? Of course! But the marriage to "Miss Vicki" on television was a stunt. Tim, née Herbert Khaury, was married three times and had one daughter.

So he was sort of fixated on old timey singers and songs?

Jesus, R8, you don’t know what a ukulele is?

Always a class act

They did a lot of drugs in the 60s.

R13 Yes and you had to be there to understand.