# How many young people have ever heard Tiny Tim singing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips"?

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**Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-young-people-have-ever-heard-tiny-tim-singing-tiptoe-through-the-tulips/301242/17 "2005-04-26T23:59:20Z")

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> [@want2know](#):
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> I’m 48, and I saw his very first appearance on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in.

Me, too, and me, too.

I also know where he got it: a few years ago I was watching a 1930s movie with Billie Burke (you remember, Glinda from _The Wizard of Oz_? Keep that voice in mind). Billie sat down at a piano and started trilling, “_ooooh_, tip-toe by the window, by the window, that is where _I’ll_ be . . .”

Light bulb goes on over head–that’s where he got it! He was doing a Billie Burke imitation!

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