Editing Tiny Tim (musician) (section)

===''God Bless Tiny Tim'' and peak of popularity===
[[File:John Wayne Tiny Tim Laugh In 1971.JPG|thumb|left|[[John Wayne]] and Tiny Tim help celebrate the 100th episode of ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In|Laugh-In]]'', 1971]]
His debut ''[[God Bless Tiny Tim]]'' was released by [[Reprise Records]] in 1968. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was released as a single and reached No. 17 on the [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] chart. ''[[Tiny Tim's 2nd Album]]'' followed in 1968, featuring a portrait of Tiny Tim and his parents on the cover. This was followed by 1969's ''[[For All My Little Friends]]'', a collection of children's songs that received a 1970 [[Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album|Grammy Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite web|website=Grammy.com|title=Tiny Tim|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/tiny-tim/14128|access-date=December 27, 2022}}</ref>  Charting singles from this era included "Bring Back Those Rockabye Baby Days" at No. 95 and "Great Balls of Fire" at No. 85 in 1968 and 1969.<ref name="Whitburn Pop">{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| title = Top Pop Singles 1955-1993| publisher = Record Research| location = [[Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin]] |year = 1994| isbn = 0-89820-104-7}}</ref>

During this era of Tiny's mass popularity, many pundits and journalists debated whether the "character" that Tiny Tim presented was just an orchestrated act or the real thing.<ref name="bio" />

On December 17, 1969, Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' with 40 million people watching.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-item-tiny-tim-weds-on-televisi/149043210/|work=The Daily Item|location=Sunbury, Pennsylvania|date=December 18, 1969|title=Tiny Tim weds on television}}</ref> At the time, this was one of the most watched television events ever.

After his career highlights in the late 1960s, Tiny Tim's television appearances dwindled, and his popularity began to wane. He continued to play concerts, making several lucrative appearances in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]]. In August 1970, he performed "[[There'll Always Be an England]]" to an estimated 600,000 people at the [[Isle of Wight Festival 1970]]. The UK press announced that he had stolen the show "without a single electric instrument".<ref>{{cite news |title=How Tiny Tim blew my mind: The story of an obsession |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/23lXVV4B9rfL2WgFKfLJ6gy/how-tiny-tim-blew-my-mind-the-story-of-an-obsession |access-date=January 6, 2020 |agency=BBC Arts}}</ref>

In 1973, at the beginning of a tour, a driver who suffered a heart attack crashed into Tiny Tim's van, severely injuring Tim and leaving him with a collapsed lung and several broken ribs. Tim would spend four months in the hospital and the lack of funds from Tim's lack of touring resulted in Tim's then manager parting ways with Tim.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tiny Tim |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320630/ |website=E! True Hollywood Story |date=25 March 2001}}</ref>

When his recording contract ended with [[Reprise Records|Reprise]], he founded his own record label and named it Vic Tim Records, as a pun on the combination of his wife's name with that of his own. ''Tiny Tim'', a biography by [[Harry Stein (author)|Harry Stein]], was published in 1976 by Playboy Press.