Tiny Tim - God Bless Tiny Tim: The Complete Reprise Studio Masters... And More (2009)

Tracklist

001. Welcome to My Dream (Remastered Version)
002. Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me (Remastered Version)
003. Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moon Light (Remastered Version)
004. On the Old Front Porch (Remastered Version)
005. The Viper [Remastered Version] (Remastered Version)
006. Stay Down Here Where You Belong (Remastered Version)
007. Then I'd Be Satisfied with My Life (Remastered Version)
008. Strawberry Tea (Remastered Version)
009. The Other Side (Remastered Version)
010. Ever Since You Told Me You Loved Me (I'm a Nut) (Remastered Version)
011. Daddy, Daddy What Is Heaven Like (Remastered Version)
012. The Coming Home Party (Remastered Version)
013. Fill Your Heart (Remastered Version)
014. I Got You Babe (Remastered Version)
015. This Is All I Ask (Remastered Version)
016. Tip Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me (Single Version)
017. Bring Back Those Rockabye Baby Days (Single Version)
018. Hello, Hello (Single Version)
019. On the Good Ship Lollipop (Single Version)
020. America I Love You (Single Version)
021. Mickey the Monkey (Single Version)
022. I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop (Single Version)
023. There'll Always Be an England Bless 'Em It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Studio Single Version)
024. There'll Always Be an England Bless 'Em It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Live Single Version)
025. Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You (with Harry Roy & His Band) (Single Version)
026. What Kind of American Are You (Single Version)
027. Why (with Miss Vicki) (Promo Stereo Single Version)
028. The Spaceship Song (Single Version)
029. Come to the Ball (Remastered Version)
030. My Dreams Are Getting Bigger All the Time
031. We Love It (Remastered Version)
032. When I Walk with You (Remastered Version)
033. Community (Remastered Version)
034. She's Just Laughing at Me (Remastered Version)
035. Have You Seen My Little Sue
036. Christopher Brady's Ole Lady
037. Great Balls of Fire (Remastered Version)
038. Neighborhood Children (Remastered Version)
039. I Can't Help but Wonder (Where I'm Bound) (Remastered Version)
040. It's All Right Now (Remastered Version)
041. Down Virginia Way (Remastered Version)
042. Medley I'm Glad I'm a Boy - I'm Glad I'm a Girl My Hero (Remastered Version)
043. As Time Goes By (Remastered Version)
044. On the Good Ship Lollipop (Remastered Version)
045. Sunshine Cake (Remastered Version)
046. Mickey the Monkey (Remastered Version)
047. Hot and Cold Water (Remastered Version)
048. Two Times a Day (Remastered Version)
049. Chickery Chick (Remastered Version)
050. Oliphant the Elephant (Remastered Version)
051. I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop (Remastered Version)
052. They Always Pick on Me (Remastered Version)
053. Aren't You Glad You're You (Remastered Version)
054. Sadie the Seal (Remastered Version)
055. The Viper (II) (Remastered Version)
056. Bill the Buffalo (Remastered Version)
057. Remember Your Name and Address (Remastered Version)
058. What the World Needs Now is Love (Remastered Version)
059. Frisco Flo
060. Radio Spot #2 (Remastered)
061. Meet the Sun Halfway
062. Radio Spot #3 (Remastered)
063. Hallelujah, Bless the Peace!
064. Radio Spot #4 (Remastered)
065. People Are Strange
066. Radio Spot #1 (Remastered)
067. Little Fairy Princess
068. Bunny Nose [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
069. Yum Yum [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
070. Who Stole Baby's Bottle from the Drawer [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
071. Little Fairy Princess [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
072. Alice Blue Gown [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
073. My Daddy Long Legs [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
074. Pretty Little Cinderella [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
075. I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop [Remastered - Demo Session #1] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #1)
076. Hot and Cold Water [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
077. Tiny's Helpful Hints [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
078. Two Times a Day [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
079. Remember Your Name and Address [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
080. Mickey the Monkey [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
081. Sadie the Seal [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
082. Orange the Orangutan [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
083. Lina the Laughing Hyena [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
084. On the Good Ship Lollipop [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
085. The Name Song [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
086. Tommy Tax [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
087. Hallelujah, Bless the Peace! [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
088. Let's Make the World of Tomorrow Today [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
089. How to Spell Friendship [Remastered - Demo Session #2] (Demo; Remastered - Demo Session #2)
090. Horror Story - The Lost Job [Demo Session #3] (Demo; Demo Session #3)
091. They Always Pick on Me [Demo Session #3] (Demo; Demo Session #3)
092. That Hypnotizing Man [Demo Session #3] (Demo; Demo Session #3)
093. That's a Good Girl [Demo Session #3] (Demo; Demo Session #3)
094. She Laughs [Demo Session #3] (Demo; Demo Session #3)
095. School Days
096. Jim, Jim (I Always Knew That You'd Win)
097. Stay Home, Little Girl, Stay Home
098. Oh! The Woman in Room 13
099. My Song of the Nile
100. You Were There (Demo Session #5)
101. Let's Find out Tonight (Demo Session #5)
102. The American Pioneer (Demo Session #5)
103. It Took a Good Woman (Demo Session #5)
104. Beloved Don't You Mind It Honey If the World Goes Wrong (Demo Session #5)
105. I Can't Behave When You're Around (Demo Session #6)
106. Bill the Buffalo Zoozical Musicals (Demo Session #6)
107. I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop (Demo Session #6)


When he burst into public recognition in 1968, people either regarded Tiny Tim as a lovable wacko, or simply a wacko; though Tim's eccentricity seemed both charming and oddly appropriate in the wake of the Summer of Love, despite his long hair and beatific attitude, he was no hippie, but instead an amateur archivist of American popular song who made it his life's crusade to remind people about the joys of the Tin Pan Alley era. In his own odd way, Tiny Tim was one of the first artists of the rock era to celebrate the notion of the Great American songbook, though his fondness for a warbling falsetto delivery, his thrift-store wardrobe, his slightly fey personality, and his championing of the ukulele as his favored means of accompaniment was every bit as anomalous in 1968 as it would be today. While Tiny Tim was (principally) marketed as a novelty act and treated as a joke by many who presented him to the public (one of his most frequent television platforms was on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In), Tim wasn't kidding - he loved and lived for this music, and he performed it in a historically accurate manner, remaining true to his musical vision right up to the very end (he died in 1996 moments after performing his umpteenth rendition of "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips" for a women's club in Minneapolis.) While Tiny Tim stubbornly continued to record up until his death, far and away his most successful album was his 1968 debut on Reprise Records, God Bless Tiny Tim, in which producer Richard Perry created a thoroughly charming if occasionally outré musical spectacular around the crooner, and he would record two other albums under Perry's tutelage before Reprise pulled the plug on Tim's major label recording career. Ten years after Tiny Tim's death, his work for Reprise has finally made its way to CD in a limited-edition box set from Rhino Handmade, God Bless Tiny Tim: The Complete Reprise Recordings. This three-disc set collects Tim's three Reprise LP's - God Bless Tiny Tim, the equally charming follow-up Tiny Tim's Second Album, and the uneven children's disc For All My Little Friends - along with a handful of non-LP singles and a few unreleased tracks. Most interesting for Tiny Tim enthusiasts will be the material on disc three, which features 39 demos in which Tim joyously reels off one song after another, as if he could go on for days on end if there were time and tape enough. The remastering of the audio is splendid, and Barret Hansen (aka Dr. Demento) provides a superb biographical essay for the accompanying booklet. With the possible exception of Ian Whitcomb, there's never been a "one-hit wonder" who has done as much to document the history of American popular music as Tiny Tim, and God Bless Tiny Tim: The Complete Reprise Recordings finally gives him the belated tribute he deserved; anyone with any interest in this strange but gifted artist at the peak of his fame (and his abilities) needs to hop on the internet and get this set while it lasts.

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