Rolling Stone ‘Tiny Tim: King for a Day’ Gives the 1960s Musical Eccentric the Royal Treatment A look back at the falsetto-voiced singer who turned ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ into an Age of Aquarius hit By NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images No matter the topic, the finest docs make you realize how much we needed a film on a particular subject. And that rule couldn’t apply more to Tiny Tim: King for a Day, director Johan von Sydow’s overview of the otherworldly life and times of one of the most WTF pop celebrities of the last century. (It hits theaters on April 30th.)