Stephen Stills

As a member of the Stills-Young Band. However, while playing "Tiptoe Thru the Tulips" at a concert in Minneapolis in November of that year, he suffered a further heart attack, and died. As a member of Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and Young). In September 1996, he suffered a heart attack, but continued to play concerts when he was released from hospital. As a member of the Buffalo Springfield. He also worked with a number of other artists, including Brave Combo (who were his backing band for Girl) and was championed by, and collaborated with, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound. As a member of the Au Go Go Singers. He began to release records again, including I Love Me (1995) and Girl (1996), as well as appearing frequently on the Howard Stern Radio Show and Stern's movie, "Private Parts" (1997) and occasional appearances on other TV programs.

Solo. In the 1990s, interest in Tiny Tim seemed to pick up a little. In 2000, Stills was an Al Gore delegate from Florida during the Democratic National Convention. He briefly lived in Australia, then moved to Des Moines, Iowa before marrying for the third time (his second marriage had lasted for just one month) and moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota. CSNY has long been associated with liberal causes. He continued to play around the United States, and got several lucrative gigs in Las Vegas before things got so bad that in 1985, he resorted to joining a circus for eight months. In 1997, Stills became the first person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice in the same night for his work with CSN and the Buffalo Springfield. After that, however, the television appearances dried up, and he became rather more obscure.

This has led to the semi-permanent CSN reunion even though all three have released solo records since then. Also in 1969, he married Victoria May Budinger ("Miss Vicki") on the Johnny Carson show, a publicity stunt which attracted 40 million viewers (the two divorced eight years later). Stills was contractually obligated to finish the tour, but he did reunite with Crosby and Nash shortly afterwards. The following year, he recorded and released two more albums, Tiny Tim's Second Album, and For All My Little Friends, a collection of children's songs. However, Young would leave midway through the resulting tour. Another notable track was a cover of "Stay Down Here where You Belong," written by Irving Berlin in 1914 to protest the Great War. At one point, Long May You Run was supposed to be a CSNY record, but when Crosby and Nash left to fufill recording and touring obligations, Stills and Young decided to go on as the Stills-Young Band. "On the Old Front Porch" extends this to a trio, including a boy, the girl he is courting, and her father.

Then he switched to Columbia Records before an attempted reunion with Young. On one track, a version of "I Got You Babe", he sang a duet with himself, taking one part in falsetto, and the other in the baritone range. The next year, Stills teamed up with ex-Byrd Chris Hillman and several CSNY sidemen to form the band Manassas. The other songs displayed his wide-ranging knowledge of the American songbook, and also allowed him to demonstrate his baritone voice, which was less often heard than his falsetto. It provided Stills with the hit single "Love The One You're With" as well as the concert favorite "Black Queen." Stills followed this with Stephen Stills 2, which featured "Change Partners", a metaphor for the many relationships in CSNY. It contained a version of what was his signature song, "Tiptoe Thru The Tulips", which was a hit when released as a single. Stephen Stills featured guests Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Ringo Starr as well as contributions from other members of CSNY. In 1968, his first album, God Bless Tiny Tim, was recorded.

In the wake of CSNY's success, all four members recorded solo albums. As well as his extraordinarily high falsetto voice, his appearance - long curly hair, large nose, six foot one in height and clutching his relatively tiny ukulele - helped him in standing out from the crowd. Despite several breakups and reformations, CSN (and sometimes CSNY) still records and tours to this day. Appearances on the shows of Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason followed, and he made a name for himself as a novelty performer. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, CSN and CSNY was one of the few North American groups to rival the Beatles in popularity. This led to a booking on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, which turned out to be his big break. Neil Young would be added for their second album, and the group would become Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Tiny Tim already had something of a cult following around New York when he appeared in the film You Are What You Eat.

During the disintegration of the Buffalo Springfield, Stills would join up with ex-Byrd David Crosby and ex-Hollie Graham Nash to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. He used a number of pseudonyms, but eventually settled on naming himself Tiny Tim, after the character from Dickens' A Christmas Carol (see above). Soon Stills' playing would show the influence of his friend Jimi Hendrix and also sometimes the rhythms and riffs of various kinds of Latin music. Legend has it that he first sang in a lesbian cabaret bar; whatever the truth of this, he certainly went on to sing in a very wide variety of clubs and bars, as well as entering a large number of talent competitions in an attempt to be discovered. Early on, it would display sources in generic rock'n'roll, blues, and country music, as well as the chordings familiar in the acoustic-folk music scene. He was born in New York City, the son of a Lebanese father and Jewish mother. Stills' guitar playing continually evolved. Tiny Tim's year of birth is unclear - he lied about his age on a number of occasions, and various sources give 1933, 1932, 1930, 1926, 1923, or 1922, although shortly before his death he said he was 64 years old, which would put his year of birth at 1932. According to www.tinytim.org, and photos taken of his passport and birth certificate, Tiny was born on April 12, 1932.

The band would release three albums (Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again, and Last Time Around) and one hit single (Stills' "For What It's Worth") before breaking up. He was sometimes deridingly referred to as the master of the disturbing. Years later, Stills, Furay, and Young would meet up in Los Angeles and form the core of the Buffalo Springfield. He is generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs and genuine musical talent. Main articles: Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young). He is most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" sung in his distinctive high falsetto. On the VH1 CSNY Legends special, Stills would say that at that time, Young was doing what he always wanted to do, "play folk music in a rock band." The Au Go Go Singers would break up shortly afterwards. Herbert Khaury (April 12, probably 1923 or 1932 - November 30, 1996), better known by the pseudonym Tiny Tim, was an American singer and ukulele player.

This group would release one album and embark on a tour of Canada where Stills and Furay would meet a young guitarist named Neil Young. Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips from his 1968 album, God Bless Tiny Tim (ogg format, 16 seconds, 84KB). Stills eventually ended up in a nine member vocal harmony group called the Au Go Go Singers where he met Richie Furay. He was in a series of unsuccessful bands including the Continentals, which featured future Eagles guitarist Don Felder. Stills dropped out of the University of Florida to pursue a music career in the early 1960s.

He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his teenage years in Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated high school. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. Stills was born in Dallas, Texas on January 3, 1945 to a military family. Stephen Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with the Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (at first it was Crosby, Stills and Nash; Young joined the group after their first album).

Long May You Run, 1975. Looking Forward, 1999. Carry On, 1998. After The Storm, 1994.

CSN (box set), 1991. Live It Up, 1990. American Drean, 1988. Allies, 1983.

Daylight Again, 1982. Replay, 1980. CSN, 1977. So Far, 1974.

Four Way Street, 1971. Deja Vu, 1970. Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 1969. Box Set, 2001.

Best of the Buffalo Springfield, 1969. Last Time Around, 1968. Buffalo Springfield Again, 1967. Buffalo Springfield, 1967.

Au Go Go Singers, 1964. Turning Back The Pages, 2003. Stills Alone, 1991. Right By You, 1984.

Thoroughfare Gap, 1978. Illegal Stills, 1976. Still Stills: The Best of Stephen Stills, 1976. Stills, 1975.

Stills Live, 1975. Down The Road, 1973. Manassas, 1972. Stephen Stills 2, 1971.

Stephen Stills, 1970. Super Sessions (with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield), 1968.