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Rock music is, let’s face it, overexposed. Now that virtually every company that advertises on national TV has purchased a chunk of classic or contemporary rock, the Who’s back catalog has all the resonance of a Doublemint jingle. That’s not how things were in the mid-’60s, when cheapie movie-mill American International Pictures started releasing concert flicks featuring performers who were otherwise heard only on crackly AM radios. 1966’s The Big TNT Show didn’t present the biggest of the era’s stars—Pop Gear had the Beatles, The TAMI Show the Stones—but it featured several acts whose reputations have only grown in the interim (the Byrds, the Lovin’ Spoonful, the Ronettes), a performer currently attempting a comeback (Donovan), and another experiencing a posthumous renaissance (Ray Charles). Plus Ike and Tina Turner, Joan Baez, Phil Spector, and host David McCallum, the other man from U.N.C.L.E. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Library of Congress’ Mary Pickford Theater, 101 Independence Ave. SE. Free. (202) 707-5677. (Mark Jenkins)