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August 12, 2013
My new favorite radio show is on WMSE, 91.7 fm, at 11am on Monday mornings. It's called the Wild, Wild, Midwest Variety Show. It's a fun 1 hour show that opens up with Tiny Tim's "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" song!
That song takes me back to January of 1975 when Tiny Tim came to Humpin Hanna's in Milwaukee for a show.
Humpin Hanna's that night was a full house of people wanting to see this very interesting character and musician. With his ukulele and tulip themed suit he entertained us all. He even brought a few dancers with him and his band for this little nightclub show!
With his high falsetto voice and ukulele you didn't know if he was a serious musician or just a fun comedy act! Turns out he was a very serious musician and it was a fun show that every one would remember!
Tiny Tim was actually very tall and learned to play the ukulele with a method book that came with an Arthur Godfrey endorsed plastic ukulele! He was a huge fan of Arthur Godfrey I have learned!
We all remember his appearances on the Johnny Carson show where he actually married Miss Vicky on December 17, 1969. He was also on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In many times.
His real name was Herbert Khaury and he passed away in 1996 after 2 more marriages and a bunch of record albums. He even had his own record label for a while, Vic Tim Records!
Have a great week and Tip Toe Through the Tulips if you can!!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 5, 2013
This week we all heard that Alex Tagliani is no longer driving an Indy car. Bryan Herta's team switched drivers and Tag is out.
Too bad, because Tag is a great driver. He is always happy and talks good about the sport. He talks to everyone he can in the paddock it seems. A lot of other drivers don't do as much as Tag does to promote the sport.
He has only won one race in his Indy car career. That was at Elkhart Lake in 2004 in a Champ Car, but I have always thought he had another victory in him.
He will be missed by a lot of fans.
Photographs today are from this year at the Milwaukee Mile and one from 2011.
Time for me to go watch the race at Mid Ohio now. Unfortunately, without Tag.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 29, 2013
Before I begin, let me thank Andreas Wiegel in Vienna, Austria, for letting me know that Roger Sutton was the bass player and Tommy Eyre played keyboards for the Mark Almond band. In my blog #68 on the Mark Almond Band, I was not sure from my research and asked for some information on that. Very cool to see that I reach out to Vienna, Austria and Andreas!!
This week's blog looks back at Elvin Bishop and his band that came to Summerfest here in Milwaukee in 1979. This was an awesome show and had a guy named Mickey Thomas playing Saxophone and doing great vocals. Mickey Thomas then went on to Jefferson Starship and nearly became a household name. He has such a great voice. I forgot that he played saxophone until I looked back at these photographs!
Elvin Bishop is coming back to Milwaukee for the Harley Davidson Anniversary concerts at the Summerfest grounds on August 29th! I am looking forward to the show because I haven't seen him since 1979 when he was sleeping in the dressing room! The band that night was worn out because they had just come from Hawaii I believe!
Have a great week and enjoy the photographs. The first photograph is a copy of a press kit Elvin had back then.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
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