![]() ![]() However, when I went to use the Loo, I passed a partially open bedroom door, and there on the side of the bed was Tiny Tim on the phone to someone, could have been his manager. That’s kind of because I didn’t travel in those exalted circles yet, being only a young songwriter from Queens. Not sure, but I think a meeting was going on with Pete Schekeryk and Melanie. I missed that, but everyone was talking it up.Īnother time, I went to Peter Yarrow’s apartment near Central Park South. Not finding any, one of their members allegedly pissed into a desk before leaving. Although uncertain, it seems that the FBI or some other law enforcement agency had come looking for illegal drugs. Carey.” During an odd and often frustrating hour, and while keeping a straight face, I showed Tim the chords, words, and melody, I heard a commotion in the main office. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper.Īnd so I was relegated to a side room alone with this strange man who only spoke with a falsetto voice and who kept calling me “Mr. Johnny wanted me to teach a song we’d written about a yellow canoe to Herbert Khaury, aka “Tiny Tim.” All I knew about Tiny Tim was his 1968 hit song: “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.” Taken from his first album called God Bless Tiny Tim. In my teens and newly signed to a $50 a month songwriting job, I was in awe of visiting the offices of the Loving Spoonful’s record company. We were going to the offices of Buddha and Kama Sutra Records. Which was becoming an extension of the new Tin Pan Alley, now the center of Pop Music’s song publishing world, in the famous Brill Building, some two streets away off 49th street. My songwriting partner, the under-assistant east coast promotion man, Johnny Wonderling, brought me to New York’s famed “1650 Broadway”–the office building at the corner of 51st and Broadway. I propose that Tiny Tim had distal renal tubular acidosis (type I).I first met Tiny Tim sometime in the late 1960s. Such treatments with vitamin D and alkalinization with sodium bicarbonate and sodium citrate suggest the plausible speculation that Tiny Tim had renal tubular acidosis (type I), a disorder that is characterized by growth failure and, if left untreated, complicated by osteomalacia with pathologic fractures, hypokalemic muscle weakness and periodic paralysis, nephrocalcinosis leading to renal failure, and death. From review of pediatrics texts from 1830 to 1850, a recommended treatment plan would have included (1) general measures such as country air and exercise, and fish oils such as cod and halibut (vitamin D), and (2) specific treatments of tonics (containing combinations of belladonna, opium, sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate, and potassium chloride) emphasizing alkalis, and splinting and bracing the limbs. Following the ghostly visitations, Scrooge vows to assist the struggling Cratchit family financially, thereby making available the best medical care money could buy. From details of the original manuscript and the eight film versions, it is possible to construct a differential diagnosis for Tim's short stature, asymmetric crippling disorder, and curious intermittent weakness that would lead to his death, if untreated, within a period of 1 year. Yet the nature of Tiny Tim's multifaceted and implicitly reversible illness is a mystery and open to debate and speculation. One of the most endearing characters in English literature is Tiny Tim, the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit. ![]()
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