Format Details: Limited Yellow Tulip Vinyl / Yellow Tulip Vinyl
Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: New Sounds / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5013929064522
Release Date: 16 July 2021
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064012313
Description
Billboard Pop #7 Album In 1968! Rare Mono Mix: First Time On CD Anywhere! From The Original Master Tapes!
Born Of That Brief, Inspired Moment In Time When The Freaks Almost Took Over, April 1968'S God Bless Tiny Tim Is An Otherworldly Mission Statement From The Misunderstood Pop Culture Icon Who Almost Singlehandedly Invented "Other." Featuring The Top 20 Hit "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me." Produced By Richard Perry (Captain Beefheart, Holy Mackerel, Fats Domino, Nilsson), God Bless Tiny Tim Features Many Early 20Th Century Classics From The Great American Songbook, And Tracks Penned By Paul Williams ('Fill Your Heart' Was His First Major Album Appearance), And Gordon Alexander (His 'Strawberry Tea' Was Cut Around The Time Gordon Was Recording With Curt Boettcher). This Deluxe Expanded Mono Edition Features The Original Mono Mix Of The Album, Which Has Been Out Of Print Since 1968. Even Then, Copies Of The Mono Lp Were Promotional-Only For Press And Radio, Making This Mix An Entirely New Listening Experience For Fans. Also Included Are Previously Unavailable Instrumental Mixes Showcasing The Artistry Of Arranger Artie Butler In A Way Never Before Heard. Mastered By Alan Brownstein From The Original Master Tapes! The Extensive, Full-Colour Booklet Includes Rare Photos And Extensive Liner Notes By Kristian Hoffman. Produced For Reissue By Steve Stanley
Description
If you think, based on "Tiptoe Thru' the Tulips with Me" and his nationally televised marriage to Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show, that Tiny Tim was a mere novelty act, think again.
Behind that ukulele, pasty white make-up, falsetto, and prominent proboscis was a serious scholar of American music, perhaps the only performer of the '60s (and certainly the only performer of his age group) keeping the torch alive for songs from vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. Tim (born Herbert Buckingham Khaury) also was blessed with a stupendous vocal range, from baritone to his trademark falsetto, and was adept on not just ukulele but guitar, mandolin, and violin. Even with all that talent, though, had Tiny Tim just made a straight '20s trad jazz/pop/folk album for his debut record, God Bless Tiny Tim would not be the stone-cold cult classic it is today. But the album married Tim's innate eccentricity with stupendously lush production from Richard Perry, who was fresh from working on Captain Beefheart's debut, Safe as Milk, and would go on to produce everybody from Diana Ross to Rod
Stewart. With Perry's production, and Artie Butler's arrangements, God Bless Tiny Tim featured an incredible assortment of instruments, from didgeridoo to koto to celeste to tympani, with nary a ukulele to be found on many of the tracks. Furthermore, the album was sprinkled with some of the psychedelic fairy dust that was in the air at the time (1968), full of non sequiturs both verbal and musical (like the cover of Sonny Bono's "I Got You Babe"). The result: an album that stands outside of time, defying categorization or description. Now, Real Gone Music is releasing God Bless Tiny Tim on LP in an oh-so-appropriate yellow "tulip" vinyl edition limited to 700 copies. This
record belongs in any serious—or not-so-serious!—record collection.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
The Donnas
Tiny Tim
The Soul Searchers
Stina Nordenstam
Jesse Ed Davis
Fanny
William S. Fischer
Walter Bishop Jr
Tiny Tim
