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The thing with Tiny Tim is that, on some level at least, he sincerely loved the popular music of the twenties and thirties -- and was trying, in his own way, to bring it to the attention of a new generation. If you listen to Nick Lucas -- who is the guitar-playing fellow in that film clip -- and then listen to Tiny, you can see that there's a bit of homage going on that goes beyond mere willful campiness.
All kidding aside, you have an extremely good point. Tiny was in fact a big fan of that era. Some have referred to him as a Musicologist in the sense that he liked that era of music and wanted to bring it to the attention of the era he was in.
I kind of respect him in that sense. The amount of ridicule he was forced to endure in order to do so was pretty fierce.