Thanks for posting these, especially those from 1962 to 1972. I understand that about 90% of those shows were recorded over, which is a disgrace. Hopefully we can soon get some "fresh" episodes on Antenna TV since the same ones have been airing for many years.

@@Rob_Kates Unfortunately finding stuff pre the move from New York to Burbank is hard to find. Sadly, It's kind of what you see now is what you get.

@Gregory Papadopoulos I would like to see that too. I'd also like to see debut appearances by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.

I really loved when Ted visited your show!! That was the best episode ever. 😅

Thank You so much for making these available they are truly wonderful to watch !!!

Well yes I could easily see that Johnny Depp took some of Tinys behavioral to play Edward the Scissorhand

That is very true

Oh wow lol I never looked at him like that but yeah your right

You right!!! 🤭😜

Looks like him tho

yeah, even the album cover, he was just "this is me". what a g

That's an interesting perspective. That's not what comes across to me at all. I see something different. Audio and film recording are relatively new. And the ability to read music is no longer as common as it used to be, and I'm not an exception to that. I seem to notice a habit some of us humans have of reflecting on the 20th century and talking about things that had never been done before. In some cases, obviously that's true. But if you go back and listen to the singers he mentioned as influences, I believe he mentioned about four of them, you can hear what he was doing in what they were doing. He added a layer of sort of surrealist kind of absurdist, unhinged-ness to it. But I think more than innovation what we see is perhaps a glimpse into what were more common ways of performing in the past than we realize because none of it was recorded. In the age of computers and telephones and televisions and radios and screens, screens, screens, our entertainment comes in a form that mimic's the stardom of the 20th century. But before all that there were all kinds of places where musicians could play to make money. Side shows, clubs, theaters, etc and I have no doubt that super weird, crazy seeming people like Tiny Tim were around. I think things were actually a lot more weird than we think they were. Perhaps the weirdness of the world begins to hide as the world fills evermore with cameras. Personally, I see Tiny Tim as a mirror. An image of the psychosis of our own times reflected back to us as "entertainment."

Yes I agree and has his own style

Once you go down that rabbit-hole brother you're never coming back. I've been there they had to send in a SWAT team to get me out.

I've been obsessed since a week

Check his howard stern interviews

Yes he had his own style

You're wrong about made an episode about him that's really good.

I am totally with you, he was a good kind person, talented and christian, he was different but nobody, absolutely nobody has the right to humiliate or disrespect him for being the way he was.

He eccentrically unique Very smart guy and a walking encyclopedia of music of all kinds ... Thank You Tiny

He was a joke. What are you sad about? He was a clown. Tip toe through the tulips was a song popularized by women in the 1920s. He never wrote any original music. Even the title Tiny Tim was a joke because he was so tall.

@Victor Alexander ~ Finally, someone said it. I've thought the world of him since I was like 5 yrs old in 1970. He's a man of faith and very, very old fashioned in values. He was also known to possess an extensive record collection dating back to the late 1800's. So, a great guy, I'm sure, but he absolutely was selling his outlandish novelty.

1968. Times were more Conservative. There was the War in Vietnam, and the only show on Television that was featuring far out topics and people was "Donahue."

I am dying laughing at your comment, a good laugh is to better health at that.

I thought Carson was quite gentle in his behavior. I mean TT was quite an oddball, albeit a talented one in his own way. It was semi-risky for Carson to have him on in 1968.

@@twohamburgers Gosh, Sam, I have always read and heard the same compliments as sjtom57 expressed regarding Tiny's pleasant and polite personality. According to Wikipedia he was described as a lonely outcast romantic who was "genuine" in his desire to bring happiness to others. Indeed the

Tiny Tim danced to his own drummer but he was brillant!

What a freak show! Imagine if everyone in the world was just like Tiny Tim? It would last about a month and then we’d all die.

well said!

Tienes toda la razón así es

well said, that's exactly it, many punk rockers for instance were obsessed with the guys.

Yeah he would have definitely loved this gay generation

@@Mazoncodmdude had 3 wives. He’s singing 1800s music of course it sounds weird

People don’t get that these days. I’m 29, people my age, and even older, have no idea what vaudeville is and how overwhelmingly influential it was in early tv and movie comedy. Marx Brothers started out in vaudeville all those old great comedy acts did z

Those are my thoughts also

Very unique. One of a kind.

Nowadays, religious right Conservatives would say he was encouraging young boys to become sissified, one only has to see what they said about that purple teletubby, and how they go completely insane over a multi-colored flag.

He was a self-admitted child molester. He was the biggest POS a person could be.

Very old, gentile soul. No fear or cares. He lived in his own heart. Love him.

Similar to trans and queer ppl

I think I'm seeing autism.

@@chinmeysway yeah autistic

@@chinmeysway He would not support those though, tiny was misogynistic beyond belief even for the time

Ok, quick question if you knew him: There are comments here saying people in this video were making fun/laughing at his expense. Now while I believe people were enjoying him hamming up his persona, at no point did I feel that anyone was in any way attacking or insulting him. Am I totally out of line for thinking that or are people just being too sensitive from nothing? I know damn well given his timeframe he would have been different and that would have in general caused problems for him, but in this instance I think people were surprised but enjoying his company and not demeaning him.

good for you

Awwww that is absolutely amazing wow I'm so happy that you had a fortunate chance to actually meet the Tiny tim and in person wow, I am so happy for you and anyone who was with you awww super and thank you for wanting to share this with us.

man did it work!

right on the nail , people are being too sensitive, just because they're laughing it doesn't mean they didn't like him, he was deliberately doing stuff that was funny.

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@@localgrassfieldboneshandlerthey forget alot of people laughed at Elton John, Freddie Mercury, Kiss, and many many more world renown artist.

Yes I agree he had his own style 😊

@@firstthings_first9828keep that energy with Elvis

I don't think he milked it at all. I don't think he cared one bit about being laughed at and I don't think he thought he was weird. He was just himself. He didn't even think about it. As a matter of fact, other people laughing probably just brought him more joy!

Murió en 1966 nisiquiera llegó a los 90 no seas mentiroso.

​@@danielvaldez9404murió en 1996 el 30 de noviembre ...

​@@danielvaldez9404shows what you know

@@danielvaldez9404In THE 90s, not in HIS 90s

@@sunnyanderson5385you don’t speak spanish do you? He said he died in 1966, and that he didn’t live to see the 90s. he is wrong tho

What made him smart and ahead of his time ?

I remember him from the pilot episode of SpongeBob "🎶living in the sunlight loving in the moonlight having a wonderful time🎶" song when SpongeBob is cooking for all the customers

A little eccentric? Lmao!

Tiny Tim told Miss Vicky in his wedding vows that he would not be puffed up.

He was a self-admitted child molester. Yea he was a real great guy.

@@roberts1572 Like you, but people like you are so so self absorbed you refuse to admit it

"a little eccentric" hahahaha

Maybe he was ahead by being behind.Someone else commented if he would have been in the 20's he would have been an even bigger success.

He was on the spectrum (Autism). I recognize that cadence in speech and the stimming. He exudes innocence like a child.

@@levanahyll5884 people being innocent and humble is autism? No Tiny tim didnt had autism, there is no evidence for that.

That was his intention

thats what he studied, read up!!

@@Pamledger478tiny Tim is more intentional than most people think. He wasn’t stupid he knew how he came off.

Nah he’s gay He would have loved this generation

​@@Mazoncodmhe literally had a wife stop speculating that people are gay just by they way they act in stage this is only a character he made and not actually him

He and Andy Kaufman would have made a great duo.

He certainly was brilliant on another level, with an encyclopedic knowledge of long forgotten Americana songs and lyrics. John Lennon and Bob Dylan were huge fans - they recognized the genius of Tiny Tim. However many did not, and unfortunately regarded him as a novelty act. Their loss.

I agree entirely

His genre of music is like the early 1900s 1910s but he was alreday in 1968 singing like that whole different era

Me too. Terrifying. But I still hate him.

@@gryper1690wtf lmaoo

​@@gryper1690😂😂😂

@@gryper1690 lolll

He liked to drink beer a lot, so it's possible he was an alcoholic, but from what I understand, he didn't use drugs.

​@@mickm5097 Alcohol is a drug

@@perfectfae3534 True technically, but in common speech, when we talk about drugs, we are usually referring to substances other than alcohol.

Because people these days are humorless snowflakes

@@painin2teeth2016 called. It wants it terminology back.

@TheAfterglowProject oh, you don't like my viewpoint, so you try to insult my lack of current vocabulary. I use words that few people use, and I use terminology that was popular decades ago because I like it. I don't try to conform to what people believe to be modern and hip.

@@painin2teeth that’s very apparent. You’re extremely sophisticated for using that term. We’re all very proud of you.

@@TheAfterglowProject haha. Are you 11 ?

Don Rickles knew when to go on the attack, and when to hold back. I didn't see him with Tiny Tim, but it doesn't surprise me that he was polite. Rickles never tried to hurt anyone on purpose. He was a class act.

@@williamanthony9090 I agree with you. To attack Tiny Tim in his signature way would have bombed and Rickles knew that.

I think guys like Rickles and Carson were partial to Tiny Tim in large part because he was singing standards in an era of rock music that they found foreign and disturbing.

Hi, ai guess I’m not sure of your reference to his health…how was he ahead of his time? Thanks in advance!

"Health-wise"? Where are you from Sister

Despite his healthy eating, he died in 1996 at age 64.

Why. Why do vegans ALWAYS have to act like newly "born again" Christians?

@@truthprevails7085 Well, there was a pretty significant part of the interview that you may have skipped about health foods, and taking care of your body from the inside out. He was also anti-drug anti-drink.

I talked to him briefly at a club he was performing at in the late 1980's. The audience wasn't very supportive, but most of them were too young to really remember him from the late 60's.

did you get any photos or autographs?

what year?

@@conradblaha1203 Never occurred to me to ask for a photo or autograph, I was just a teenager and didn’t know better. :) This was around 1975 or 76, in Honolulu.

No you didn't

Thinking back it kind of makes me sad as many people made fun of him, laughed at him and called him crazy.

@@lilybond6485 so true. I believe he was genuine. I do now at least. When I was a kid in the ‘60’s I thought he was weird. But now I see him totally different.

@Who Soever: Same. As a kid we all thought he was weird -- but we loved watching him -- because we thought he was so weird. Nobody else like him. NOBODY. How uniques is that ? Being that one of a kind. Now -- all these years later -- having moved 1,260 miles away from home 30 years ago -- I googled him a few years ago to see whatever happened to him and found out his gravesite is a 10 minute drive - if even that far - from where I currently live. Go figure.

@@lilybond6485 leave him a flower for me if you go.

@Who Soever: I just might visit the mausoleum where he is interred and if I go - not if - when - I will bring a flower from you -- and then come back here on comments and let you know. : )

😂😂u must be g a y too

​@@MERCEDESX111you must have no taste in music stop listening to yeat when you can't even get off your bed

No he was a grown ass man acting like a girl and that’s disturbing

@@grantelbart477ur weird

@@grantelbart477 who hurt you?

@@grantelbart477 how tho?

​@@grantelbart477 no parents?

eccentricity extraordinaire..

Wait, what? Tiny Tim is gone?

@@crochunter35 He died of a heart attack in late November 1996, when he was 64. He also was diabetic.

@@crochunter35 Yes, the others are correct. He died thinking of others. He had a heart attack and was advised by his doctors to stop performing which he ignored. He was performing at a benefit free of charge and right in the middle of his signature song 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' he suffered his fatal heart attack. While he was being helped off the stage, he collapsed, lost consciousness and died. If he WAS still with us, he would be 90 now!

Johnny actually stuttered! It wasn’t faked!

Rock on.

Thanks for sharing this!

do you still have that pic? id love to see!

@@conradblaha1203 my sister has it somewhere and I live 3,000 miles away from her. I don't know if she uploaded it to her Facebook or not.

@@AngryRantsAndStuff Maybe you should ask and let me know! Haha only if you're close with her!

Nice story. Thanks for sharing! He was so unassuming that he was easy to underestimate... but he was his schtick incarnate.

Please show me this picture? 😍🥰

I think his unique face makes it harder for us to replicate

How is that? People keep saying he was a genius how exactly?

It’s the facial expressions of cocaine. Trust me. Takes one to know one

How was his scent was?

@@itdobelikedattho8112 I also wanted to know. 😊😍

Died doing what he loved

He and Klaus Noomi were decades ahead of their time

How do you know he was straight? Did he say he was straight?

@@binghamguevara6814 Are you kidding? You didn't talk about that stuff outright back in those days! You have to know his history. He was a notorious womanizer who pursued and slept with many women, even during his 3 marriages. In fact, he suffered from premature ejaculation and several of the women he was with talked about how the sex would last only seconds because he was so excited. Here is a good read for you. “Tiny Tim and Mr. Plym: Life As We Knew It." It was written by his manager and it talks all about it as well as other things about Tim's life.

id like to know more about his parents

There is really not that much to say about his parents. Both of them were immigrants from Lebanon. They both worked once they immigrated here. His father in the textile industry and his mother in the garment industry in Manhattan. His father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish. Even though Jewish law states that if the mother is Jewish, the child is automatically Jewish, Tiny Tim was a devout Catholic all his life.

So many celebrities are like that... They project their shtick really hard up front while making a name for themselves, and relax much later. Cyndi Lauper is a fun example of this too... she was so funny in her early "airheaded babble-box" days. With both Cyndi and Tim, the act was so endearing, nobody minded.

@@1SqueakyWheel and lady gaga also is example

@@RosaGarcia-zd8zm Yes she is! I remember watching her on Leno one night, she was being a total space cadet. It wasn't like her at all, because she's given great interviews elsewhere.

His persona was a legit reflection of himself though. There is. Othing phony about this guy. He was developing his act for years before he became famous. He would have been doing the exact same thing in a dive somewhere if he never got famous

This was his first appearance on the Tonight Show. It was broadcast on April 4, 1968, the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. The producers got some severe criticism for airing the show and ignoring the breaking news . But actually it was the fault of NBC News for not having any correspondents available in Memphis to cover the story

Only one Johnny Carson. -- and one Tiny Tim.

He married 3x once to a 17 year old and insisted on open marriage so not that wholesome

​@@emem009 you say that like he was a perverted guy. He was much more delusional because for sure he had some Asperger and definitely belongs to the spectrum. He had a bunch of strange religious concepts in his mind .He was terrified about sexual diseases, for him its was like some God's punishment so he not accepted have relations before marriage and fight a lot against himself. Create a ideal world the existed only in his head, its was much more a tortured guy. Strange, weirdo but not a bad guy. If you think in Elvis Presley he started to date Priscilla at 14 and was really a abusive guy.

@@res9249 his manager wrote a book about him and said “However, Tiny - who got married three times - didn’t let his wedding ring stop him from bedding a steady stream of women.”

@@res9249 his manager wrote a book and stated TT did not let being married get in the way of sleeping with other women.

This guy looks scary af

More like Dr. Ruth.

Johnny was great at his job…. AND.. he was a narcissist I believe and abusive to women as well… hard for me… having a father like that .. charming to the public and extremely abusive man behind the scenes… xo