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Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim Book Justin Martell McDonald
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Alanna Wray McDonal
- Brand
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- EAN
- 9781908279873
- ISBN
- 1908279877
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Colour
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Outline Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1908279877
ISBN-13
9781908279873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215976615
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eternal Troubadour : the Improbable Life of Tiny Tim
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Musical Instruments / Strings, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"It's the best book about Tiny Tim IMO, with far more info than the others, and what seems to me like a balanced attitude toward this complex and remarkable man, who was such a magnet for controversy. His story is all there, the depressing parts and the thrilling parts. I'll be referring to this a lot, and cursing the publishers every time for not including a %$&?% index!" - Dr. Demento
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
782.42164092
Synopsis
As Bing Crosby once put it, the rise of Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business.' In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, the falsetto-voiced, ukulele-playing Tiny Tim landed a recording contract with Frank Sinatra's Reprise label and an appearance on NBC's Laugh-In. The resulting album, God Bless Tiny Tim , and its single, 'Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me,' catapulted him to the highest levels of fame. Soon, Tiny was playing to huge audiences in the USA and Europe, while his marriage to the seventeen-year-old 'Miss' Vicki was broadcast on The Tonight Show in front of an audience of fifty million. Before long, however, his star began to fade. Miss Vicki left him, his earnings evaporated, and the mainstream turned its back on him. He would spend the rest of his life trying to revive his career, with many of his attempts taking a turn toward the absurd. While he is often characterized as an oddball curio, Tiny Tim was a master interpreter of early American popular song, and his story is one of Shakespearean tragedy framed around a bizarre yet loveable public persona. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with family, friends, and associates, plus access to Tiny's diaries, which have never before been made public, Eternal Troubadour tells the incredible true story of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in the history of popular music., As Bing Crosby once put it, Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business'. In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, the forty-something falsetto-voiced, ukulele-playing Tiny Tim landed a recording contract with Sinatra's Reprise label and an appearance on NBC's Laugh-In. The resulting album, God Bless Tiny Tim, and its single, 'Tip-toe Thru' The Tulips With Me', catapulted him to the highest levels of fame. Soon, Tiny was playing to huge audiences in the USA and Europe, while his marriage to the seventeen-year-old 'Miss' Vicki was broadcast on The Tonight Show in front of an audience of fifty million. Before long, however, his star began to fade. Miss Vicki left him, his earnings evaporated, and the mainstream turned its back on him. He would spend the rest of his life trying to revive his career, with many of those attempts taking a turn toward the absurd. But while he is often characterized as an oddball curio, Tiny Tim was a master interpreter and student of early American popular song, and his story is one of Shakespearean tragedy framed around a bizarre yet loveable public persona. Here, drawing on dozens of new interviews, never-before-seen diaries, and years of original research, author Justin Martell brings that story to life with the first serious biography of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in popular music., The first major biography of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in American popular music, drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-seen diaries, and years of original research.
LC Classification Number
ML420
As told to
McDonald, Alanna Wray
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