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Fact #76675

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Live and nationwide on US tv's Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ukulele-strummer Tiny Tim [40] marries his beloved Miss Vicky Budinger [18]. The show attracts 45 million viewers, and is only beaten in the year's tv ratings by the Moon Landing.

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Lester Chambers (singer, The Chambers Brothers) Tiny Tim was the resident musician, at Steve Paul's The Scene Club in New York. He would be there every night, opening for Jimi Hendrix or Johnny Winter to The Doors or whoever it might be.

Tiny Tim was a great man, a great guy. I can still see him, now, on the stage, with people throwing everything from the kitchen at him, some of it hitting him, but instead of getting mad, he'd pick it up and cherish it, going, "Oh, thank you! Thank you so very much. You're so beautiful." Every night he wound up with a bag of groceries to take home.

That was a stage act but it was also, incredibly, who he was. He lived that life. If you met him in the street, he'd bow, and politely ask how you were. "You're so beautiful. Oh, bless you." He was like that all the time.

Then this gorgeous lady, Miss Vicky, fell in love in love with him and they got married.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Classic Rock, February 2014)