Martin Sharp

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for Cream and also for Ginger Baker’s “Airforce”, a band called Mighty Baby…Jeannie Lewis’ “Free Fall Through Featherless Flight” and a few of my own releases of Tiny Tim, “Chameleon”, “Keeping My Troubles To Myself”, and “The World Non-Stop Singing Record.” “In the basement of The Pheasantry was a club of the same name and often one’s sleep was disturbed by the R&B bass notes…so I was reacting by listening to a lot of old songs that had been re-released. Al Jolson, Al Bowly… the dance bands of the war years and earlier. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and “Hutch” (Leslie Hutchinson). Eric had seen Tiny Tim perform at The Scene in New York City and knowing I loved the old songs he urged me to go and see Tiny in his first London performance at the Royal Albert Hall. I’d never heard Tiny before and I was completely amazed by his extraordinary, joyful persona and his

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