The Grave & DEATH SITE of TINY TIM, Herbert Khaury

I have actually been here and visited Herbert before we're here today to visit the final resting place of folk musician Tiny Tim Herbert Corey dipto to the Tulips I believe we found him in the lower basement area here in this maum if I remember right when we were here last time Tiny Tim was extremely extremely religious in his life tree of life down [Music] here right when we get down to the tree of life you make a left right over Here's the final resting place had a lot of names for himself Larry the singing Canary and various other things but here's Herbert Corey Mr Tiny Tim lived from 19 1932 to 1996 grew up in New York I think a lot of people looked at Tiny Tim as kind of a spectacle or a sideshow and he kind of saw himself as that too but he really was a very devoted performer uh he would perform pretty much his entire life for making you know sometimes up to $50,000 in Vegas or as little as almost next to nothing just because he liked to perform he said he almost couldn't think of any night in his life where he wasn't out playing a ukulele or singing Somewhere in a back alley or an amateur club or something throughout his life even as a kid he was kind of strange he had a victrola that he would only have one record to listen to and he would play it over and over for hours just cranking that record was the beautiful Ohio and he would listen and listen listen and just become obsessed in his younger days with 1930s kuner music Rudy Valley he really loved and would often imitate and then later on when he started performing and uh befriending Greenwich Village musicians like Bob Dylan he would actually tell them that those were his big influences he was very musical even as a young man he learned how to play guitar before he was 10 and then eventually learned how to play the violin and of course the ukulele and just Lov to play music and he was always kind of an oddball in his area he'd slick his hair down he would wear suits he just really didn't fit in and then he saw Rudy Valentino in an old picture and he started putting white makeup on his face and growing his hair out long and that became his look you would see him walking around New York City in like 1954 looking like the Tiny Tim that we would pretty much know throughout the rest of his life he basically started with odd jobs and then when he started making a little bit of money performing in those amateur shows like I said he would just he he basically figured out when he had an appendectomy one time how to sing falsetto and once he discovered it he thought it was different enough that that's something he should do all the time so that's how he would perform with the aletto with the ukulele and he said you know he thought if you're different that sticks out to people all of a sudden [Music] he Lemonade Stand everywhere crack so he wanted to sound different he wanted to be different and a talent scout saw him ended up wanting to make a record with him so he moved to Los Angeles for a while made a record Tiny Tim was not a great songwriter he was is not known for that he actually was the opposite he loved doing cover songs and telling people who originally was responsible for that that great song and Tiptoe Through the Tulips would become a hit because they would end up as a way promoting him put him on well he gave him an audition anyway for Rowan of Martin's laughing the toast of G grenwich Village and his first appearance anywhere Tiny Tim [Music] i t get aell B and when he showed up and performed they just thought he was hilarious and they would do a bit with him where he would be out performing and they would keep acting like he was done and start a preliminary like applause to get him off stage and he was just very likable though on stage so he ended up doing Johnny Carson and unfortunately on his first performance he was actually on the same day that Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated so they eventually had him come back and while he had out been out promoting his new record he was doing like an autograph signing and fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he would name Miss Vicki see he us like 30 7 and she was 16 and they started dating and people would say it wasn't that he was so much of a pervert or anything it was just that he was so religious he would spend hours reading the Bible and he would just he looked at them like an a younger aged woman as like pure Purity all my songs I always go in a dream world and I think of young beautiful angels about 19 years old and pure thoughts of CA so they started dating for a couple of weeks fell in love and he proposed and he was old school he wanted like you know a subservient wife and when he came back on Johnny Carson he told them about her and told them that they were going to get married and when they went to commercial or took a break someone told Johnny hey tell them they can get married here so he offered to have them get married on the show and that's exactly what they did when Miss Vicki was 17 now he said that she Che on him he would say in an interview that he found out that she had a man writing her letters and that she had been unfaithful before they were married and he was really upset by that apparently blew his top at her which I think he didn't necessarily say that he hit her but it kind of seemed like maybe he he was physical and she was actually she had they had a kid together um she ended up going to New Jersey and filed for divorce he never ever believed in divorce and never would have wanted it so he never really considered um the divorce being real but yeah he uh basically never from what I read never took care of or really had a relationship with his daughter and he would just continue to you know he made another record didn't do all that great of course cuz he was like a novelty act he you know he would perform in sesh shows when he was trying to make money in the early days and he saw himself as like a Vaudeville type performer so he didn't actually feel bad about doing that kind of stuff he he looked at himself as a flash in the pan and just saw himself as like I'm I'm lucky to have had the success that I had and now I just need to make enough to get by and he basically lived like that for several years not to be mean I always thought he had a very peculiar appearance um I think the first time I ever saw him he was in some sort of like short clip in a commercial I actually thought he was Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch of the West when I saw it and then I did see like a a rerun of laugh and his appearance on there and then growing up I would watch Howard Stern's F and he was a frequent guest on there but Howard apparently didn't know that um Tiny Tim was very very devout and very religious and Howard kept saying Jesus and things like that over and over and finally Tiny Tim even though he' been on the show several times started kind of laying into Howard saying I don't appreciate you being disrespectful and I'm not going to put up with it and the interview kind of took a sad turn and Gary deat Baba buy for the Howard Stern Show said they tried to contact Herbert Tiny Tim half a dozen times to get him on the show and he would refuse every single time one thing that always stuck out in my mind about him was that when he was on Howard J he would talk about how he was a proponent of adult diapers and that he wore them all the time he said they were very sanitary very clean he would use like a certain Vaseline lotion on one half of his body and then a different kind on the other half of his body there were certain foods he wouldn't eat um he was even diabetic I mean that was he had a lot of health problems in his life but he had like a really peculiar diet things that he uh he would eat at certain times of the year but I did see a lot of um comments online with people that were friends with him that said he was the nicest most genuine guy you could ever meet he was uh very kind and if you're respectful he was very respectful back but yeah Howard Stern just um as you can imagine you know just didn't uh didn't take it seriously and for someone who like Herbert who uh was very very devout and would spend hours a day praying and things like that he really just couldn't get past it now he's actually buried here in Minnesota outside of Minneapolis because in 1979 he got married for the third time to miss Su and uh Miss Su and he moved to Minneapolis and that's where they lived out their days I believe she had family in the area because he um was very sick at the end of his life because of the diabetes and he was told not to perform anymore but he just he loved to do it like said he he really didn't even care if there was money involved he knew people wanted to see him and if even one person came out to see him he wanted to see them back so month before he died he was performing in Massachusetts and um had had a heart attack had to be taken to the hospital and was told there that he needed to recuperate that he needed to not perform anymore as his last performance he went out um in front of the Women's Club here in town and um the band leader basically didn't announce him um sent the band on a break because they didn't know any of his songs and uh most of the crowd left but there were just a couple people there and uh he figured if there were a couple people there to see him he wanted to perform so he got up and he did Tiptoe Through the Tulips and um Miss Vicki asked him if he was okay and he said no and uh right there they started to work on him and he ended up dying so in a weird way it was kind of a nice thing that something he loved so much which was performing and that he just put his heart and soul into so often and with such um explosive if you watch his performances you really never knew what you were going to see I found all kinds of videos like the no two performances were really the same so he put so much into it it's almost fitting that he would get one last performance of his hit song before he would uh call it an end to his Earthly life here that's something else he kind of thought about he he always kind of assumed some point life would evolve to living in space and he was kind of hoping he would be around long enough to see it but fortunately he wasn't Tiny Tim several guy had several several different um names that he performed by in his early years but he went with Tiny Tim because of the obvious Charles Dickens connection but he also went by uh Derry Dover sir Timothy Tims I'm hoping that Miss Sue will be buried here um she from everything I found was a really sweet person and uh people that knew them both said she was really the the true love that he needed in his life he was hung up on Vicki because he didn't believe in divorce and and all that and he didn't want it but Miss Miss Sue was was the one that truly loved him truly took care of him she was a Harvard graduate and uh was a fan of his since you know he was or since she was young and truly appreciated him didn't mock him the way a lot of people did she truly saw the beauty in his personality and who he was and the way he felt about things and that's a beautiful thing so I hope she'll be here at some point now his parents his father was kind of supportive of his musical Endeavors and his uh musicality but his mother looked at the way he dressed and how he behaved and how he acted and she literally wanted to have a psychiatric evaluation done she wanted to take him to Belleview and have them make sure he wasn't completely insane or if he was she wanted to find out how to get him back to being normal it was his father that stepped in and stopped her from sending him off to padded cell somewhere kind of makes you wonder if these flowers are for him forever tiptoeing Through the Tulips forever in falsetto even though Tiny Tim loved the falsetto he loved the 1930s music that's not all he would cover he actually would do songs by like the doors so thought that was pretty cool the uh the gamut he would cover in his musicality now we're going to head over since it's only 2 miles away we're going to go over and see where he performed his last show November 30th 1996 this was the Women's Club of Minneapolis and this is where Herbert Corey Tiny Tim performed that very last show actually had a limousine bringing him to the event and my friend Scott Michaels had interviewed Miss Sue and she said that when he got out of the limo and was uh walking up onto the sidewalk that he lost his footing and almost fell very fitting because uh they did have a paramedic come going to see if there's any way to go inside while we're here Stage Door all right no success that is a uh they're actually still using that that's a Women's Club and it's pretty full so I can't go in there but um yeah he had had his incident a month before and was told not to perform because he actually needed heart surgery his heart was only operating at 40% and he didn't want to have the surgery he said he wanted to basically join god with the same heart that he had when he was alive without any scars on it or anything so he showed up to perform here as a kind of as a favor to his wife's mom and because people loved him and he was waiting to be called up but the band leader apparently didn't know that he was going to be here and didn't like him so for hours after they ate even though Tiny Tim was not feeling well his health was not good he had already stumbled coming in he continued to wait they went and got the organizer and said you know he really needs to go on right now because he needs to go home he's wearing out so the band leader like I told you earlier just sent his his entire band off to a break had no intentions of them backing him up and um Tiny Tim went up with a ukulele that was not in tune and did his best performance that he could give and uh right after Tiptoe Through the Tulips he could see that he was swaying and had had trouble kind of walking up there anyway and um she went up and asked him if he was okay he said no and they got a doctor that was here to start helping him while they waited for a paramedic to arrive fortunately they took him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead as a kind of a nice Goodwill thing actually had the last suit that he was performing in cut up and my friend Scott Michaels who has a channel called dearly departed um he actually has a piece of the fabric the you know I guess you a Swatch of his last suit it was cut up and given to fans so rest in peace Tiny Tim at least you had one last go one last song they have a lot of plaques there on the wall three of them right there in fact and I was hoping one of them would be the last performance of Tiny Tim but unfortunately no thank you all for watching we'll see you next time from Minneapolis Minnesota have a good night and Tiptoe Through the [Music] Tulips cuz there's a great SP behind every shadow when you think I am insane and I think 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