Tiny Tim & The Purple Cross

Raji's

Hollywood, CA.

August 20th 1993

Reastered audience recording.

Great gig, chatty crowd.

America's answer to George Formby?

You may consider Tiny Tim to be a novelty act.

Falsetto 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips'...right?

But you'd be shortchanging him.

His genuine knowledge and desire to keep alive

a certain type of American music/history is palpable.

Part of my weird-week stuff...but good!

regards

Titus

01 intro/In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

02 That Wonderful Mother 0f Mine

03 Turn Back the Universe (and Give Me Yesterday)

04 The Girl on the Magazine Cover

05 medley:

I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover

Baby Face

Shuffling Along

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye

When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)

Carolina in the Morning

Sonny Boy

06 Beer Barrel Polka/Your Cheatin' Heart/He'll Have to Go

07 Tiptoe Through the Tulips/On the Good Ship Lollipop

08 America the Beautiful

09 Rock n Roll medley:

Great Balls of Fire

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Shake, Rattle & Roll

Highway to Hell

10 Beer Barrel Polka (reprise)

11 I Got You Babe (with Duchess de Sade)

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Tiny Tim

Fillmore Auditorium

San Francisco, CA

May 9th 1968

As a youngster in the late 60s Tiny Tim

facinated and scared the shit out of me

in equal measures.

I recently found out he starred in a horror film

called Blood Harvest in 1987

so hats off to the casting director!

I have acquired a copy of that but haven't

plucked up the courage to watch it yet.

This is a short set.

I believe he was opening for H.P. Lovecraft

which would have been a great night out.

I wish I had the Lovecraft set but alas

it has not surfaced to the best of my knowledge.

regards

Titus

01 intro

02 Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight

03 Animal Crackers

04 On the Old Front Porch

05 The Viper

06 Stay Down Here Where You Belong

07 Tweedle Dee

08 Tiptoe Through the Tulips

09 I Got You Babe

10 Earth Angel

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