MTV Was Born Today
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got beat to Video Killed the radio star, Freshman in HS had 4 channels sometimes 5 had no clue what MTV was for a few years and why everyone was so excited and look at it now
In 1980 I saw the Buggles video for Video Killed The Radio Star as a filler between movies on HBO. I wondered what the heck they were talking about. About a year later I found out. HBO played random music videos between movies sometimes back then (late 70’s to at least 1980). Another I remember was Thin Litzy performing the Cowboy Song.
My sister and I used to wait for 11PM when a local religious channel would go off air and MTV would come on the same channel. The owner of the religious channel eventually found out and he extended his broadcasting past 11 PM.
In the early 80’s, at 4 or 4:30 PM every day HBO would play “Video Jukebox”. I assume that time was selected to capture kids after school. My girlfriend had HBO so we would meet at her apartment on College Avenue to watch it and then do “homework “.
A couple videos I remember from MTV's early days:
Two big ones. Flock of Seagulls and Devo.
Here’s one you don’t hear much anymore but it got a lot of airtime on early MTV
Don’t get me started on J. Geils - my ears are still ringing after that Rec Hall Concert - Damn that was loud.
And its slow death began on this day May 21st 1992...It was also the harbinger of horrible Network television to come...
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One of my favorites from the early days of MTV:
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Yes he is or at least was at The Peabody. I've seen him at a few local watering holes.
I'll be at Parx Casino tomorrow night watching this guy sing.
I used to have fantasies about Nina Blackwood
Nina Blackwood and Mark Goodman today....
I really liked Martha Quinn. She was spunky.
She was my favorite as well.
Thought Kurt Loder was pretty cool as well.
I didn't know that but I did know he's married to a woman that was on Dynasty (the TV show) back in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Beller
I really liked Martha Quinn. She was spunky.
Mojo Nixon had a song about her back in the 1980s.
To quote a Garth Brooks tune, sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.I used to have fantasies about Nina Blackwood
