VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[davemarc]

From: Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent


> "Mucho was one of the very first to audition, but not, he was later to add
> hastily, to call back, fledgling musician Charles Manson. He almost signed
> Wild Man Fischer, and Tiny Tim too, but others got to them first." (309)
>
> It's been Frank Zappa who'd got Wild Man Fischer first.
> http://www.united-mutations.com/w/wild_man_fischer_evening.htm
>
> I'm no Tiny Tim expert so who's got him first?
>
Here's the skinny on Mucho's lost opportunity with Tiny Tim.

"His big break came in August 1967, when Warner Bros. Records impresario Mo
Ostin discovered the tousled apparition trilling away at the Scene, and
offered him a contract.

"Tim was just the act 'Mr. Sinatra's Reprise Records' had been waiting for.
They ushered Tiny, carrying his uke in a brown paper bag, into the
studio...."

--from Irwin Chusid's book Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of
Outsider Music (A Cappella Books, 2000), which includes chapters on Wild Man
Fischer as well as Tiny Tim

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