HITSVILLE U.S.A.! Documentary film that focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
The film tracks the unique system that Gordy assembled that enabled Motown to become the most successful record label of all time.
The creation and initial success of Motown was achieved during a period of significant racial tensions in America and amid the burgeoning civil rights movement.
(SHOWTIME Channel; You Tube)
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Note: Uploaded for a free view and for a limited time, as of March 21, 2021, the Showtime documentary ‘Hitsville: The Making of Motown’, has been removed from the official SHOWTIME You Tube Channel.
In its replacement (March 21, 2012), we will now feature the official SHOWTIME trailer for the documentary.
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Note: We are happy to inform you again the complete documentary ‘Hitsville: The Making of Motown’ is back up on the You Tube SHOWTIME Channel as of Thursday, February 17 2022, therefore, as featured here previously, we now have it back up on this site once again for your view here as well. 🙂
The Dick Clark Beech-Nut Show debuts on ABC-TV, February 15, 1958
The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show was Dick Clark’s second attempt at a prime time show. His first, a prime-time version of American Bandstand, ran only 13 weeks.The Beechnut Show was much more successful lasting almost 3 years.
The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show was broadcast live, on ABC-TV, Saturday nights from the Little Theatre in New York City. Every weekend, Dick Clark commuted from Philadelphia to NYC to do the “Beechnut” show.
There was actually two shows done each Saturday. The first was a rehearsal show where the artists could sketch out their performances and Clark could line everything up. This would have a different audience then the second show which was the one that was televised.
Beechnut Gum was actually picked up as a sponsor for the third episode to the conclusion of the show’s run. The artists that appeared usually “lip-synched” to their records. Very few actually performed live.
This is the only show to be able to make the claim of having Buddy Holly,Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper as guests (though on different episodes). All three were killed together in a plane crash on February 3, 1959.
Amazingly, Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson, two of the biggest stars of the period, never appeared on the show. The first show aired on February 2, 1958 with guests Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Willis, Johnny Ray and the Royal Teens. The final show aired on September 10, 1960.MORE . . . .
Beech Nut Chewing Gum was the sponsor of this short-lived Dick Clark production three-years on ABC-TV from February, 1958 through September, 1960(Click image for larger view)
FLAVOR-I-F-I-C!
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For our previous fourth installment four-video posting of ‘Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show with Dick Clark,’ published on MCRFB on November 4, 2015GO HERE.
Above information provided by TV.com. For the complete 1958-1960 Dick Clark Beech Nut Show summary and artist-appearance listing for every showgo over here to TVdb.com.
About the IFIC button seen worn by attendees in the Beech-Nut show audience? Well, it stands for ‘FLAVOR-I-F-I-C.’ As in Beech-Nut chewing gum! Special thanks to Edward Bowman for sharing that ‘trivia’ bit of information with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be showcasing these rare Dick Clark video presentations here on this website from time to time.
In this fifth installment, we present four video classics (below) from the Dick Clark Beech-Nut show as was first broadcast on national television during that memorable late-’50s rock and roll era, featured below.
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FEATURING
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THE CHAMPS (May 3, 1958) SAM COOKE (March 14, 1959) JACKIE WILSON (March 21, 1959) SANTO & JOHNNY (August 1, 1959)
Beech-Nut Chewing Gum: sole sponsor for Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show over ABC Television 1958-1960
The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue has hit the streaming platforms!
On June 12, 2020 came news Universal MusicEnterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performance from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Since its premiere launch on June 12, more videos have been added on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, highlighting the Motown sound. As reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.
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‘T.A.M.I. SHOW’
‘T.A.M.I. SHOW‘ is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. The concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on October 28 and 29, 1964. Free tickets were distributed to local high school students. The acronym “T.A.M.I.” was used inconsistently in the show’s publicity to mean both “Teenage Awards Music International” and “Teen Age Music International”.
The best footage from the two concert dates was combined into a film, which was released on December 29, 1964. Jan and Dean emceed the event and performed its theme song, “Here They Come (From All Over the World)”, written by Los Angeles composers P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, the song erroneously asserting the Rolling Stones are from Liverpool. Jack Nitzsche was the show’s music director.
The film was shot by director Steve Binder and his crew from The Steve Allen Show, using a precursor to high-definition television, called “Electronovision”, invented by the self-taught “electronics whiz,” Bill Sargent (H.W. Sargent, Jr). The film was the second of a small number of productions that used the system. By capturing more than 800 lines of resolution at 25 frame/s, the video could be converted to film via kinescope recording with sufficiently enhanced resolution to allow big-screen enlargement. It is considered one of the seminal events in the pioneering of music films, and more importantly, the later concept of music videos.
JAMES BROWN T.AM.I. 1964
T.A.M.I. Show is particularly well known for James Brown’s performance, which features his legendary dance moves and explosive energy. In interviews, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones has claimed that choosing to follow Brown and The Famous Flames was the biggest mistake of their careers, because no matter how well they performed, they could not top him. In a web-published interview, Binder takes credit for persuading the Stones to follow James Brown, and serve as the centerpiece for the grand finale where all the performers dance together onstage.
The show also featured The Supremes during their reign as the most successful female recording group of the era. The group had three chart-topping singles from July 1964 to December 1964, with the album “Where Did Our Love Go” reaching number two. Diana Ross would go on to work with Binder on several of her television specials, including her first solo television special and her famous Central Park concert, Live from New York Worldwide: For One and for All.
Lesley Gore headlined the TAMI Show in 1964.
Throughout the show, numerous go-go dancers performed in the background or beside the performers under the direction of choreographer David Winters. Among them were Teri Garr and Toni Basil. According to filmmaker John Landis’ DVD commentary for the film’s trailer, he and fellow seventh grade classmate David Cassidy were in the audience for the show.
Dick Clark Productions later acquired ownership of the concert from Sargent.
In 2006, T.A.M.I. Show was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
List of performers:
The Barbarians The Beach Boys Chuck Berry James Brown and The Famous Flames Marvin Gaye (with backing vocals by The Blossoms) Gerry & the Pacemakers Lesley Gore Jan and Dean Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas Smokey Robinson and The Miracles The Rolling Stones The Supremes
The house band, known collectively as The Wrecking Crew, was under the musical direction of Jack Nitzsche and included drummer Hal Blaine, electric bass player Jimmy Bond, guitarists Tommy Tedesco, and Glen Campbell, upright bassist Lyle Ritz, and pianist Leon Russell, saxophonist Plas Johnson and others.
T.A.M.I. Show’s executive producer was Bill Sargent. Sargent held patents in cable television and is considered the father of modern pay-per-view. He was the developer of Electronovision and its associated videotape technologies.
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CHUCK BERRY performs on the T.A.M.I. Show 1964
Set list:
Jan and Dean (Over credits) “(Here They Come) from All Over the World”
Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” “Maybellene”
Gerry and the Pacemakers “Maybellene” “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying” “It’s Gonna Be Alright”
Chuck Berry “Sweet Little Sixteen”
Gerry and the Pacemakers “How Do You Do It?”
Chuck Berry “Nadine”
Gerry and 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’ U.S.A.” “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”
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THE BEACH BOYS (T.A.M.I Show 1964)
During the VHS era, there had never been an authorized home video release of T.A.M.I. Show in its full, original cut, although bootlegs abounded. Most of the bootlegs were missing the Beach Boys’ performance. The Beach Boys had been deleted from all prints made after the movie’s initial theatrical run because of a copyright dispute. Selected numbers from the T.A.M.I. Show were edited together with performances from another concert film by the same producers, The Big T.N.T. Show, to create a hybrid work called That Was Rock. This film did receive a home video release from Media Home Entertainment’s music division, Music Media, in 1984. It was felt that the film was unlikely to be released due to the cost of obtaining the publishing and performance rights to the extensive lineup of artists. (All of the four Beach Boys songs from the show eventually surfaced on DVD in Sights and Sounds of Summer, a special CD/DVD edition of Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys.)
On March 23, 2010, Shout! Factory released T.A.M.I. Show on a restored, digitally remastered and fully authorized DVD, with all performances, including The Beach Boys, included. (A DVD release of the complete film by First Look Studios was planned for 2007, but subsequently withdrawn.)
HITSVILLE U.S.A.! Documentary film that focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. 
