To an ominous, minor-key arrangement in 3/ 4 time, Gore began to sing: “You don’t own me/ I’m not just one of your many toys.” When the song abruptly shifted to an exultant major key- “don’t tell me what to do/ don’t tell me what to say”- she lifted her gaze to the ceiling and permitted herself a satisfied smile. Then she removed the microphone from its stand and strode to the lip of the stage, where the central camera captured her close-up in a gauzy filter. Introduced by show hosts Jan and Dean, who wore matching sweatshirts stamped with her surname, the prim young lady in heels and a wool skirt stepped to the microphone in front of the house band- the redoubtable session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew- and began her brief set with her latest hit single, “Maybe I Know.” The bouncy song admitted the singer’s suspicion that her boyfriend has been unfaithful, “but what can I do?” “She was the biggest name on the bill,” director Steve Binder would recall. The biggest star on American radio at the time was a young singer - still a teenager herself - with a Jackie Kennedy–style coiffure and a bedroom in her parents’ suburban home in Tenafly, New Jersey. Show mythology has it, left Stones singer Mick Jagger dumbstruck with awe.Īt the time, however, there was one name on the program that eclipsed all the others. Most famously, a young British group called the Rolling Stones were scheduled to take the stage after the soul singer James Brown, who established his crossover appeal to white audiences with an astonishing performance that, as the T.A.M.I. The show, filmed shortly after the contentious passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, featured an integrated bill, with almost as many black acts as white.
Seven of the show’s dozen acts, including Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, and the Beach Boys, would be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Show nevertheless inspired an outsize legend. Though the film was officially out of print for decades, the T.A.M.I. At the time - 1964, still televised largely in black and white - the concept was revolutionary.
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A live color edit from four camera angles would be transferred to 35mm film, then presented as a concert event on movie screens across the country. Using a new high-resolution camera system called Electronovision, the producers would film some of the most recognizable pop stars of the moment. Show would set the bar for rock ’n’ roll spectacles to come. While those plans never materialized, the one-time concert event known as the T.A.M.I.
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