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My Brush with Greatness
I got to meet Tiny
Tim. My friend back in Dallas, Jim "Big Bucks" Burnett, is a
music
impresario and, among so many other things, founder and president of
the Tiny Tim Fan Club.
He even had the Tiny Tim Museum.
I told him that, as a goof, I had
gotten ordained by the Universal LIfe Church of Modesto, CA,
so that I could perform a friend's wedding. He told me that Tiny
was in town and had fallen
head-over-heels (for the millionth time) for some UNT co-ed and wanted
to marry her, and
would I do the honors.
Naturally I said yes, but since I
blabbed about how I exercised my First Amendment rights
to get ordained, he did the same thing and ended up doing the ceremony
himself.
Still, I got to attend the wedding (music by Carl Finch and Jeffrey
Barnes of Brave Combo)
and went to the after-party in the home of Steve "Little Jack Melody"
Carter. Tiny found a
cupboard by the piano with loads of old sheet music, and was pawing
over each one, saying
things like, "Oh, this was a great hit by Mr. Johnny Mercer from 1947,"
and he would sing
and pantomime playing. He was a sweet, gentle, wonderful man, but
he's obviously from another planet.
Sadly, he died a few years later, on stage and doing what he loved the
most.
Koresh bless Tiny Tim.
Best regards,
Jeff in Seattle
I
believe Tiny Tim's other wedding to Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show
was one of Johnny Carson's
biggest ratings spikes ever.