TT was everywhere, did everything, was known by virtually everyone in America, pulled back the boundaries of the idea of ‘celebrity’, took weirdness to a new level and rubbed shoulders with the great, the good and the bleedin’ awful.
What do they all have in common? I’ll tell you, as if you hadn’t already guessed: Tiny Tim. You’re a gas! Telegram to TT from George Harrison 1968Īsk anyone of a certain age with an interest in popular culture what they associate with the America of the 60s and they might mention Folk Music, Flower Power, Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, ‘Happenings,’ psychedelia, Youth Culture and general weirdness amongst other things. Tiny was kind of a Dadistic statement of performance art that reshaped our point of view of what a singer could be, what a man could be. He may have tiptoed through the tulips but he left giant footprints in the happening New York scene of the 60s
Herbert Whone: 60s Chronicler of a Changing Industrial Glasgow. Bowie: The First Time (Or Loving The Alien). After Eight Advertising in the 60s and 70s: They Must Be Worth A Mint. Shoot and Goal Magazine: When Football Was Football and Not Just A ‘Product’. The Owl Service: Not In Front Of The Children?. I Mean This Most Sincerely Folks…Opportunity Knocks!. As Mad As A Ha’penny Watch: The Strange Case of 60s Comedians. Like A Bolt From The Blue.The Golden Shot. Here’s Something I Wrote Earlier.Blue Peter v Magpie. Warhol: From Soup to Nuts? How Wrong They Were. Cor Blimey Stan, How Did You Do It?: On The Buses. Tarbuck Memories: Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Standing At The Crossroads Of (TV) Quality. Kubrick’s Smoke and Mirrors: 50 Years of The Shining. The Big Match: Sunday In The Park With Brian. Magical Mystery Tour: What A Long Strange Trip It Was. #Tiny tim saying tv
Get Me A Guinness, Love, Would You?: Guinness TV Ads in the 60s and 70s. Aiiieee!: The Blood-Soaked Realm Of 60s Children’s Trading Cards. Jake Thackray: A Forgotten Musical Comedy Genius. The Former Lives of the Rich and Famous: 70s Football Stars At Home. Don’t Watch Alone: A Curiously 70s Frightfest. Freddie and the Dreamers: The Beatles of Uncool (But Fun!). The Sad Demise of the Pop Singles Charts. The Magic Christian: The Most 60s Film Ever Made?. Tony Hatch: Composer Of The Soundtrack For The 60s And 70s. The Avengers: Quirk, Strangeness and Charm (and bags of style). The Scaffold: The Group Who Put The (Thank) ‘U’ Into Ubiquitous. Marty Feldman: A Criminally Forgotten Comedy Genius. Dee Time: When The Sixties Really Began. 
The Utterly Weird Adventures Of Tiny Tim.Memories Of A Darkened Room: Children’s Summer Holiday TV Programmes.Herman’s Hermits Were HUGE during the 60s.
The Girl From UNCLE: A Brief But Memorable Phenomenon.
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