{"id":18373,"date":"2026-02-06T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18373"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:05:24","slug":"the-tami-show-1964-steve-binder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18373","title":{"rendered":"The TAMI Show (1964, Steve Binder)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock performance show\/film from the first wave of the British invasion.  Killer opening title sequence, with a montage of artists heading to the show with a Beach Boys song about these same artists heading to the show.  Chuck Berry opens with an invisible backing band, then Gerry and the Pacemakers takes over from Chuck mid-song to the delight of the crowd even though they are 10% as cool.  Audience gets screamy so the sound mix isn&#8217;t great, but the crowd calms down whenever someone non-white is onstage.  Some of the best music acts at the peak of their powers (and also Jimmy D Whoever, who&#8217;s a drag) play a handful of songs each, hosted by cheeseballs Jan &#038; Dean.  The prizes for dancing, vocal performance and stage presence all go to James Brown &#8211; a shame that pretty-decent dancer Mick Jagger has to follow him.  Dave Kehr raves: &#8220;Shot on videotape and transferred to film, this was the first full-scale rockumentary, and it&#8217;s still a model of the genre, well paced and mostly in focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mick vs. the Santa Monica crowd:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/tami.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock performance show\/film from the first wave of the British invasion. Killer opening title sequence, with a montage of artists heading to the show with a Beach Boys song about these same artists heading to the show. Chuck Berry opens with an invisible backing band, then Gerry and the Pacemakers takes over from Chuck mid-song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,1599,2073],"class_list":["post-18373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-concert","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18404,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18373\/revisions\/18404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}