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American singer and musical archivist Tiny Tim in Los Angeles, 1968. The late American singer is the subject of Johan von Sydow’s documentary “Tiny Tim: King for a Day.” Photo: Baron Wolman / Iconic Images
For anyone who has never heard him before, nothing can prepare you for the opening scene of “Tiny Tim: King for a Day,” where the long-haired, hook-nosed singer applies his freaky falsetto to Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe.”
No more unlikely entertainer has ever captured the pop zeitgeist than the one-of-a-kind Tiny Tim born Herbert Khaury in New York City in 1932 who managed to squeeze his 1968 debut album in the top 10 charts between Cream and Jimi Hendrix, and whose marriage to his first wife, Miss Vicki, on “The Tonight Show” was the highest-rated episode in Johnny Carson’s history.