Sporadically, the screen would go black when someone at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR". The second video shown was Pat Benatar's " You Better Run". MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.Īppropriately, the first music video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Those words were really accompanied by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. MTV: Music Television launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by original COO John Lack. Posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:24 PM on September 23, 2007Īch, Reading the Wikipedia entry on MTV, I see the actual day of launching MTV was "On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. But I was also one of those kids who, at the time, despised the "New Wave" and I found that a lot of it on MTV caused my interest to wane.įinally, my friend and I discovered "Elephant Parts" available as a Video Disc rental available form 7-Eleven in Dallas in 1983. And I certainly discovered some new and obscure bands on MTV. MTV played some of the music I listened to, which was pretty cool because it certainly wasn't played on the Top-40 radio station which was the only thing available in my area. (Anyone want to talk about being a teenage boy in the pre-Internet era and catching hard-R T&A movies on Showtime? Whoopee!) It was always part of the cable package we had, but we also had some premium channels. So I continued to watch MTV when I returned home. We had cable at home, too, and always had because that's the way it was in small towns where, otherwise, you could only get one television station, and not very well. I was visiting my grandmother in the big city, as I always did for a portion of the summer. Posted by nickyskye at 12:06 PM on September 23, 2007īTW, I'm pretty sure I watched MTV the day it launched at the beginning of August, 1981. You never know what you'll end up learning while participating in a MeFi thread. (apparently his mother invented and patented opaque typewriter correction fluid, commonly known by the brand name "Liquid Paper" or "Wite-Out" and he inherited a fortune when she died) My mind has been blown. #Fish heads fish heads rolly polly fish heads original video seriesPittman's boss, WASEC COO John Lack, had shepherded a TV series called PopClips, created by former Monkee-turned solo artist Michael Nesmith".Īnd now Mike Nesmith, former Monkee is a freakin' philanthropist. Pittman had test driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15 minute show, Album Tracks, on WNBC, New York, in the late 1970s. From Wikipedia, "MTV's programming format was created by the visionary media executive, Bob Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. This I don't believe, a Monkee, Mike Nesmith, from that cheesy group, had an input in the MTV vision. Now prompted to look dang MTV up on Wikipedia., MTV launched the next year, in 1977. As far as I can see Jon Roseman's first music video was a year later than Bohemian Rhapsody, in 1976 with the Stones, Hey Negrita. Thanks so much for your thoughts Oriole Adams and drjimmy11, much appreciated.
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