ETERNAL TROUBADOUR: THE IMPROBABLE LIFE OF TINY TIM
Book ID/图书代码： 05793016B87678
English Summary/英文概要： As Bing Crosby once put it, the rise of Tiny Tim represents ‘one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business.’ In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, the falsetto-voiced, ukulele-playing Tiny Tim landed a recording contract with Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label and an appearance on NBC’s Laugh-In. The resulting album, God Bless Tiny Tim, and its single, ‘Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me,’ catapulted him to the highest levels of fame.Soon, Tiny was playing to huge audiences in the USA and Europe, while his marriage to the seventeen-year-old ‘Miss’ Vicki was broadcast on The Tonight Show in front of an audience of fifty million. Before long, however, his star began to fade. Miss Vicki left him, his earnings evaporated, and the mainstream turned its back on him. He would spend the rest of his life trying to revive his career, with many of his attempts taking a turn toward the absurd.
While he is often characterized as an oddball curio, Tiny Tim was a master interpreter of early American popular song, and his story is one of Shakespearean tragedy framed around a bizarre yet loveable public persona. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with family, friends, and associates, plus access to Tiny’s diaries, which have never before been made public, Eternal Troubadour tells the incredible true story of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in the history of popular music.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 正如宾•克罗斯比曾经说过的，蒂尼•蒂姆的崛起体现了“演艺领域中获得最惊人成功的故事之一。”1968年，在格林威治村的潜水酒吧和拉拉夜总会演出后几年，并一直与像鲍勃•迪伦和莱尼•布鲁斯这样的人来往，假声配音和四弦琴演奏家蒂尼•蒂姆与法兰克•辛纳屈的重复标签唱片公司签订了录音合同，并做客了NBC的Laugh-In节目。最终发布了专辑“上帝保佑蒂尼•蒂姆”，其单曲“与我一起悄悄穿过郁金香”获得了空前的成功。
很快，蒂尼开始面向美国和欧洲的广大听众演唱，而他与十七岁的密斯•维姬结婚的消息在今夜脱口秀向五千万观众播出。然而不久，他的星途开始褪色。密斯•维姬离开了他，他的收入缩水，主流又将他带回原地。他一生都在试图恢复他的事业，做了许多尝试，最终走向荒诞主义。
虽然蒂尼•提姆经常被描绘成是一个古怪的人，但他依然是美国早期流行歌曲的大师，他的故事是围绕一个奇怪又可爱的公众形象的莎士比亚悲剧之一。本书借鉴了一百多个其家人，朋友和同事的访谈，加上蒂尼之前从未被公开的日记，《永恒的民谣歌手》讲述了流行音乐史上最具魅力但被误解的人物之一的令人难以置信的真实故事。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 贾斯廷•马特尔是一位独立电影人和作家。被认为是世界上研究蒂尼•提姆的一流专家，他已经为两张蒂尼•提姆死后发行的专辑“我从来没有见过一个直香蕉”（收藏家的选择，2009）和“失物招领：卷1”（秘密七记录，2011）写专辑注解和做咨询。2013年，他前所未有地在限量版的爱迪生蜡管上制作了蒂尼•提姆的轨迹，被时代杂志称为“发行过的最复古唱片。”
阿莱娜•雷•麦克唐纳是一位诗人，作家，以及影视自由艺术总监。她居住在爱荷华，布鲁克林和纽约。
Justin Martell is an independent filmmaker and writer. Considered one of the world’s foremost experts on Tiny Tim, he has consulted on and contributed liner notes to two posthumous Tiny Tim releases, I’ve Never Seen A Straight Banana (Collector’s Choice, 2009) and Lost & Found: Volume 1 (Secret Seven Records, 2011). In 2013,he put out a previously unreleased Tiny Tim track on a limited-edition Edison wax cylinder, which Time magazine dubbed the ‘most retro record release ever.’
Alanna Wray McDonald is a poet, writer, and freelance art director for film and television. She resides in Iowa and Brooklyn, New York.
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