Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim by Justin Martell & Alanna Wray McDonald

Author:Justin Martell & Alanna Wray McDonald [Martell, Justin & McDonald, Alanna Wray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Music, Individual Composer & Musician, Folk & Traditional, Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781908279873
Google: A1cjrgEACAAJ
Amazon: B01BLXQRZ6
Publisher: Jawbone
Published: 2016-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

A SERIOUS QUESTION FOR A MINUTE. WHAT IS THE STATUS OF YOUR CAREER? SOME PEOPLE HAVE SUGGESTED THAT IT’S ALL OVER.

Tennis did, however, pose the question to Tiny prior to the taping. ‘Mr. Tennis,’ Tiny replied, ‘frankly, it’s going down.’

A year and a half earlier, on May 18 1970, Carson had, at Tennis’s suggestion, declared, ‘It seems as if Tiny Tim’s career will outlast the opinions of his detractors. Tiny first appeared on The Tonight Show a little over two years ago, and rather than being merely a flash in the pan, he is still working regularly.’ After this latest appearance, however, he would not be invited back to the show for some time, while his Vic-Tim Christmas single quickly faded from view.

‘It is a very sad thing,’ Tennis later told biographer Harry Stein, ‘but it was as if the whole phenomenon dissipated. It was just suddenly gone. And as Tiny faded, no one pushed us to have him on. There was no pressure at all from his people. That would have extended it a little while.’

It was not just The Tonight Show that was losing interest. In 1971, Tiny made only one appearance on his other mainstay, Laugh-In, appearing alongside the original cast as ‘Laugh-In’s first and favorite guest’ for the show’s one-hundredth episode special on November 1. The prevailing message was that he was back, but the reality was that he had never gone—rather, he had been passed over. Either way, Tiny played along and delivered the jokes the show’s writers had written for him. ‘I’d like to thank Mr. Rowan and Mr. Martin,’ he said, ‘for making a well-known personality out of a plain, ordinary guy like me.’

At the close of 1971, Playboy magazine featured a verse about Tiny Tim in a poem about the year gone by.

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