2020 report on music video from 1980 - part 1 of 2

[xenussister]

Damn, Part 2 was really interesting and YouTube took it down. :(

[Andregrindle]

To me the report,from about 5:17 to 6:03 in this case really illustrates the "freeze out" period after the whole disco sucks bit. The music industry was in a recession and if something had any funk,it was usually considered disco and disco was considered something that "sucked". In many ways paralell's what's happening today with a music industry in crisis and everyone trying to find something to blame it on.

[postingoldtapes]

@Andregrindle As they always have.

[Makkabee]

Promotional videos since THE SEVENTIES? That's not very well researched. There were plenty of promotional videos in the 60s (e.g. the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever") shown on music programs like "American Bandstand." There were also filmed musical shorts done in a style we'd recognize as "music video" today that were shown before feature films back in the golden age of Hollywood. The laser disks were a new storage medium, but other than that this "news story" was old hat even then.

[999manman]

I want the videodisc! What like it today compares???

[Frsng1]

@999manman You Tube!!

[999manman]

@Frsng1 Touche` my friend!

[Frsng1]

@999manman I should have ussed a question mark as opposed to an exclamation point--but I did actually make a good point didn't I? LOL

[recto89]

Who knew at 0:05 Geraldo was a consumer reporter back then before he was replaced by John Stossel.

[thelazycomic]

I was going to watch part 2 of this video... BUT... the Ugly Music Group, (UMG), has of course blocked it. Oh assholes at the Ugly Music Group... your greed is what has destroyed record sales. (Oh, and the fact that all you morons now push is hip-hop shit).

[AbuBishir]

Video Disc. 2:45 HAHAHA hahaha lol

[Wilthomer66]

Clive Davis in this "video" is akin to Dick James in 1962 saying "Guitar groups are on the way out Mr. Epstein..."

[CatchyNameGoesHere]

gahh! why doesn't part 2 work in Canada?

[grogtgs]

@CatchyNameGoesHere to view part two

Try video down loadx dot com. Paste the URL for part two in there. Part two is

v=E9KRtuEttIQ

[Dharmata]

I really want to see what's in part 2 that it was pulled.

[spakuloid]

5:59 that IS Carrot Top. I am almost positive.

[zubieta]

you see? its been already 30 years and the industry is still alive. they are trying to use everything as an excuse for the lack of good content. They said radio was gonna kill the industry, cassette was going to kill it, cd was going to kill it, dvr recorders were going to kill it, and yet its still alive...

[Wakk013]

Funny how this has been on Youtube for about four years now, and the UMG is now worried? Hmmm, I knew they were behind, but this behind? Oh well, I'm not spending any money on them any more.

[doodmonkey]

#UMG and the music industry does not want you to see this video. Why? Because they're full of sh!t and have always been full of sh!t. Watch this, spread this, stop paying the record labels money. Support the bands you love by going out and seeing their shows.

[Frap357]

Universal Music Group (UMG) has filed an DMCA takedown notice in order to take this video down from the internet.

They don't want you to see how they overreacted and lied when they said 'home taping is kililng music'.

[freghard]

Thanks for the video, always like to see this stuff archived and available!

I remember the $25 tapes but they were a bit cheaper by the case!!! unless it was that ampex crap ;-0( TDK was ok fuji was pretty good too.

[ZeldaDD]

Ah, a laserdisc!  Good times.

[tehsuckdotnet]

STREISAND EFFECT. Learn about it.

[MrScottyCline]

"the most repeatable kind of image for adults is pornography."

We've come so far...

[lurkerrekrul]

For anyone who can't view the second part of this video; Go to the site HideMyAss (ad the W's and COM) and enter the URL for part two into the box. It might take a couple tries, but eventually it will come up with the video.

[darkstar949]

Thanks for posting this, it seems like the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[nsputnik]

Please re-post part 2 or at least put it on Mediafire or Rapidshare so we can re-post it many times over on YT.

[KOSMICKEN09]

i hope you meant emptyvee for today, cause MTV was awesome back then....more like reality tv

[Semitotal]

"Tusk, in its entirety, with the pauses, as Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard!"

[JustLikeThatBird]

What's the band/song in that last video clip, with the "cartoon-like humor and sexual overtones?"

[postingoldtapes]

No idea. I recorded this off the air and was watching plenty of TV at the time, and I've never heard this song other than in this report. It sounds like "do rocks", but it could be any combination of words.

[iTrevor10]

The lyrics I understood were "How Long Can I Bin" and the group that sings it is called the Do Rocks

[lurkerrekrul]

@JustLikeThatBird - After a bit of Googling for the lyrics, I discovered that the video is called "It Hurts to be in Love" by the Durocs. There's a low-quality copy of the video on YouTube. Just search for;

Durocs hurts love

And it will be the first match.

[JustLikeThatBird]

@lurkerrekrul hahah nice - thanks!

[trainluvr]

I love how this ordinary report devolves into porn and pederasty at the very end! Swaggart, Jackson, Foley and Craig were'nt around yet but leave it to 20/20 to find something. After all Geraldo was thier serious investigative reporter.

[razzking]

Postingoldtapes: You obscessive/compulsive or something? Anyway I'm GLAD you and others at YouTube as well as the Youtube "Establishment" (Yes, I'm an old coot too) are doing this. As a history major and history junky this is the best thing to happen to the study of history since history itself.

I just checked the Inflation Calculator. $25 in 1979 would be like $74.64.

[postingoldtapes]

No more than any other collector. It was something that made sense to record at the time, and I just kept it in the ever growing collection since. When I set up a YouTube account, I decided to share some of this stuff before it faded forever. For instance, I have about a hundred tapes of music video clips from the 1980s. I look through the lists, find something interesting, check that it's not already up, and digitize and upload it. It's the rare hobby that benefits others.

[warboop]

well done you rock big time

[lurkerrekrul]

@postingoldtapes - Do you happen to have a music video that shows a girl tied/chained to an ice chair in what looks like a freezer? I saw it many years ago and don't remember anything about it other than that a girl was restrained on a large, throne-like chair made out of ice. I'm pretty sure it was a rock song.

[razzking]

How the hell did you acquire this? Did you tape it in 1980 and sit on it all this time?

[postingoldtapes]

Yes, exactly that. I have over 3000 VHS tapes, some of which date back to 1979 when I got my first VHS deck (top loading, mechanical transport, rotary tuner and no remote control other than a wired pause switch). Things sucked back then. Oh, and blank tapes cost $25. BLANK!

(Great. Now I feel like an old coot.)

[DogmaticShrew]

@postingoldtapes Well thanks you kindly for the interesting upload:) You old fart ;)

[edcrawf]

Funny how Clive Davis was proven wrong. I am sure that later, and even now, he is supporting video (among any and all other means) to get music out to the public. Great clip. When in 1980 did this report air?

[DevSodDribble]

This is really interesting, especially considering the current state of the music industry. Downloading at home is a LOT harder to stop than someone taping a record. Plus the market is so fractured nowadays, even Weird Al doesn't know who to do parodies of. Crazy!

[jimmyeightysix]

I disagree that there is no great music by new artists today. The problem is that there is absolutely NO SUPPORT by radio, and NO PROMOTION by the record companies! Internet isn't killing music, it's saving it! Thanks for the cool clip!

[postingoldtapes]

Well, the fault can be laid directly at the feet of Lou Abrams, the father of radio statical sampling. By polling, he found out what songs least offended people. This resulted in fewer and fewer songs being played until we've wound up where we are today.

[xeokym]

Ahhh! FLASHBACKS!!! I have "Tusk" on 45.

[kingofgrief]

I saw this piece when it first aired...it was my introduction to "Video Killed The Radio Star"! Thanks for the archive!

[postingoldtapes]

Don't forget all the other ones. They've been singing this same song, with slight changes of the words, since the introduction of radio. Yes, they sued broadcasters for playing music on the radio, claiming that it would totally destroy record sales. Oh, and their father, the sheet music business, sued player piano makers.

Any increase in sales, on the other hand, is entirely due to their own genius.

[CaptainWrong]

One of my favorite things is how people in the music industry still won't consider the possibility that the reason sales are slipping is that they just aren't releasing a product people want to buy. A few years after this report, it'd be home taping is killing the music industry, then DAT, then used CDs, then the internet.

Same old song and dance, yet everyone is unwilling to look in the mirror.

Great clip. Thanks.

[inwoodliver]

hugh downs is host i believe

[postingoldtapes]

The hairstyles alone should tell you that!

[DangerousBastard]

Yeah, that and the big "1980" on top! lol

[moonshark21]

"Great FM Radio!?" This IS old!