# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tiny-tim
# Generated: 2026-09-07T15:22:49.810Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/tiny-tim"
name: "Tiny Tim"
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description: "He sang \"Tiptoe Through the Tulips\" in a trembling falsetto on national television in 1968 and became one of the strangest pop sensations America had ever seen — ukulele in hand, long hair curtaining his face, voice climbing into registers most men never touch."
tagline: "American singer and musician (1932–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tiny_Tim_in_1969.jpg"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1932-04-12"
deathDate: "1996-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Herbert Butros Khaury was born April 12, 1932, and spent years as a musical archivist before the world knew him as Tiny Tim. In 1968 he released a cover of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me," a song from the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, and the recording became a hit. His vocal range was wide, but it was the falsetto — soaring, odd, unmistakable — that defined him. He kept performing until his death on November 30, 1996, a figure who never quite fit the decade that made him famous.