Page 8 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1977
Films used
as source
of research
Thinking about using the movie
“Gone with the Wind” for research
into the wartime South? Or those
Nazi propaganda films for a look into
1930s Germany?
Dr. John Lenihan, assistant pro
fessor of history at Texas A&M Uni
versity, may be able to lend some ,
tips. He will present a History De
partment colloquium Thursday on
“Film as a Source for Historical Re
search.”
The program is at 4 p.m. in Room
201 of Harrington Education Center
Annex.
Tiny Tim hits
the open trail
for Opryland
United Press International
NASHVILLE—Tiny Tim fancies
himself a musical athlete, knocking
out hits in a quavering voice unique
to country singing.
The flabby singer who trilled “Tip
toe Through the Tulips” and married
“Miss Vicky” before millions in 1968
on a late night talk show is working
now on an album of country songs.
“I’m Gonna Be a Country Queen’
is one tune Tiny Tim and his backers
hope will shove him back before the
public eye. “I Ain’t No Cowboy, I
Just Found This Hat” is another.
As the last title suggests, Tiny Tim
has not abandoned his long, frizzy
hair and flowing cape for the garb
country music fans prefer.
“No,” he said. “I’m the same man I
always was. I’m nothing but a
songplugger. I don’t know why
people think this is such an about-
face. I’ve always practiced country
songs in front of my mirror. ”
Tiny Tim is annoyed that reporters
do not realize the range of his art.
“None of these things are new to
me,” he says petulantly. “My show
often includes Have You Seen My
Little Sue’ and if that’s not country, I
don’t know what is.”
Tiny Tim says he has been a coun
try music fan since 1947, but that
longstanding loyalty is not what
prompted the new album.
“I just love to record—whether
rock n’ roll or country. I’d like to
record some Japanese songs, I’m
Very fond of that muSie. I’m like a
baseball pitcher who will use a
screwball, changeup or fastball,
whatever it takes. I go for a catch
melody that will be a hit. I don’t sing
throwaways.”
Nevertheless, Tiny Tim worried
that “people would take it the wrong
way” when he sang of a struggling
ingenue who preens before her mir
ror in a wig and declares “I look just
like Miss Dolly Parton.”
“I did wonder,” Tiny Tim recalls.
But producers, managers and agents
quieted his fears.
No matter what new songs he
sings, the man whose mother named
him Herbert says fans will always
clamor for “Tiptoe Through the
Tulips.”
“I can do a million songs but all
they want is Tiptoe, they yell for it
at every concert,” he says. “I don’t
mind, I never get tired of the hand
that feeds you.”
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