Showing posts with label Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Show all posts
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September 5, 2025
Howard da Silva articles/mentions
mentions:
Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake ~ The Blue Dahlia
Martha Schlamme ~ The World Of Kurt Weill In Song
Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake ~ The Blue Dahlia
Martha Schlamme ~ The World Of Kurt Weill In Song
December 17, 2021
The Wedding of Tiny Tim & "Miss Vicki"
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photographer unknown
Fifty-two years ago today, on Wednesday, December 17, in 1969, television history was made when Tiny Tim and Victoria Budinger were married by Rev. William Glenesk on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.
photo: Getty Images
The wedding of Tiny Tim
to "Miss Vicki", as he called her, was a huge television event, viewed
in more than 21 million households with 40 million people watching, a Tonight Show record at the time. In attendance on the show were the episode’s other guests: Florence Henderson, Phyllis Diller, and Nick Lucas.
Nick Lucas - 1969
screen shot 
When the couple’s engagement was announced by Tim on the Tonight Show, Carson asked, “Now, this is your first marriage, isn’t it?” Tim replied, “Yes, Mr. Carson, and last,” after which he added, “The fact that she is 17, I would like to say that a lot of prayer is involved at the moment and, of course, I’ve always loved youth, but only in the right way.”
After showing off Vicki’s engagement ring, Carson asked Tim about his past relationship history, at which point Tim admitted that he was saving himself for marriage, although he admitted, “I’m no saint: I have, to my sorrow, slipped in that, and thank God-to-Christ he’s protected me and I never had any relations with a woman.” The “slipping,” as it turned out, was merely a reference to having kissed Vicki a few times, but as Carson assured him, "A little kissing isn’t bad before marriage.”
A few minutes later, after Vicki left the stage, Carson asked Tim if he and Vicki would like to be married on TV, and Tim accepted without hesitation. Vicki had actually wanted a traditional wedding and had anticipated that their nuptials would take place at her parents’ house. The first bump in their marriage.
A few minutes later, after Vicki left the stage, Carson asked Tim if he and Vicki would like to be married on TV, and Tim accepted without hesitation. Vicki had actually wanted a traditional wedding and had anticipated that their nuptials would take place at her parents’ house. The first bump in their marriage.
Although their marriage didn't last, they had one daughter, Tulip Victoria, in 1979. Tim and "Miss Vicki" largely lived apart and they divorced three years after the birth of their daughter. Tim married two more times and Budinger married several more times.
On November 30, 1996, Tim was playing at a gala benefit hosted by the
Women's Club of Minneapolis. He had let his third wife ("Miss Sue") know
before the show that he was not feeling well, but did not want to
disappoint the fans. Before the start of his performance, most of the
audience had left. While performing his last number of the evening, he
suffered another heart attack on stage in the middle of a rendition of
his hit, Tiptoe Through the Tulips. His wife asked him if he was
feeling all right, and he said he was not; she was helping him back to
their table when he collapsed, and never regained consciousness.
Victoria May Budinger died on the 30th of November in 1996 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; she was 64 years old.
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April 12, 2021
45 RPMs 61: Tiny Tim ~ Keeping My Troubles To Myself
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Tiny Tim ~ Keeping My Troubles To Myself
vinyl 12" 45 rpm front cover
cover photo by Willyoung
photo of record cover by Styrous®
Today is the birthday of American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist of Tiptoe Through the Tulips fame, Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka professionally as Tiny Tim.
Khaury displayed musical talent at a very young age. At the age of five, his father gave him a vintage wind-up Gramophone
and a 78-RPM record of "Beautiful Ohio" by Henry Burr. He would sit for
hours listening to the record. At the age of six, he began teaching
himself guitar. When he was eleven years old, he began learning to play the violin and later, the mandolin and the ukulele.
By his pre-teen years, he developed a passion for records, specifically
those from the 1900s through the 1930s. He began spending most of his
free time at the New York Public Library,
reading about the history of the phonograph industry and its first
recording artists. He researched sheet music, often making photographic
copies to take home to learn and became an aficionado of vaudeville and early twentieth century music and its singers, e. g. Rudy Vallée, a hobby he continued for his entire life.
Tiny Tim ~ Keeping My Troubles To Myself
vinyl 12" 45 rpm back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®He was actually a baritone and did not have such a bad voice as witness his covers of the classic songs Highway to Hell by AC/DC, Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees and, somehow, it seems totally apporpirate that in 1988 he did a cover of the Frank Sinatra classic, My Way (links below).
Tiny Tim ~ Keeping My Troubles To Myself
vinyl 12" 45 rpm back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®On September 28, 1996, Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack just as he began
singing at a ukulele festival at the Montague Grange Hall in Montague, Massachusetts. He had recorded a video interview earlier that same day at the Montague Bookmill). He
was hospitalized at the nearby Franklin County Medical Center in Greenfield
for approximately three weeks before being discharged with
admonitions not to perform again because of his health, weight, and
dietary needs for his diabetic and heart conditions. He ignored the
advice.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 - The Bible My Mother Left For Me - 4:02
A2 - Forever Miss Dixie - 4:15
Side 2:
B1 - Keeping My Troubles To Myself - 4:15
B2 - The Last Mile Of The Way - 5:23
Companies, etc.
Side 1:
A1 - The Bible My Mother Left For Me - 4:02
A2 - Forever Miss Dixie - 4:15
Side 2:
B1 - Keeping My Troubles To Myself - 4:15
B2 - The Last Mile Of The Way - 5:23
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – EMI Custom Records
Notes:
A Noive and Voive production for Street of Dreams.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
A Noive and Voive production for Street of Dreams.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout: YPRX 2095A
Matrix / Runout: YPRX 2095B
Matrix / Runout: YPRX 2095B
Tiny Tim – Keeping My Troubles To Myself
Label: Noive & Voive – YPRX 2095
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Mini-Album
Country: Australia
Released: 1983
Genre: Pop
Style: Novelty
YouTube links:
The Bible My Mother Left For Me
Label: Noive & Voive – YPRX 2095
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Mini-Album
Country: Australia
Released: 1983
Genre: Pop
Style: Novelty
Viewfinder links:
NY Times ~ Tiny Tim Dies at 64 With Fame
Roger Ebert ~ The last days of Tiny Tim
RollingStone ~ Tiny Tim: His hard road to success interview
Ukulele Magazine ~ The Strange and Improbable Rise of the Bizarre Tiny Tim YouTube links:
The Bible My Mother Left For Me
Styrous® ~ Monday, April 12, 2020
Tiny Tim - 1968
photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
“Death is never polite, even when we expect it.”
~ Tiny Tim
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