When did music videos start?

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  1. Gegenpresser

    Gegenpresser Well-Known Member

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    You know - the ones with stories/enactments/interpretations/ not just on a stage?

    I have heard about how the rock video began with Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody etc and also MTV.

    But (and I only cite this because I remember it) Gene Pitney was in colour on a bus singing 24 hours from Tulsa and going through a traumatic time, whilst I cried buckets for the bird he'd jocked off, in at least 1964.

    And which is the best?

    My favourite is Gene Pitney wishing he was 24 hours from Marc Almond.

    Or perhaps instead Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby
     
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    There were quite a few done in the mid 60's but for some reason they didn't seem to find their way onto TV until years later.
     
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    I think I am right in saying that the first ever video shown on MTV was Dire Straits - Money for Nothing.
     
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    I loved A-Ha's Take on Me vid as a kid. Similarly I also used to love Incubus' Drive video.

    Thriller takes some beating.
     
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    About 1890 if I remember right from last time I looked it up.
     
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    As far as I know it was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody that is accredited as being the first.
     
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    Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there.
     
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    The first video on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles, very apt.
     
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    Gegenpresser Well-Known Member

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    Yeah well it came in 1975 I believe. Gene Pitney was getting ever nearer to Tulsa on his bus at least a decade before then.
     
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    That was a purpose made Video at the time of the performance, not sure but I don't thinks that counts, could wrong mist.
     
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    At the beginning.
     
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    Queen's Video was on the fly(here you go) try this. Sent by Video.
     
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    Depends how you differentiate a music video from a promo video. Beatles and Elvis had done plenty - most will have seen the Strawberry Fields one.
     
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    1894 like RichK said
     
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    Belinda Carlisle as a kid took some beating
     
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    Matt Monroe from 1967




    Strawberry Fields also 1967



    Bob Dylan 1965

     
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    Might sound a daft question to some of you but what is/was MTV?
     
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    Weren't theirs films rather than videos,?
     
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    I'm not sure the medium they were captured on makes a difference, it's the content that counts. We still call them music videos even though they've been using digital for years.
     
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    Yeah - she had somewhere about her that I imagined being a place on earth.
    Along with Chynna Philips on "Hold On"
    And Susannah Hoff on "Eternal Flame"
    And



    I don't think Gene Pitney's was a film but others may know better.
     
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