Who Leads A Waltzing Song Among The Tulips?

“Tip Toe Thru the Tulips” is a song originally written in 1929 by Al Dubin and Joe Burke, but made famous by the iconic musician, Tiny Tim. The song was performed beneath a flower-fringed window of one of the heroines by jazz guitarist Nick Lucas, known as the “crooning troubadour”. The lyrics describe shades of night are creeping, Willow trees are weeping, old folks and babies are sleeping, silver stars are gleaming, and all alone I’m scheming.

Tiny Tim made the song a novelty novelty on February 5, 1968, which is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture. Novelty songs partially overlap with comedy songs, which are more explicitly based on humor, and with musical parody, especially when the novel gimmick is another popular song.

Tiny Tim was a major celebrity in the late 60s and early 70s, with his wedding on The Tonight Show garnering a record 40 million viewers in late 1969. The name Tiny Tim was first popularized by author Charles Dickens and has been used by several musical performers, including a jump blues singer and a jump blues singer. The version with which I am familiar was sung by Herbert Khaury, professionally known as Tiny Tim, in the late 1960s. It became a popular song as part of the film “Gold Diggers of Broadway”, performed by Nick Lucas, known as the “Crooning Troubadour”.