T.A.M.I. Show

The best footage from the two concert dates was combined into the film, which was released on December 29, 1964. Jan and Dean emceed the event and performed its theme song, "Here They Come (From All Over the World)", written by Los Angeles songwriters P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, the song erroneously asserting that the Rolling Stones are from Liverpool. Jack Nitzsche was the show's music director. The film was shot by director Steve Binder and his crew from The Steve Allen Show, using a precursor to high-definition television, called "Electronovision", invented by the self-taught "electronics whiz" Bill Sargent (H.W. Sargent Jr). The film was the second of a small number of productions that used the system. By using the 25 frames per second 819-line video standard (in use in France for television broadcasting at the time), the video could be converted to film by kinescope recording with sufficiently enhanced resolution to allow big-screen enlargement. It is considered one of the seminal events in the pioneering of music films, and more importantly, the later concept of music video. T.A.M.I. Show is particularly well known for the performance of James Brown and the Famous Flames, which features his legendary dance moves and explosive energy. In interviews, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown and the Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett, and Lloyd Stallworth) was the worst mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him. In a web-published interview, Binder takes credit for persuading the Stones to follow Brown, and serve as the centerpiece for the grand finale in which all the performers dance together onstage. Dick Clark Productions later acquired ownership of the concert from Sargent. ==List of performers==

Performers (in order of appearance) ;Chuck Berry ;Gerry and the Pacemakers:: * Gerry Marsden - vocals, guitar * Les Maguire - piano * Les Chadwick - bass * Freddie Marsden - drums, backing vocals ;The Miracles:: * Smokey Robinson - lead vocals * Bobby Rogers - tenor vocals * Ronnie White - baritone vocals * Pete Moore - bass vocals * Marv Tarplin - guitar ;Marvin Gaye (and The Blossoms):: * Marvin Gaye - vocals * Fanita James - backing vocals * Darlene Love - backing vocals * Jean King - backing vocals ;Lesley Gore ;Jan and Dean:: * Jan Berry - vocals * Dean Torrence - vocals ;The Beach Boys:: * Brian Wilson - bass, vocals * Mike Love - vocals * Al Jardine - guitar, vocals * Carl Wilson - guitar, vocals * Dennis Wilson - drums ;Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas:: * Billy J. Kramer - vocals * Mike Maxfield - guitar * Mick Green - guitar * Robin MacDonald - bass * Tony Mansfield - drums ;The Supremes:: * Diana Ross - Lead vocals * Florence Ballard - backing vocals * Mary Wilson - backing vocals ;The Barbarians: * Jerry Causi - bass, vocals * Ronnie Enos - guitar, vocals * Bruce Benson - guitar * Victor "Moulty" Moulton - drums ;James Brown and the Famous Flames: *James Brown - vocals *Bobby Byrd - vocals *Lloyd Stallworth - vocals *Bobby Bennett - vocals ;The Rolling Stones: * Mick Jagger - vocals, maracas * Keith Richards - guitar, vocals * Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals * Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals * Charlie Watts - drums == Set list ==

In order of appearance in the film: ==Home media==

During the VHS era, there was never an authorized home video release of T.A.M.I. Show in its full, original cut, although bootlegs abounded. Most of the bootlegs were missing the Beach Boys' performance. The Beach Boys had been deleted from all prints made after the movie's initial theatrical run because of a copyright dispute by the request of someone in their management. Selected numbers from the T.A.M.I. Show were edited together with performances from another concert film by the same producers, The Big T.N.T. Show, to create a hybrid work called That Was Rock. This film did receive a home video release from Media Home Entertainment's music division, Music Media, in 1984. It was felt that the film was unlikely to be released due to the cost of obtaining the publishing and performance rights to the extensive lineup of artists. (All of the four Beach Boys songs from the show eventually surfaced on DVD in Sights and Sounds of Summer, a special CD/DVD edition of Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys.) On March 23, 2010, Shout! Factory released T.A.M.I. Show on a restored, digitally remastered and fully authorized DVD, with all performances, including the Beach Boys, included. (A DVD release of the complete film by First Look Studios had been planned for 2007, but subsequently withdrawn.) On December 2, 2016, T.A.M.I. Show was released in Blu-ray as a combo package with The Big T.N.T. Show by Shout! Factory. Both features are presented in 1080p resolution, 1.78:1 aspect ratio and DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo. The film was shown in its entirety in Canada on First Choice Network in 1984, the 20th anniversary of its release. ==Legacy==

Experimental filmmaker Wallace Berman, a friend of choreographer Toni Basil, refilmed a screening of T.A.M.I. Show using an 8 mm camera. He used close-ups of Mick Jagger and Teri Garr in his 1966 collage film Aleph. In 2006, T.A.M.I. Show was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. ==References==