Tiny Tim

American singer

Birthday: April 12, 1932

Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

Death Date: November 30, 1996

Age at death: 64 years old

Sign: Aries

About Tiny Tim

Tiny Tim was the stage name of American singer, multi-instrumentalist and musical archivist Herbert Butros Khaury. He is best recalled for making hits out of his renditions of the songs “Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”.

Tiny Tim taught himself to play the ukulele and guitar. He was a pre-teenager when he began preserving copies of sheet music he saw in the New York Public Library.

Family Life

He was born to Belarusian immigrant Tillie Staff and Butros Khaury from Lebanon. He was first married to Victoria Mae Budinger from 1969 to 1977. His second marriage to Jan Alweiss lasted from 1984 to 1995. As of his death, his widow, Susan Marie Gardner had been married to him for just a year.

Achievements

He has a star on First Avenue nightclub’s outside mural.

Death

He died on 30 November 1996 from a heart attack triggered while he was performing.

Tiny Tim Photo Gallery

Title

Tiny Tim performing for media interviews during Country Music Fan Fair at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds in Nashville Tennessee 1988 or 89 photo was taken by myself Christina Lynn Johnson, MagnetLoft while working for various Canadian Radio Stations during the event including CKDQ Q91 Drumheller, Alberta (On-Air name Tina Stephenson) Christina Lynn Johnson, MagnetLoft - Vistadeck ID 4507523 06:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Author

The original uploader was Vistadeck at English Wikipedia.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TinyTim.jpg

Credit

photo was taken by myself Christina Lynn Johnson, MagnetLoft while working for various Canadian Radio Stations during the event including CKDQ Q91 Drumheller, Alberta (On-Air name Tina Stephenson)

Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.

License

CC BY-SA 2.5

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Tiny Tim's Popularity

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People born on April 12 fall under the Zodiac sign of Aries, the Ram. Tiny Tim is the 2397th most popular Aries.

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