... Stupefaction ...: Motown

Feb 5, 2014

Lost & Found: Marvin Gaye's 1964 Passport

This is the sort of story you hear maybe once every ten years or so. A Motown Museum employee, who also happens to be a crazy Motown collector, bought a bunch of Motown records for himself. And what fell out of one the LP's? Marvin Gaye's US passport, dated October 16, 1964. Wow... Appearing with the item on a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow, the lucky finder found it appraised at $20,000. Not bad! (via Fact Mag)

Mar 10, 2013

Movie of the Week: The TAMI Show (1964)

They don't get any more legendary than this. From 1964, The T.A.M.I. Show! Standing for Teenage Music International, this one-off musical variety show set the bar very high for everything that followed, and has never quite been matched. Get a load of this line up:

Jan and Dean

(Here They Come) from All Over the World

Chuck Berry

Johnny B. Goode

Maybellene

Gerry & The Pacemakers

Maybellene

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying

It's Gonna Be Alright

Chuck Berry

Sweet Little Sixteen

Gerry & The Pacemakers

How Do You Do It?

Chuck Berry
Nadine

Gerry & The Pacemakers

I Like It

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
That's What Love Is Made Of

You've Really Got a Hold on Me

Mickey's Monkey

Marvin Gaye

Stubborn Kind of Fellow

Pride and Joy

Can I Get a Witness

Hitch Hike

Lesley Gore

Maybe I Know

You Don't Own Me

You Didn't Look Around

Hey Now

It's My Party

Judy's Turn to Cry

Jan and Dean

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Sidewalk Surfin'

The Beach Boys

Surfin' USA

I Get Around

Surfer Girl

Dance, Dance, Dance

Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas

Little Children

Bad to Me

I'll Keep You Satisfied

From a Window

The Supremes

When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

Run, Run, Run

Baby Love

Where Did Our Love Go

The Barbarians

Hey Little Bird

James Brown and The Famous Flames

Out of Sight

Prisoner of Love

Please, Please, Please

Night Train

The Rolling Stones

Around and Around

Off the Hook

Time Is on My Side

It's All Over Now

I'm Alright

Let's Get Together

If that doesn't blow your stack, I really don't know what to tell you...Hat tip to Cirkus Berserkus for pointing this out. Buy the TAMI Show on DVD here.