Tiny Tim
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
May 9, 1968

01 Intro
02 Living In The Sunlight, Loving In the Moonlight
03 Animal Crackers
04 On The Old Front Porch
05 The Viper
06 Stay Down Here Where You Belong
07 Tweedle Dee
08 Tiptoe Through The Tulips
09 I Got You Babe
10 Earth Angel

sorry, no lineage


Playing the Fillmore to an audience of hippies waiting to see HP Lovecraft should have been a challenge to Tiny Tim but he could win any audience over with his otherwordly and quasi-messianic charms, not to mention his high pitched voice and ukelele.

Speaking of his ukelele it's very prominent on here which is nice - nicer still is the fact he's bothered to tune it! Tiny's backed by The Holy Mackeral who worked with him on his debut album, but without a big orchestra behind him the songs take on a much more stripped-back format. He even acts out "The Viper" live on stage, this time with a bit of ukelele accompaniment.

Other oddities include "Animal Crackers" originally sang by Shirley Temple, and The Penguins' "Earth Angel" - we finally get to hear some Tiny doo-wop falsetto! A very short album (little over twenty minutes) but a document of a great entertainer at the top of his game. Essential for fans.