TINY TIM
Blowing kisses to crowds
of cheering fans,
struming his ukelele
while squealing yesterday's tunes
in a mock soprano voice,
Tiny Tim has done
the impossible.

   Tiny Tim (also known as "Larry Love," "Emmett Swink," "Rollie Dell," "Vernon Castle," and "Darry Dover") is many things to many people-- but to everyone, he is without a doubt the biggest surprise that ever happened in show business!! After years of rejection, Tiny Tim crashed the success barrier by doing virtually nothing more than playing 16 bars of "Tip Toe Thru The Tulips With Me" in high falsetto with a ukelele he carries in a shopping bag. The occasion was Rowan & Martin's premiere Laugh-In show last year, and no one will ever forget it!    Today the remarkable "Mr. Tim" is riding high on records, television, movies (You Are What You Eat) and concerts. Performing since he was five, this "ageless" phenomenon has become the pet "toy of the hip-crowd" and a source of wide-eyed amazement to the world!

March 1969
Source: Movie TV Secrets
Reproduced according to "Fair Use"