Tiny Tim

Tiny Tim(geboren alsHerbert Khaury;Manhattan,12 april 1932–Hennepin County,30 november 1996) was een Amerikaanse zanger enukelelespeler.^[1]Hij is vooral bekend door zijn versie vanTiptoe Through the Tulips,dat hij met een hogefalsetto/vibratostem bracht (1968).

Khaury overleed in 1996 in een ziekenhuis inMinneapoliswaar men hem poogde te reanimeren na eenhartaanval.^[2]

Tiny Tim heeft ook mee gedaan op eenchristmas flexidiscvanThe Beatles(1968).

Tiny Tim zingt een lied in een van de eerste afleveringen vanSpongeBob Squarepants.Het is de eerste aflevering waarin SpongeBob gaat werken bij deKrokante Krab.

Referenties

↑Tranquada, Jim(2012).The Ukulele: a History.University of Hawaii Press, 153–4.ISBN 978-0-8248-3544-6.
↑William Grimes,"Tiny Tim, Singer, Dies at 64; Flirted, Chastely, With Fame",2 december 1996.Geraadpleegd op18 november 2012.“Tiny Tim, whose quavery falsetto and ukulele madeTiptoe Through the Tulips With Mea novelty hit in 1968, died on Saturday night at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was 64 and had lived in Minneapolis for the past year. The cause of death apparently was cardiac arrest, a nursing supervisor, Ellen Lafans, told TheAssociated Press.He had been in poor health recently, and collapsed onstage after suffering a heart attack while performing at a ukulele festival in western Massachusetts in September.”

[1] Tranquada, Jim(2012).The Ukulele: a History.University of Hawaii Press, 153–4.ISBN 978-0-8248-3544-6.

[bio-2] William Grimes,"Tiny Tim, Singer, Dies at 64; Flirted, Chastely, With Fame",2 december 1996.Geraadpleegd op18 november 2012.“Tiny Tim, whose quavery falsetto and ukulele madeTiptoe Through the Tulips With Mea novelty hit in 1968, died on Saturday night at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was 64 and had lived in Minneapolis for the past year. The cause of death apparently was cardiac arrest, a nursing supervisor, Ellen Lafans, told TheAssociated Press.He had been in poor health recently, and collapsed onstage after suffering a heart attack while performing at a ukulele festival in western Massachusetts in September.”

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