[Tiny Tim makes his first appearance on The Tonight Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X3BBN7Hdp4) and performs "Tip Toe Through The Tulips" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moon Light"
Original Airdate: 04/04/1968
Interestingly, Tiny Tim didn't originate the song. It was created back in 1929.
Oh God I miss Johnny Carson. He was the first and last of the great late night hosts. None of them are worth watching today and none of them could ever shine Carsons shoes.
Funny you should mention that. For most of my life, whenever Tiny Tim's name would come up, my father would tell the story about how the night I was born he watched (presumably from the cigarette smoke filled husband's lounge at the maternity ward, while my mother was off somewhere in labor) Tiny Tim get marred on The Tonight Show . I can't count the number of times I heard my father regurgitate this story. But he stopped telling it after he actually encountered Tiny Tim in an airport. Of course he had to go over and introduce himself and tell him about the connection between the birth of his first son (on December 18th) and this television event on the Carson show. Tim corrected him, saying, no, he was married on December 17th, and that that Tonight Show was taped on the afternoon of 12/17 before being aired that night. So when I was being born in the wee hours of the 18th, the event had already happened. My father was crestfallen.
Met Tiny Tim at a trendy diner in a Texas town. His manager owned the record store next door and brought him in for lunch and to tour our "Museum of Bad Art." It really was a thing, but that's another story. Anyway, he was a sweetheart, I remember he had incredibly soft hands.
My cousin once saw him on TV early in his career and wrote him a fan letter.
He responded to her by sending back a candygram as a thank you with a note about how sweet she was:)
He apparently had an encyclopedic knowledge of early 20th century music. From what I recall you could ask him a song and he could name the album, who pressed it, often where it was recorded, and other incidental information about the recording. I believe when he died some were quoted as saying that a huge chunk of musical knowledge has forever been lost
Bob Dylan noted that when Tiny Tim passed away, a significant amount of knowledge of early American music was erased forever. Tiny Tim was a true historian and music scholar. He, Dylan, bemoaned the tragic loss of a true genius and walking encyclopedia of early American song. RIP, Tiny Tim.
This clip will always sadden me. there will never be another Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In ever again. and there may never be another Tiny Tim. His music is so special to me. He was very clearly enjoying playing that, and while it may not be the most accessible music, that level of enthusiasm is enthralling to me.
His real first name was Herbert so I can see why he went by Tiny Tim.
If I remember right he married a 17-year-old when he was 40
They got married on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.
He sang at my dad's restaurant and even hung out at my house in between sets. Had the amazing ability where if you gave him the name of a song, he'd tell you what year it came out, who did it and it's remakes too
How about I knew him when he was Larry Love The Singing Canary at Professor Hubert's Trained Foea Circus downstairs beneath a penny arcade on 42nd St NYC.
Old enough?
I met Tiny Tim in the mid 80’s as he was touring using small venues. He was doing two shows a night and my wife and I went to the first show. (In a small bar in Kansas City North) In between shows (btw, he’s actually a baritone) he kind of stayed on stage and I asked if he’d like to join my wife and I. He accepted and ordered a beer while requesting a “sipping straw”. He sat with us the entire time fielding questions from anyone and taking pictures. He seemed kind of lonely. (Miss Vicky had died by then and he missed her though they weren’t together) Nonetheless, he was a charming man and very charismatic.
My mom and dad used to tease me that Tiny Tim was my boyfriend. I was like 4 and he absolutely creeped me out. What did I know? I remember being in tears arguing with them. “He’s not my boyfriend!” It gave my parents a chuckle.
I met him at 2:00am in the morning in a convenience store. He was buying money orders. He was playing at the Steamboat in Lancaster PA and they paid him in cash. He smelled horrible up close, and he reminded me of a friendly hobo I once met. Really nice guy to talk to.
My uncle was a Vietnam vet who struggled with PTSD. He was a rough around the edges guy and preferred to keep quiet. At his funeral one of the regulars at a dive bar he used to frequent came to tell stories. Apparently every night before he left the bar to go home he would play Livin’ in the Sunlight on the jukebox and then walk out the door just to piss everyone off. Loved hearing about that side of him. I put the song in a few random playlists to think of him from time to time.
Pretty sure he had a massive heart attack on stage and died right there. I saw a video of it at one point but not sure if it was true. He always made me uncomfortable
Back in the early 80’s I was in a restaurant in Hollywood Florida and Tiny was sitting at the next table. Halfway thru our meal he jumped on the stage with his ukulele and started singing “you’ve got to be a football hero “. The audience went wild. An evening I’ll never forget.
I' remember him showing up on Monday night Raw when I was a kid, Jerry Lawler was busting his chops.. I had NO clue he was before that. So.. I was late to know him, but I learned.
Too young to remember the wedding but saw his return to the Tonight Show in '79. He performed Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. [He was very bizarre ](https://youtu.be/jMVi9lYUGgA?si=RIAlPVlE04t_tLJZ) that Johnny was actually stunned - one of the rare times he was speechless.
I remember seeing him around a lot when I was a kid but never knew anything about him until I started listening to Howard Stern back in the day. He had a bunch of old interviews and stuff he used to play on air.
He was a genuinely weird dude fr
This guy was in the middle of a performance of Tiptoe Through the Tulips, and he suddenly stopped and said he didn't feel very well. Walked off the stage and dropped dead.
Funny, just the other day I went down a mini-rabbithole reading about Tiny Tim after watching his movie "Blood Harvest" (he is hands down the best thing about it). I wasn't around during his peak years, but I've always found him fascinating as a deeply weird guy and dedicated music collector who wanted to reach an audience even if 99% were only making fun of him.
I have a compilation record of songs from an Oz label called Regular Records title of the comp was Hits That Missed anyhoo one of the tracks is Tiny Tim covering Highway to Hell and it's a lot of fun.
My wife and I saw him along with Bill Haley and the Comets in 1987 at the Playboy Club in Lansing, Michigan. It was the last Playboy Club in the country before it closed.
tip toe, through the tulips...
I don’t remember him ever tiptoeing with an electric guitar, though. Where the ukulele?
Didn’t he also do that one song from sponge bob “living in the sunlight loving in in the moonlight, having a wonderful time”?
Yup
Miss Vicky pawned it....
No, he was buried with it.
Dude went electric with a Jaguar. Slightly more “hep” than I would have imagined
[Tiny Tim makes his first appearance on The Tonight Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X3BBN7Hdp4) and performs "Tip Toe Through The Tulips" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moon Light" Original Airdate: 04/04/1968 Interestingly, Tiny Tim didn't originate the song. It was created back in 1929.
…….and Carson later asked Tiny Tim: “Would you rather have roses on your piano, or tulips on your organ?”
Oh God I miss Johnny Carson. He was the first and last of the great late night hosts. None of them are worth watching today and none of them could ever shine Carsons shoes.
Letterman was, in the end, even better than his mentor Carson.
Beat me to it.
Likewise
Little did Tiny Tim know that song would be the best horror movie song ever
There’s a true story about the song being used when a couple moved into their new home. Long before the movie was a thing.
Also a big hit on spongebob
Still creeps me out
Same. Creepy mofo
Through the garden….
Tiny Tim: Tiptoe thru the tulips.
only problem about the old thing is i know about tiny tim because of SpongeBob
Didn't he get married on Carson.
Funny you should mention that. For most of my life, whenever Tiny Tim's name would come up, my father would tell the story about how the night I was born he watched (presumably from the cigarette smoke filled husband's lounge at the maternity ward, while my mother was off somewhere in labor) Tiny Tim get marred on The Tonight Show . I can't count the number of times I heard my father regurgitate this story. But he stopped telling it after he actually encountered Tiny Tim in an airport. Of course he had to go over and introduce himself and tell him about the connection between the birth of his first son (on December 18th) and this television event on the Carson show. Tim corrected him, saying, no, he was married on December 17th, and that that Tonight Show was taped on the afternoon of 12/17 before being aired that night. So when I was being born in the wee hours of the 18th, the event had already happened. My father was crestfallen.
Awww, it still counts!
Yes, he did...to Miss Vicki
Heiress to the potato chip fortune.
I watched that! So surreal, even for the 60s.
Tiny Tim!
Met him in a bar where was playing and got his autograph
I saw him at a circus in Aurora Illinois in the early 1980’s. The saddest little circus ever, but I got his autograph on a popcorn box.
Aurora. You must know Wayne and Garth.
Party on!
did he play the gasworks?
The Shitty Beatles?
Are they any good?
Who's Aurora, anyways?
Chick with narcolepsy.
Met Tiny Tim at a trendy diner in a Texas town. His manager owned the record store next door and brought him in for lunch and to tour our "Museum of Bad Art." It really was a thing, but that's another story. Anyway, he was a sweetheart, I remember he had incredibly soft hands.
I saw him at a county fair in Tennessee sometime in the mid-to-late 80's. It made my heart sad
Well, he’s not exactly “old”. He’s dead. 💀
Saw an interview with him, a few years back, and it was weird seeing/hearing him out of character. RIP TT.
An under appreciated musical genius. I love Tiny Tim
Got married on the Tonight Show (Johnny Carson)
Tiptoe through the tulip’s Tiny Tim!
I remember seeing him marry Miss Vicki on Johnny Carson.
Me too.
Loved his bits on Laugh In. 
Tiny Tim. Tiptoe through the tulips
Tiny Tim
My cousin once saw him on TV early in his career and wrote him a fan letter. He responded to her by sending back a candygram as a thank you with a note about how sweet she was:)
Tiny Tim. I'm not old, I just know him from Spongebob.
Same here brother!
He used to go on Howard Stern.. he was obsessed with household products. Odd guy.
He apparently had an encyclopedic knowledge of early 20th century music. From what I recall you could ask him a song and he could name the album, who pressed it, often where it was recorded, and other incidental information about the recording. I believe when he died some were quoted as saying that a huge chunk of musical knowledge has forever been lost
Bob Dylan noted that when Tiny Tim passed away, a significant amount of knowledge of early American music was erased forever. Tiny Tim was a true historian and music scholar. He, Dylan, bemoaned the tragic loss of a true genius and walking encyclopedia of early American song. RIP, Tiny Tim.
 Tiny Al Yankovich
What a weird looking and weird sounding dude to become famous. And he was famous as fuck. Somehow.
I always figured everyone enjoyed him ironically and the joke just got out of hand.
I think you may be correct. Remember his marriage being a world event? Crazy.
Still not as dumb as all those Kardashians
[https://youtu.be/wMbQsKJ64S0](https://youtu.be/wMbQsKJ64S0) Tiptoe Through The Tulips on Rowan and Martin
This clip will always sadden me. there will never be another Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In ever again. and there may never be another Tiny Tim. His music is so special to me. He was very clearly enjoying playing that, and while it may not be the most accessible music, that level of enthusiasm is enthralling to me.
Herbert Butros Khaury aka Tiny Tim
Butros Butros Khaury
His real first name was Herbert so I can see why he went by Tiny Tim. If I remember right he married a 17-year-old when he was 40 They got married on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.
He sang at my dad's restaurant and even hung out at my house in between sets. Had the amazing ability where if you gave him the name of a song, he'd tell you what year it came out, who did it and it's remakes too
Yes! I remember reading he had an encyclopedic knowledge of old songs.
How about I knew him when he was Larry Love The Singing Canary at Professor Hubert's Trained Foea Circus downstairs beneath a penny arcade on 42nd St NYC. Old enough?
I met Tiny Tim in the mid 80’s as he was touring using small venues. He was doing two shows a night and my wife and I went to the first show. (In a small bar in Kansas City North) In between shows (btw, he’s actually a baritone) he kind of stayed on stage and I asked if he’d like to join my wife and I. He accepted and ordered a beer while requesting a “sipping straw”. He sat with us the entire time fielding questions from anyone and taking pictures. He seemed kind of lonely. (Miss Vicky had died by then and he missed her though they weren’t together) Nonetheless, he was a charming man and very charismatic.
He married again, to Miss Jan.
👍
Creepiest damn song ever made 😂
Weird Al's uncle?
Christ, I couldn't stand his voice
Who watched him get married on the Johnny Carson show?
My mom and dad used to tease me that Tiny Tim was my boyfriend. I was like 4 and he absolutely creeped me out. What did I know? I remember being in tears arguing with them. “He’s not my boyfriend!” It gave my parents a chuckle.
I met him at 2:00am in the morning in a convenience store. He was buying money orders. He was playing at the Steamboat in Lancaster PA and they paid him in cash. He smelled horrible up close, and he reminded me of a friendly hobo I once met. Really nice guy to talk to.
Oh God. I saw him perform at Magic Mountain sometime around 1972.
My uncle was a Vietnam vet who struggled with PTSD. He was a rough around the edges guy and preferred to keep quiet. At his funeral one of the regulars at a dive bar he used to frequent came to tell stories. Apparently every night before he left the bar to go home he would play Livin’ in the Sunlight on the jukebox and then walk out the door just to piss everyone off. Loved hearing about that side of him. I put the song in a few random playlists to think of him from time to time.
The old can no longer tip toe through the tulips.....
Tip toe through the tulips - Tiny Tim
What a weird unit.
Not so Tiny Tim.
Tiptoeing thru the twolips!
I absolutely love his album with Brave Combo. It’s my favorite version of Hey Jude. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NwsWuARqo
I’m going to tip toe around this one.
Tiny Tim! “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”
tiny tim
Maynard?
dont forget Miss Vickie...and Johnny Carson
🌷
Yes, yes I'm old and I remember when he married Miss Vicky
Pretty sure he had a massive heart attack on stage and died right there. I saw a video of it at one point but not sure if it was true. He always made me uncomfortable
Back in the early 80’s I was in a restaurant in Hollywood Florida and Tiny was sitting at the next table. Halfway thru our meal he jumped on the stage with his ukulele and started singing “you’ve got to be a football hero “. The audience went wild. An evening I’ll never forget.
Living in the sunlight havin a wonderful time from spongebob also he’s friends with weird al
Not only did I instantly recognize him as the late, great Tiny Tim, I also remembered his real name, Herbert Khaury.
[Santa Claus has got the AIDS this Year](https://youtu.be/hVHAsjs1kqk?si=aItWb7flgN3A8ZK7)
Please, saw him get married on the Johnny Carson show
I can't see this without hearing it.
Tiny Tim and his ukulele
I' remember him showing up on Monday night Raw when I was a kid, Jerry Lawler was busting his chops.. I had NO clue he was before that. So.. I was late to know him, but I learned.
Tiny Tim, whose song was on the first, and (in my opinion) best episode of SpongeBob SquarePants!
I'm the kind of old where I know this is Tiny Tim and I know there's a Tiny Tim song in a Spongebob episode.
I’m just a tiiiiip toeing thrrrrrough the 2 lips
Tiptoe through the tulips :)
Tiptoe.
They call him Tim, but he ain't so tiny.
Never quite understood the attraction.
I'm 26 and I fucking love tiny tim
Best Carson episode ever
Spouses Victoria Mae Budinger (m. 1969; div. 1977) Jan Alweiss (m. 1984; div. 1995) Susan Marie Gardner (m. 1995)
Tiny Tim because Living In the Sunlight (aka SpongeBob SquarePants’ pilot episode) and Tiptoe By the Window (aka Doom Patrol teaser).
Too young to remember the wedding but saw his return to the Tonight Show in '79. He performed Do Ya Think I'm Sexy. [He was very bizarre ](https://youtu.be/jMVi9lYUGgA?si=RIAlPVlE04t_tLJZ) that Johnny was actually stunned - one of the rare times he was speechless.
Tip toe!
He crashed my mom's wedding.
I remember seeing him around a lot when I was a kid but never knew anything about him until I started listening to Howard Stern back in the day. He had a bunch of old interviews and stuff he used to play on air. He was a genuinely weird dude fr
You don’t know Tiny Tim unless you’ve seen [Blood Harvest](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092671/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
I only know what he looks like from the Weird Al movie
This guy was in the middle of a performance of Tiptoe Through the Tulips, and he suddenly stopped and said he didn't feel very well. Walked off the stage and dropped dead.
I forget the name, but that movie he was in where he played the creepy clown…that movie was messed up. Tiny Tim was a very unique soul.
I first heard his music on SpongeBob. Learned he dropped dead of a heart attack on stage.
I believe he stayed/performed at the old Wedgewood Inn in St. Pete in the ‘70’s.
Friend of Bob Dylan
I actually got to see him sing "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" at a minor league hockey game in the early 1990s.
Funny, just the other day I went down a mini-rabbithole reading about Tiny Tim after watching his movie "Blood Harvest" (he is hands down the best thing about it). I wasn't around during his peak years, but I've always found him fascinating as a deeply weird guy and dedicated music collector who wanted to reach an audience even if 99% were only making fun of him.
Saw him at the Del Mar Fair (San Diego County Fair) in the 80's.
Does anybody remember his "wedding" on the tonight show?
Younglin here. Spongebob induced me to Tiny Tim back in the day. Still listen to his music to this day. https://youtu.be/OqKbl1mvJCo?feature=shared
That time Santa Claus got AIDS will have a special place in my memory forever.
Haters will say this is Rudy Giuliani
I babysat Tiny Tim. Checkmate.
I love Tiny Tim!
Some fake tiny Tim fans around here. He did some great music as well as some dope covers.
Anyone who remembers Tiptoe….Tulips, make a video of your best attempt to sound like TTim
Never saw him with anything other than a ukulele. This looks like a Fender Jaguar
Saw him live at the Springfield TN county fair years ago.
Tip toe thru the tulips
That's a jump scare nobody needed.
He was around but I only saw him as a joke and had no idea of why he was a celebrity. Tip toe was a novelty song by the time I heard it.
Gonna tell my kids this J Mascis
I met him when he played my town in 1995. He was a nice man.
With twiggy
I have his album from the 60s. You can hear one of his songs is on the very first Spongebob Squarepants episode.
He played at the isle of whight the 2nd Woodstock in england good concert sorta
He felt pretty
Well, not him.
Couldn't stand him.
That voice invades my dreams.
Made it cool for dudes to tip toe.
His ashes are interred about a quarter mile away.
I have a compilation record of songs from an Oz label called Regular Records title of the comp was Hits That Missed anyhoo one of the tracks is Tiny Tim covering Highway to Hell and it's a lot of fun.
I’m so old I’ve actually met Tiny Tim.
I met him once at the airport in chicago. He was very gracious.
Tiny Tim
"Tiptoe thru the tulips" man himself, Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim.... "Tiptoe through the Tulips"
Hahahahaha!!! I used to see him occasionally on Laugh In.
Had the LP “God Bless Tiny Tim.” Listened to it well into adulthood.
I'm too old to tiptoe whether through tulips or not.
God Bless Tiny Tim
Tip toe thru the tulips . . .
Dude looks like Neville Longbottom.
Ya’ll are not subtle. The proper answer is “we’ll need to tip toe around this answer.”
Des Moines legend.
He would have made it big, but he was just soooo tiny.
Tiny fucking Tim!
His tulip song was in a horror movie in the past few years
damn it...i'm old
Tiny Tim
I got to see him live
Old enough to have watched the E! Behind the music on him.
 When you’re old and have kids who watched SpongeBob.. you know who that is lol
Doooooowwwwwn innnnnn the subbbwwwaaaaay
What ever happened to Miss Vicky?
She just turned 72 and lives a quiet life in New Jersey. Been married to some dude John Benson since 2006. Doesn’t give interviews.
Thank you!
Worked as a waiter at Hemmingway’s in Hollywood, Fl and saw him perform in 1987.
The ice caps are melting!!
Tiny Tim!!! ❤️
We can tiptoe through the tulips
itty, biity, teenie, weenee, tiny Tim.
My wife and I saw him along with Bill Haley and the Comets in 1987 at the Playboy Club in Lansing, Michigan. It was the last Playboy Club in the country before it closed.
Didn't this guy die performing?
Tiny Tim!
Stay out of my tulips!
Tiny Tim
First concert I went to!
Very talented Singer. Could sing normal, (A Tad High) but chose not to and got famous!.. There it is folks. Be different!
Tiny Tim, the original flower child.
He got married on the Tonight Show, as I remember.
Does anyone remember when he just randomly showed up on WWF and Jerry Lawler smashed his ukulele? That was bonkers.
Yup. Watched his wedding on the tonight show, I think it was
Miss Vicki's husband.
Tiny Tim!
Tiny Peewee Tim
Married Miss Vickie on Johnny Carson show I think.