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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:26 PM Original message |
I have a feeling the woman on MSNBC is full of shit. Jacko wasn't the first black on MTV. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm going to say that Eddy Grant was the first. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. I thought it was either Jacko or Prince |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. MTV was labelled as racist back then. |
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jmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Don't know if he was the first but MTV's site |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. He wasn't the first ... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. I thought that sounded strange, too ........ |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I'm pretty sure The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" was the first video. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-25-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. They sure were, |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 04:45 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Like a Virgin wasn't even *Madonna's* first video |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 04:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I always thought they were some one-hit-wonder bunch of nobodies. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 05:04 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Oh, I knew that one |
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mockmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 07:00 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I remember a critic |
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ArnoldLayne (871 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. I believe it was Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant but the first video |
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LTR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Nope |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. To be honest there was a stink about that when MTV first came out |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well the WaPo said he was... |
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LTR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. I do remember seeing Stevie Wonder on MTV in 1982 |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Billie Jean was first |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
18. Wasn't the black VJ the first black on MTV? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. JJ Jackson |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. you beat me to it |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Blackwood. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. wasn't there a skinny blondish guy as a VJ? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yeah... |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. at least I wasn't going crazy |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. JJ Jackson or something like that? |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-26-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
26. Here is a list of the first 62 videos on MTV |
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