Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim

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 Th...