V = JB

This week’s V is for Video Thursday music video travels back 50 years to the legendary 1964 T.A.M.I. show (Teenage Awards Music International) in Santa Monica, California. This week’s release of the James Brown biopic Get On Up has again shone the spotlight on Augusta’s own James Brown, Soul Brother #1, the Godfather of Soul. The New Yorker this week called Get On Up the second-best film ever made about James Brown. The best? The grainy black & white footage of his T.A.M.I. performance (below), which The New Yorker called “arguably the most electrifying performance in the history of postwar American music.” Watch ’til the very end and judge for yourself. One thing it establishes without any doubt: Mr. Brown was indeed the hardest working man in show business.


And two years later, on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1966.

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