Oh Tiny, i love you - fanzine/minicomic bought from Jaclyn Miller the other day. Highly recommended.
Worth buying for the envelope alone.
Front cover
All images – ukulele porn, (kind permission from Jaclyn Miller)
Yowl-a-lele, a ukulele for cat lovers by Bob Armstrong
Robert Armstrong, cartoonist, Illustrator, original member of The cheap suit serenaders with Robert Crumb and also creator of the yowl-a-lele.
Image : Robert Armstrong
Tiny Tim commerative Ukulele
Image: Robert Armstrong
Somebody’s scanned in one of his comics from the eighties : Mickey Rat
Tiny Tim and Martin Sharp – Street of Dreams
Incrediably, I never knew Martin Sharp, Australian pop artist, art director of Oz magazine, and general seminal sixties counter culture chap, was obsessed with Tiny Tim. Sharp created artwork for concerts and albums, produced some of his records, and even made a film called Street of Dreams about his twin loves, Tiny Tim and Luna Park. Street of Dreams looks amazing and I’ve included some clips I found on youtube. It’s supposedly an obscure and strange film about Tiny Tim trying to break a non-stop singing record. I only hope that one day I’ll be able to see the whole thing.
Some Martin Sharp posters
Here’s a poster I featured on ukulele porn a while ago that I just randomly spotted in a framers. Only now do I realise it was a Martin Sharp.
Excitingly, Blue Pye are to re-release a heap of Tiny Tim records with the help of Martin Sharp and with the added bonus of Martin Sharp artwork and essays.
Finally, here’s the Street of Dreams clips:
Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim was an iconoclast in a time when iconoclasts were two a penny. In the 60s he had a huge number 1 hit with Tiptoe Through the Tulips, he played with The Band, knew Dylan and hung out with the Beatles. Though his popularity suffered after the sixties he’s always maintained a strong cult following and his albums are certainly worth a listen.
Here’s an excellent cover of Nowhere Man from the Beatles 1968 Christmas record.
I think though, for all his achievements, appearing as a musical guest in the first episode, Help Wanted, of SpongeBob SquarePants, tops the lot.
Happy birthday Bob Dylan
As Bob is the big 70 today I thought a post would be in order. Here’s some covers.
All I really wanna do:
Great version of Maggie’s farm:
Tiny Tim, who knew Dylan, doing a Dylan parody.
And finally, I felt there needed to be one of Bob so here’s Tangled Up In Blue.
