Just received a email notice from The Video Beat website concerning their current Xmas sale.
One of the items listed is the 1964 T.A.M.I. (Teenage Awards Music International or Teen Age Music International) Show.

I did a post on this in the past focusing on James Brown's performance but I can't find the link to it.
So i'll respost what i'd written in the past with a few corrections and additions.

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James Brown's performance set in the first rock concert movie "The T.A.M.I. Show" has to be a consideration.
(Out Of Sight, Prisoner Of Love, Please Please Please, Night Train)


The T.A.M.I. Show - (Teen-Age Music International Show)
http://www.thevideobeat.c...ow_dvd.htm
Link no longer accurate - tA

But don't take my word for it...

Legends are made of this! The TAMI Show is a legendary contribution to the early madness that was the British Invasion and the legendary Soul movement led by James Brown and the Motown stars The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. James Brown's upstaging of the Rolling Stones in this film is the stuff of legends (indeed, no man could take him off that stage alive), not to mention Marvin Gaye bringing down the house.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mop...rrent.html
Link no longer accurate - tA

In 1965, during THE T.A.M.I. SHOW in Santa Monica, James Brown performed before the Rolling Stones. Of their respective performances, music historian Nelson George, observed:"Mick Jagger jiggled across the stage doing his lame funky chicken after James Brown's incredible camel-walking, proto-moon-walking, athletically daring performance."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/a...own_j.html

Closing the show is a veritable "Battle of the Bands" between two of the most exciting stage acts in rock history, James Brown and his Famous Flames (Brown's dancing still inspires awe nearly 40 years later), and The Rolling Stones (who look young and green, but are already blessed with a near-deadly charisma). Regarded by many aficionados as one of the very best rock and roll movies ever made (despite a video transfer that's not quite up contemporary technical standards)...
http://movies2.nytimes.co...v_id=48291

Such eminence allowed Brown a new manoeuvrability. Dissatisfied with his record label King, he ignored contractual niceties and signed with Smash Records. By the time his former outlet had secured an injunction, 'Out Of Sight' had become another national hit. More importantly, however, the single marked the beginning of a leaner, tighter sound that would ultimately discard accepted western notions of harmony and structure. This innovative mid-60s period is captured on film in his electrifying performance on the TAMI Show.
http://members.tripod.com...Brown.html

In fact, his now famous performance at the TAMI Show was enough to make the act on after him--the Rolling Stones--shake in their boots.
http://www.eonline.com/Ce...tar/Brown/
Link no longer accurate - tA

But the real reason to watch T.A.M.I. is the show-stopping James Brown. Accompanied by the Famous Flames, Brown gives a performance that proves once and for all he was the greatest showman in the history of modern music. And in what may be the biggest faux pas in rock history, the Rolling Stones attempt to follow Brown's performance. For all their dynamic presence, in Brown's make the Stones look like pathetic wannabes. Guitarist Keith Richards has said that the biggest mistake of their career was following James Brown at the concert.
http://www.wweek.com/stor...story=3137

A film of the event, known as The T.A.M.I. Show, became a teen sensation in worldwide movie theaters with Mr. Brown, by all accounts, stealing the film and permanently cementing his nickname as "the hardest working man in show business."
http://augustachronicle.c...odes.shtml

“The T.A.M.I. Show” was filmed at the 1964 Teenage Awards Music International and features vintage footage of the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry and more. The highlight is the obvious nervousness of the young Rolling Stones when they realize they have to go on after James Brown’s showstopping performance.
http://www.portlandtribun...i?id=13801


7.James Brown. His slot in 1964 concert film The TAMI Show "may be the single greatest rock 'n' roll performance ever captured on film." (American Records' Rick Rubin)
http://www.usatoday.com/l...tals_x.htm

This performance has even been imortalized in song:
Turn on my V.C.R.
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show
Same tape I've had for years
When The World Is Running Down - The Police


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T.A.M.I. SHOW; (1964). Excellent import DVD featuring the complete show of The TAMI Show including the long lost Beach Boys 4-song segment. Also included on this disc is the very rare original theatrical trailer. Recorded live in 1964 in Santa Monica, Ca. in Electronovision. JAN & DEAN enter on skateboards, host, and sing (2) songs (The Little Old Lady From Pasadena & Sidewalk Surfin'), CHUCK BERRY (Johnny B Goode, Maybelline, Sweet Little Sixteen, Nadine), GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS (Maybelline, Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, Its Gonna Be Alright, How do You Do It, I Like It), SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES (That's What Love Is Made Of, You Really Got A Hold On Me, Mickey's Monkey), MARVIN GAYE AND THE BLOSSOMS (Stubborn Kind Of Fellow, Pride and Joy, Can I Get A Witness, Hitch Hike), BILLY J. KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS (Little Children, Bad To Me, I'll Keep You Satisfied, From A Window), LESLEY GORE (Maybe I Know, You Don't Own Me, You Didn't Look 'Round, Hey Now, It's My Party, Judy's Turn To Cry), THE BEACH BOYS (I Get Around, Dance Dance Dance, Surfer Girl, Surfin' USA), DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES (When The Love Lite Starts Shining Through his eyes, Run Run Run, Baby Love, Where Did Our Love Go), THE BARBARIANS (Hey Little Bird), JAMES BROWN AND THE FLAMES (Out Of Sight, Prisoner Of Love, Please Please Please, Night Train), ROLLING STONES (Around and Around, Off The Hook, Time Is On My Side, It's All Over Now, I'm Alright-Get Together)

PRICE = $24.99

http://www.directcdstore....age43.html

*** The DVD is no longer available from this location - tA

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Additional comments...

The penultimate act was Brown, who mesmerized the crowd with his raw screams and agile footwork.

"I tell you, it's a masterpiece and the beginning of my career in one way," Brown recalled of the TAMI Show during a recent telephone interview. "It was great for me. I'd been getting that kind of response for a long time, but white people didn't get a chance to see me because they didn't go to the venues I was playing at." (Getting Top 40 airplay with "Out of Sight" at the time, Brown didn't become a true rock star until months later, thanks to "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag.")

Following Brown were the still-new Stones ? coming off an "Ed Sullivan Show" appearance and enjoying their first major U.S. hit, "Time Is On My Side." This crowd-pleasing performance has become legendary because of reports that the Stones were frightened to follow Brown.

In "Old Gods Almost Dead," Stephen Davis writes that Gaye had to tell the Stones, "Just go out there and do your thing." Steve Binder, the director of TAMI, can still remember Brown's reaction when told that the Stones would be the final act.

"He said, 'Nobody could follow me,' " Binder says.

http://blogs.indiewire.co...02167.html
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In 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.

http://www.nationmaster.c..._TAMI_Show

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The Video Beat is selling it for approximately $23.
CDUniverse currently has it in "Pre-Order" status for $10.20.




...Night Train - (T.A.M.I. Show)


A very nice Xmas gift for someone that's interested in an historic music show.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

JB owns all.

The sad thing about this, well I shouldn't say sad, is they were the first to ever put a camera on James Brown and the Famous Flames. What took them so long.

Between February 1956 and October 1964, there had never been any footage of James Brown. But once T.A.M.I hit, he was never off the tube again ...

Marvin Gaye and James Brown were indeed the biggest highlights of the show.