Bobbie Gentry, Bing Crosby, Tiny Tim

[danielrdrown]

Bobbie Gentry is an American treasure. Her songs have been covered by the likes of Count Basie, Chet Atkins, Tina Turner, Tammy Wynette, Jackie Wilson, Ray Charles, Bill Evans,Reba McEntire.... Ode to Billie Joe ,alone, has sales of close to 50 million records on over 100 covers and Fancy- over 20 million. Like Bing said, she was a very astute business woman. She was one of the original owners of the Phoniex Suns basketball team with Andy Willams, Ed Ames and their manager.

[19shea85]

Anyone who takes Tiny TIm seriously or thinks he's a respectable musician should have their head examined.

[fleischpudding]

how awesome is this!!

[QueenKuehn]

Tiny tim took over the song. He rules!!!

[philh37]

Without a doubt, one of the stranger musical collaborations I've seen.

[animalcrossinman12]

Tiny Tim was creeper but admit his singing is awesome

[cuttock]

God damn Bobbie Gentry is HOT.

[MultiBBproductions]

@cuttock : Pshyeah, She's pretty hot for someone named after my deadbeat boss.

[14DaveHunter]

He and Bing Crosby were devote Catholics. I'm converting to Catholicism myself, so I feel honored knowing these two greats were Roman Catholic.

[vangard213]

Tiny Tim always reminded me of a LP on the wrong speed LOL

Does LP tell how old I am ? :(

[ausgang]

Tiny Tim was an original, hopefully never to be repeated! He still gives me the creeps!

[guglielmo64]

Bobbie Gentry was smokin' hot!

[dadoctah]

Bing once said Tiny Tim "had a vibrato you could throw a cat through".

[MinniePearlJam]

What you saw of Tiny Tim on stage was an act. In real life he was a very religious and respectful, conservative guy. He refused to ever address elders by their first names as seen in this video. He was also a walking encyclopedia of pre-rock American music. At the height of his career he was earning upwards of $50,000 per week. Not bad money, especially in the late 60s/early 70s.

[PreCodeMovies]

The more I've read about Tiny Tim, the more respect I've gotten for him. I think he was truly a unique and quite talented performer.

[LesnarNextBigThingF5]

@PreCodeMovies he was fuckin crazy

[thebigmarbowski84]

Bobbie Gentry was so gorgeous

[paullouismosley]

She probably still is...;-)

[cuttock]

GOOD GOD!! She was a hottie!!

[unfortunatebeam]

@cuttock really? she's not that great :{

[kcope001]

Wow! I love all three of these folks individually, but that is the strangest, most unlikely combination of singers in history I would think.

[greenieactress11]

bckm54, thats cool, i would have loved to meet him

[vj1062]

Wow. I thought Bing and David Bowie doing a duet was mis-matched.

[MrFrankygoestoboston]

Bobby Gentry is an angel.

[37terraplane]

That's show biz!!!

[FakeAdminBlarg]

now that is a line up!!

[bckm54]

I met Tiny Tim twice. He was an incredible human being, and a true gentleman. He had a photographic memory, and was a highly-regarded musicologist. And he was never haughty or arrogant.

[genericgeorge]

Bobbie is so hot here!

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

and a pretty likeness with Fran Drescher!

[37terraplane]

She IS hot!! Also reminds me of Shania Twain! But her son is an idiot!!

[bucks1414]

google tiny tim fan club merchandise for lovely tiny things!

[gasman396]

I met Tiny Tim once,actually he was a very nice man.

[nurikospecial]

3 legends!!!

[cjwaywell]

I reckon Tim was reaching for his jar of peanut butter when he saw Bobby appear.

[PsychedelicBB]

or mabee some honey

[VlsraWratS]

Or some Aunt Millie's sauce with sunflower seeds.

[mikeneko530]

Can you imagine what Bing really thought of Tiny Tim?

[galvestongal1194]

wow, you wouldn't think their voices would clash well together, but they do.

[mickeymoose76]

Why are most of the Tiny Tim videos on you tube such poor quality, especially sound?

[apekkapoika]

mickeymoose76

There wasn't all that much quality to tape, was there?

[scotpens]

This clip has probably been copied many times and is several generations removed from the original 2-inch studio broadcast tape. The original video recording was as clear and sharp as anything before HDTV.

[JG12739]

thats his voice. I'm sorry I just had to say something. have a good day

[monkeyboy27476]

eh?

[sjwolf64]

This beautiful & talented woman was amazing & paved the way for so many. Without her there would be no Shania Twain or Faith Hill. She made country sexy & cool. My friends & I who usually listened to rock as kids knew every word to her songs. This was in a day when you actually had to REALLY sing & not be helped with computers & such. I loved those songs that told a story. She had it all & was a real lady at that. A class act like her makes me proud to be a southern gal.

[hernje]

sjwolf64, Well said and accurate. To this day, Bobby Gentry (and Elizabeth Montgomery) knock my socks off.

[danieldrownr]

Mojo Magazine lists this clip as #5 on their year end list!

[salowolfdestael]

Let's treat the obvious misogynistic ignorance of someone calling Bobbie Gentry an 'attention whore' with the contempt it deserves! Bobbie wrote her own songs long before it was usual for singers to write sensitive, beautifully-observed vignettes and she dropped out of the public eye in her early thirties to pursue a quiet life. No, she was not so technically-perfect as Dusty (whose family were Scots-Irish, incidentally) but then who was? A true original as, in their way, were Bing and Tim.

[danieldrownr]

Dusty Springfield never transcended musical generes like Bobbie or write classic song hits( Ode to Billie Joe, Fancy ). She was also the first female to attain a million dollar Las Vegas showroom  contract and one of the first to start her own publishing and production companies. Sound business savy allowed her to retire on her own terms with millions and an empire that included a piece of the Suns Basketball team and thousands of acres of prime California farm land.

[unfortunatebeam]

@salowolfdestael how does calling one woman an attention whore mean you hate all women...grow the fuck up, or grow a brain, whichever

[B00NYK]

What do you get when you cross an old man, an attention whore, and a fruitloop?

This video

[danieldrownr]

Bobbie Gentry is the ONLY woman Elvis dated seriously and never cashed in on his friendship with a book deal. Privacy was always important to her. When this was taped in 1969 she was a four time grammy winner(with ten nominations) who was a superstar. She later hosted the Kraft Music Hall multiple times herself and had three primetime specials not to mention a hot career in Europe with hit records and her own B.B.C variey show which introduced James Taylor to the world

[Mick342]

Tim had BY FAR the best voice of the three.

and yeah she was hot, but Nowhere near good as springfield Or should i say O'Brien as her Family was IRISH!!!

[DakotaRogers]

Bing Crosby kinda resembles the new James Bond actor!!!HAHAHA

[nswhite]

OOOOOOOOOO MAN!!! That sounds GREAT with Tiny Tim! he should have done more collaborations, its beautiful.

[louienye]

The dumbell (below) doesn't even know how to spell "...leaving Bobbie Gentry..."

[louienye]

Tiny is singing the high soprano part , leving Bibbie gentry to do the alto. I read that it was not performed that way during the dress rehearsal. After the taping, Crosby got so pissed off that he beat the crap out of his sons Gary & Lindsay.

[findeerror]

The sequinned bandanna-print dress is what puts this over the top for me...

[ftsjr]

Voice-wise, Bobbie Gentry was America's answer to Dusty Springfield. They both had that smokey, sensual singing voice. And looks-wise, Bobbie Gentry was fuckin' HOT!!

[platinumpenink]

...similar to what Jay and Dave DO.

Grammar check! lol

[johnnybsteelriff]

The nature of variety shows in the 60s was just so weird. I remember Dusty Springfiled duetting with henmdrix on her show once. Bobbie Gentry was just such a fox it was untrue, and a great songwriter, TT an oddball and Bing, well he always looked like a Victorian father. Strange combo....

[scotpens]

And there was Bing's famous duet with David Bowie doing "Little Drummer Boy" on a Christmas special. In fact, they recorded an entire album together. It was a transitional era when rock was becoming the dominant musical idiom but the swing, Broadway and big-band styles were still current. Somewhere on YouTube there's a clip of the Grass Roots singing "Live For Today" -- and being introduced by Jimmy Durante!

[jmen4ever]

Tiny had a habit, like the crazy astronaunt chick, of wearing adult diapers. odds are, hes got them on here.

[fireheart102667]

tiny tim was not "deeply strange"! i love tiny tim!

[pekoe]

ya think they passed around a Doob before this... heeee heee

[urbild]

Crosby was being a dick.

[macpipkin]

Truth is Tiny Tim had a great deal of talent for, knowledge of and respect for music. Mr Crosby wouldn't have been near him otherwise.

[stonedrolling]

That was cool. I remeber seeing the Big T on Johnny Carson all the time. He probably got his big break on his show. More than likely he was brought on as a novelty act, which the viewers must of loved because he kept bringing him back. Similar to whatJay and Dave does.

[7beers]

Wow, that was nice. They should have done away with the talk altogether and had more singing.

[Bobb9999]

Tiny looked and sounded a little like a freak in the '60s, but his biggest influence and repertoire was 1920s music, and '20s male singers often did sing with a high pitched vibrato style, just like Tiny! By '20s standards, Tiny wasn't so weird sounding.

Bob Dylan recalls Tiny playing the NY coffeehouses when Bob first arrived on the scene.

[PREZ150]

Every body was freakie in 1960's Tiny Tim was just part of that era.

[scotpens]

Check out the YouTube clips of Nick Lucas, the original "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" guy, singing his signature tune in film footage from 1929, 1944, and at his 80th birthday party at home with friends in 1977 (the last in a more normal voice without the falsetto). Lucas was clearly one of Tiny Tim's inspirations.

[JackWarren2]

jesus Bing got himself in some odd combinations...

[ihearttinytim]

Bless Tiny's sweet little heart... He's just too cute for words.

[poopyscoopy101]

2 bad tiny wasnt tiny

[accordionsfrommars]

Tiny was just shy.

[unfortunatebeam]

@accordionsfrommars lol talk about a non-sequitor response

[ihearttinytim]

OMG!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! AWESOME! It's cool that Tiny got to sing with one of his favorite artists!

[accordionsfrommars]

Yeah, Tiny sure did love Bing Crosby. He was one of his heroes.

[maddymud]

yup, although me thinks he loved the crooner that preceded Bing more -- Russ Columbo

[accordionsfrommars]

Tiny Tim! What a sight! He was so sweet.

[dentgt]

so glad tt had a chance to perform with bc. tt was very kind to me when I met him around 1980, even sang impromptu sheet music I had brought, Monrning glories grow

[charmingwizkidwizard]

Yay, tiny tim. :D

[tallulah2]

Oh, Bobbie Gentry. Why are you so fabulous?