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episode of THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET, a young Ricky Nelson performed
the sang "Traveling Man." When travel footage was combined with Ricky's song
performance (by producer Ozzie Nelson), it effectively created the first
music video.
The first music video to air on MTV cable network was "Video
Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. It debuted at midnight August 1,
1981. (A music video being a a videotape of a musical group's performance of
their latest hit record).
TRIVIA NOTE: The "Soundies" were the
ancestors of the modern music videos. Between 1941-47 over 2000 primitive
3-minute films called "Soundies" were manufactured and placed into specially
designed projectors known as Panorams that displayed filmed musical numbers
onto a small plastic screen mounted atop the jukebox.
For the price of a nickel, patrons could see such 1940s
entertainers as Duke Ellington, Cabe Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Doris Day
(singing with the Les Brown Orchestra), Dorothy Dandrige (dressed in a
cowgirl outfit singing the "Cow Cow Boogie") and even Alan Ladd (before his
film days) singing with Rio Rita and her All-Girl Orchestra.
Soundies were introduced in 1940 by Mills Novelty Company of
Chicago but by the end of the Second World War, the 4000 jukeboxes in
operation around the country soon fell out of fashion.
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