"There was a big delay in cutting my second record. It should have been done in May, around the time that "Tiptoe" was big. But for some reason it wasn't. June and July passed and I was on the road working. By August, when I was at Caesar's Palace, we still hadn't gotten started on the record. One day, in the middle of my Vegas appearance, the trade papers carried a big two-and-a-half page, full color ad for "Tiny Tim's New Album 'Concert in Fairyland'" by Bouquet Records. This was a series of tracks I cut in 1962 as Darry Dover...." "According to what I later heard, some guy - George Goldner - wanted twenty-five thousand dollars from Reprise not to put it out, and Reprise refused. So the guy put it out on his own. Of course the album was awful, complete with overdubbed laughter and the like. In fact, it may be the worst record ever produced. In those days, I'd sometimes sing off-key for spite. And the tapes had been Lord knows where for six years. After the album came out, a composer of one of the cuts threatened to sue me for defamation of his song. We went to court and got an injunction against the sale of the album but it was too late. It had been distributed everywhere, including supermarkets, and before we could do anything about it, one hundred thousand copies had been sold. It hurt my profile. By the time we got around to the legitimate second album, in January '69, no one wanted to buy it." - from Tiny Tim: An Authorized Biography by Harry Stein, 1976.
"There was a big delay in cutting my second record. It should have been done in May, around the time that "Tiptoe" was big. But for some reason it wasn't. June and July passed and I was on the road working. By August, when I was at Caesar's Palace, we still hadn't gotten started on the record. One day, in the middle of my Vegas appearance, the trade papers carried a big two-and-a-half page, full color ad for "Tiny Tim's New Album 'Concert in Fairyland'" by Bouquet Records. This was a series of tracks I cut in 1962 as Darry Dover...."
"According to what I later heard, some guy - George Goldner - wanted twenty-five thousand dollars from Reprise not to put it out, and Reprise refused. So the guy put it out on his own. Of course the album was awful, complete with overdubbed laughter and the like. In fact, it may be the worst record ever produced. In those days, I'd sometimes sing off-key for spite. And the tapes had been Lord knows where for six years. After the album came out, a composer of one of the cuts threatened to sue me for defamation of his song. We went to court and got an injunction against the sale of the album but it was too late. It had been distributed everywhere, including supermarkets, and before we could do anything about it, one hundred thousand copies had been sold. It hurt my profile. By the time we got around to the legitimate second album, in January '69, no one wanted to buy it."
- from Tiny Tim: An Authorized Biography by Harry Stein, 1976.