The T.A.M.I. Show

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name = The T.A.M.I. Show

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director = Steve Binder
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distributor = AIP
released = December 29, 1964
runtime = 123 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
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"The T.A.M.I. Show" is a 1964 concert film, released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. It was shot with TV cameras by director Steve Binder and his crew from "The Steve Allen Show", and was the second of a small handful of productions to be recorded in Electronovision - one of the first high-definition video cameras that captured somewhere between 1000-1100 lines at 25fps. Then it was via kinescope recording converted to film with sufficient enhanced resolution to allow big-screen enlargement.

The concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium over a 2 day period in late October, 1964. Free tickets were distributed to local high school students. Jan and Dean emceed the event and performed its theme song, "Here They Come (From All Over the World)". Jack Nitzsche was the show's music director. The acronym "T.A.M.I." was used inconsistently in the show's publicity to mean both Teenage Awards Music International and Teen Age Music International.

"The T.A.M.I. Show" is particularly well known for James Brown's performance, which features his legendary dance moves and remarkable energy. In [http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/1202 interviews] , Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown & The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him. In a web-published [http://www.nealalpert.com/binder1.html interview] , Binder takes credit for persuading the Stones to follow James Brown, and serve as the centerpiece for the grand finale where all the performers dance together onstage.

There has been never been an authorized home video release of the film in any format, though bootlegs have abounded. Also, because of a rights dispute, the footage of the Beach Boys' performance was deleted from all prints made after the movie's brief initial theatrical run, and is therefore absent from most of the bootlegs. All of the 4 Beach Boys tunes eventually surfaced on the DVD in "Sights and Sounds of Summer", a special CD/DVD edition of "".

A sequel, [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/123991/The-Big-T-N-T-Show/overview "The New York Times": "The Big T.N.T. Show" (1966)] ] 1966's "The Big T.N.T. Show", was produced by the same executive producer, Henry G. Saperstein. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800143588/bio Yahoo! Movies: Henry G. Saperstein] ]

List of performers

* The Barbarians
* The Beach Boys
* Chuck Berry
* James Brown and The Famous Flames
* Marvin Gaye
* Gerry and the Pacemakers
* Lesley Gore
* Jan and Dean
* Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas
* Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
* The Rolling Stones
* The Supremes

The T.A.M.I. Show's Executive Producer was Bill Sargent (H.W. Sargent, Jr). Bill Sargent held numerous patents in cable television and is considered the father of modern pay-per-view. Bill Sargent was also the developer and founder of Electronovision and the associated video tape technologies.

References in popular culture

The Police mention "James Brown on "The T.A.M.I. Show" in their song "When The World Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around".

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has a song called "Lesley Gore On The TAMI Show" from the album Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars

References

External links

* [http://blogs.indiewire.com/stevenrosen/archives/002167.html "The T.A.M.I. Show" Remembered on its 40th Anniversary]