MTV Original Broadcast from Thursday April 15th 1982 Part 2

[Wisconsin222]

What happened to showing ELO on MTV? I, plus most of my generation (this generation) love ELO.

[2point6x4]

this was when mtv was mtv.

[gummodude]

Remember when you had to get the adapter to get mtv in stereo through your tuner?

[progrocker69]

Someone forgot to autotune Pat Benatar.

[LimaAlphaPapaSierra]

@progrocker69 No, this is when vocals had heart, soul and feeling! There's nothing off key here. No need to flatten those vocals into flat, soulless, heartless square wave TONES!

[progrocker69]

@LimaAlphaPapaSierra I think the sarcasm was lost on you, somehow....

Twenty thousand Katy Perrys and Rebecca Blacks couldn't touch one Pat Benatar.

[SunbeltRyders]

@progrocker69 I think it was lost on me too.. I went back and watched the vid thinking "aw cmon she sounds fine" lol

[Ecwfan]

Martha Quinn was someone I had a crush on as a kid. Wow , an ELO video...and that was...ok that was a weird one. Never heard of the Greg Kihn Band....things ya learn.

[LimaAlphaPapaSierra]

@Ecwfan Martha Quinn was HOT!

[buntaro23]

Where is part 1 ??

[skyroe2]

this vid has quality of an early 80s porno

[DNchap1417]

Martha Quinn looks like Kate Jackson from Charlie's Angels!

[smokey11able]

whats this the name of the song playing at 733

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

It amazes me that I lived in a little one-horse town in Arkansas, yet our cable company was apparently one of the first to actually carry MTV, thank goodness!!!

[lurch321]

Would love to spend some Precious Time with Pat!

[JimHadar1]

lol thats right! I forgot that Ames had MTV fairly early on. I had cousins there and they kept talking about MTV and I was considerably jealous. My town didn't get it til the next year, '83.

[jdog34505]

wheres part 1???

[TheEarlymtv]

who wouldnt wanna bang pat..

[TheEarlymtv]

wow, really good quality..

[janenguy2011]

I can still name the original MTV V.J.'s (I think I can): Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, J.J. Jackson, a white guy named something Davis or something, and another guy who I can picture but I can't say his name....damn.

[jdog34505]

@janenguy2011 to help ya out the other two guys were Mark Goodman and Alan Hunter

[DNchap1417]

@janenguy2011: don't you mean Mark Goodman-- the curly-haired guy who's also the leader of the pack-- and Alan Hunter-- the other white guy with straight hair--?

[Neptuneman07]

This is great, much thanks! BTW: anyone want to buy a TV from Asia?

[Neptuneman07]

This is great, much thanks!

[JimHadar1]

The musical interludes were also good filler, especially in the "non-prime" hours when commercial inventory was light. In April of '82 MTV was still kind of struggling and hadn't reached coast-to-coast distribution with the execption of some of the bigger cities. Had to fill the time with something to make the hour balance out.

[hermitnerd]

@JimHadar1 there were also some smaller test markets in the midwest during that time. I remember watching MTV in Ames, Iowa in '82

[duckiedale80]

You know how I know you're gay?  You like Asia!

[drfulmore07]

@christiananderson3 So they can get more music videos and do something that no other cable channel has ever done before around that time.

[RetroToledo]

@drfulmore07 I was under the impression they had no sponsors to fill in a break during that part so they had to put something there instead.

[hermitnerd]

@RetroToledo these were spaces made up of stock footage they built into the broadcast, for "local" ads (like cheesy car dealer ones, etc.). If there were no takers this is what you saw

[RetroToledo]

@hermitnerd Thank you.  I figured that's what it was.

[Gerkinstock]

@hermitnerd... Do you remember the b&w one with clips of people doing the jitterbug?