The TAMI Show is ready for DVD release!!

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7371058&style=movie&BAB=M

FWIW.

 

It's not looking good for any release in the near future. I had pre-ordered this from Deep Discount in February. I just checked my account and noticed that the order has been canceled. I hope this gets "back on track" for release, soon.

 

Here's the official news courtesy of an e-mail sent to me: Hi Brad,
Here is some recent info on why the TAMI Show DVD has been temporarily been put on the back burner for awhile. Although Dick Clark has the right to release this on DVD, the music publishing companies involved have not OK'd the music published in this DVD. (Licensing fees of course). And this is the same reason why Paul Shaffer's British tribute DVD recorded at B. B. King's nightclub was shelved too. The money raised by this DVD was partially going to go to help pay some of Mike Smith's medical bills.

If you want to Brad you can post this news on that TAMI thread at SH.
Thanks !

 

Oh my Lord....I am so sick of this license fee run-around garbage.

I'll stop now before I type something that will get me Gorted.

Thanks for the detective work, Brad!

 

Thanks for the update. I hope the delay won't be too long. I would really like to see this come out before the end of this summer.

 

I worked in this aspect of the music biz, so I ask this question...
why didn;'t they get this publishing liscensing fee issued worked out earlier ?? It should have been the very first thing they did before putting the DVD together

 

Judging from all the stuff that just sits in the vaults, I would argue that the business does NOT work.

 

I am sure the folks involved with this project are frustrated and disappointed also but this really ****es me off. It seems like this thing was just dangled in front of my nose and then jerked away.For petes sake this is frustrating.And they wonder why people turn to the "grey" side.

 

They've gotta grab that one last cocktail at the Titanic bar before the band starts playing "Nearer My God To Thee".

 

Yeah, and we just had a thread where I and others argued against longer and longer copyright extensions and a few SH forum members expressed that they think these copyrights/licensing fees/publishing fees, etc. should pretty much go on forever. This stuff should have been at least "nearing" public domain by now, but Disney and others continue to grease Congress for their own purposes.

 

was this ever released?

 

I don't think so.

I pre-ordered it so long ago that I have no idea where from.

 

The what show?

 

TAMI = They (these DVDs) Almost Made It (into stores).

 

(Deleted- sorry; information was wrong!)

 

A few years ago, Steve Binder sent me one of his copies that had all of the Jan & Dean introductions to the acts.

But what's really interesting, is that there were originally comedy sketches worked out for Jan & Dean. I have part of the original script for that stuff . . . and I've always wondered if any of it was filmed and cut . . . or if there was simply a change in direction, and those bits were dropped.

One of the original scripts for the duo's dialog (introducing the various acts) had them clowning around, mangling the lyrics to "From All Over the World." And one of the early scripted bits called for Dean Torrence to be dressed as an angel, complete with wings and a wire halo . . . classic J&D shtick.

I've interviewed Steve . . . but we talked more about Electronovision vs. the filming of the Jan & Dean opening sequence.

Here's an image from part of one of Jan & Dean's original early scripts for the TAMI Show:



Mark A. Moore

 

It seems bizarre that a licensing issue would affect this release, since that would be the first thing anyone would investigate before committing any more money to the project . . . Who would go to the expense of restoring something they don't know can be released?

 

I have a copy released commercially on beta in the early 80's with everthing except the "Beach Boys"..

 

To the best of my knowledge, the whole show in its original format has never been released commercially. What you most likely have is the "That Was Rock" comp tape consisting of TAMI and TNT (the show that took place the following year) performances, with newly filmed intros by Chuck Berry. Seeing the original shows in their originally broadcast form is quite a different experience.

 

It seems that what the music publishers originally quoted as the licensing fees was changed "substantially" upwards to the point where they made a decision to postpone it. The good news is however renegotiations are presently taking place.

 

No, it wasn't. I had pre-ordered it from DeepDiscount and without any explanation my pre-order was cancelled a couple of months ago. I think there might be some explanation in earlier posts in this thread if you wish to look through the postings.

 

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