History of the Music Videos

History Of The Music Video

1929

Bessie Smiths "St Louis Blues" could debatably be one of the earliest examples of a music video. This music video was released in 1929, the video was a demonstration of the original song. It was so popular that it was shown in lots of different theatres in America. It stayed in theatres for about 4 years. 

1942

A little bit like Bessie Smith, the singer Bing Crosby also had one of his songs appear in a movie. The name of the film is "Holiday Inn" which was released in the year 1942. The song is known as "White Christmas" which was performed by Bing Crosby and Martha Mears. This song on its own was able to sell over 50 million copies. It made the song one of the worlds biggest selling single world wide. It was the highest grossing film musical.

1965

In 1965, a singer called Frank Sinatra replaced Bing Crosby as one of the worlds biggest star. On June the 20th of 1965, thousands of people had turned to watch "The Rat Pack" perform. They were a group of singers that Frank Sinatra was actually a part of. The performance was shown through movie theatres across America.

MTV/1981

MTV is music television channel, which was launched in the year 1981, and is still around to this present day, but there are also many more music channels in the present day. It was a channel which was aimed at showing music videos all day and night. The first music video that MTV released was a video called "Video Killed The Radiostar".

Present Day

In our present day, there are music videos all over TV, internet, portable devises and much more. The internet has made it so much more easier to access music videos. On YouTube there are music videos all over it, just type in the music video you would like to see and it will come. Todays music videos are fun, but has a very sexualised nature. This song "So Freakin' Tight" is such an enjoyable song, and it wants to get people moving, and it has been on the charts many times, but it has a sexual view on women, unlike videos would back in the past.