Track Listing

1. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
3. That's What I Want for Christmas
4. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
5. White Christmas
6. Christmas Song
7. O Holy Night
8. Silent Night
9. O Come All Ye Faithful Medley: O Come All Ye Faithful/Hark the Herald
10. Rainbow on the River
11. Mission Bell
12. What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94923 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Herbert Khaury, a.k.a. Tiny Tim, was by all accounts a lonely, romantic child who spent much of his youth trying to escape into a fantasy land of old 78 rpm records. He learned how to play the ukulele in 1954 from an Arthur Godfrey songbook and began toting his instrument to a series of musical auditions, using a paper sack as his instrument case. One audition in 1967 got him on TV's Laugh-In, and he had a meteoric rise and matching fall by the early '70s. He never gave up, though, and tried recording a handful of albums in hopes of a comeback. Recorded in Sydney, Australia, back in 1993, this CD features Tiny Tim performing a dozen Christmas tunes, including "Silent Night" and "O Come All Ye Faithful." An overproduced and mediocre rock band largely covers up his vocals and ukulele playing. Tim's strength was always his love and appreciation of old 1920s pop tunes, none of which are present here. He had an admittedly loony approach to his performances, but often his sincerity and connection to his material gave the tunes a charm and strength not present on this Christmas assortment. If you're looking for a silly Christmas novelty album, this might work--for the right occasion and with enough eggnog. If not, try some of his better efforts, such as Girl, on which he's backed up by Brave Combo. --Terry Zwigoff

Customer Reviews

The kiddies will love this one.
Tiny Tim was a National Treasure. God bless his soul. And this cd proves it! He's at his best when signing falsetto and when he's not, he sounds like Cher, except better. I've never heard a better cover of "The Christmas Song" followed by the sacred "Holy Night. And how could you go wrong with a 13 second cover of a Shirley Temple Christmas song from the film "Stowaway"? Huh? Yeah, yeah, you get his usual preachy sermons in some cuts and at the end of the cd he goes off in a tangent that even I couldn't figure out. This is one of my top 10 Christmas cds that's right between Phil Spector's "Christmas Gift For you" and Bach's " Weinachtsoratorium". Don't pass this one by.

Holiday Songs like Never Before
I can't say enough about this collection. The production, music, vocals, etc. are top notch. Mission Bell at high volume will give you goose bumps. This CD includes the very best version of Silent Night ever recorded. There is so much passion and purity in it. All the old crooners would agree. Tiny Rules!

Heartfelt and wonderful
To work, a Christmas album needs to be sincere. This one from Tiny Tim delivers. A wonderful, heartfelt, melodic seasonal album to lift the spirits. True, to some Tiny Tim is an acquired taste, but for Christmas music he is right on the mark. God bless Tiny Tim.