THE T.A.M.I. SHOW (1964) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Steve Binder
T.A.M.I. stands for Teenage Awards Music International, a clunky acronym if there ever was one. The movie's a series of period rock-&-roll acts performing abbreviated versions of their hits on stage at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1964. Jan & Dean are the hosts and the lineup includes the Beach Boys, Lesley Gore, the Supremes, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, but the show stopper is soulmaster James Brown. Mick Jagger later admitted that the prospect of going on after James Brown terrified him, and you can see why that might be the case. Still, the young Stones pulled it off. A real time-capsule documentary, voted into the National Film Registry in 2006.
