Today is Rod Stewart’s 79th birthday and today’s music video of the day is One More Time, taken from his 32nd studio album, The Tears of Hercules. Appearing with Stewart in this video are his actual backup singers, Amanda Miller, Holly Brewer, and Becca Kotte.
Rod Stewart, incidentally, holds the record for being the artist featured most frequently during MTV’s first day of broadcast. On August 1st, 1981, MTV featured eleven of his videos.
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On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 116 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 107th video to air on MTV was yet another video from Rod Stewart. This video featured Rod singing that blondes have more fun while surrounded by many, many blondes. I know at least one redhead who would disagree with Mr. Stewart.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 88th video to premiere on MTV was the video for Rod Stewart’s You’re In My Heart. It’s Rod singing in a restaurant. This was one of 11 Rod Stewart videos to be shown on MTV’s first day of broadcast.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 84th video to premiere on MTV on its first day of broadcast was the video for Rod Stewart’s I Was Only Joking. Rod Stewart was a popular man on August 1st. Including this one, eleven different Rod Stewart videos were played. I Was Only Joking was one of the few Rod Stewart videos to only be aired once on that day, despite the fact that the song itself remains one of Stewart’s most popular.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music
Proving that the music gods have a sense of humor, MTV followed the sublime video for Blondie’s Heart of Glass with yet another video from Rod Stewart. This performance clip is one of the 16 Rod Stewart videos that were played through MTV’s first day of broadcast.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 63rd video to play on MTV was the video for Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s The Night. The video is part of the “Rod Stewart Gets Laid” gene of music videos, which was a very popular genre during MTV’s first day of broadcast.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 49th video to play on MTV was the video for Blondie’s Rapture, which only aired once on that date despite being better remembered than many of the videos that played multiple times. The 50th video was The Who’s Don’t Let Go The Coat. This was the Who’s second video to air on MTV, after You Better You Bet.
That brings us the 51st video. Rod Stewart’s Ain’t Love A Bitch was one of 11 Rod Stewart videos that were played on MTV’s first day. In fact, Rod Stewart was by far MTV’s most popular artist when it premiered. It’s tempting (and probably correct) to say that today’s MTV viewers probably has no idea who Rod Stewart is but then again, today’s MTV viewers aren’t watching music videos to begin with.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 166 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music.
The 36th video played on MTV was the video for Blotto’s I Wanna Be a Lifeguard. At the time, Blotto was a regional success story, extremely popular amongst college students in the Northeast but not particularly well-known in the rest of the country. They were the type of talented but quirky and not obviously commercial band that MTV would sadly shun in later years. However, in 1981, there weren’t that many music videos to choose from and a great band like Blotto could be as different as they wanted to be and still have a shot.
Blotto’s video was followed by a video from a performer who was, in many ways, their polar opposite. Rod Stewart was the most featured artist on MTV’s first day. The 37th video to air on August 1st, 1980 was the video for Rod Stewart’s Passion.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
On August 1st, 1980, MTV premiered. Over the course of that day, they played over 160 unique music videos. The 26th video that they played was the video for Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Actually, it would be more appropriate to say that they tried to play it. MTV’s first broadcast day was not without its technical problems. When they first tried to play the video, only the audio was heard. There was no picture. After 27 seconds of this, MTV moved on to another video. They would again attempt to play Rod Stewart’s infamous hit later in the day, this time with success.
In defense of this song, it’s apparently not meant to be taken seriously. Stewart and co-writer Duane Hitchings have both said the song was meant to be a spoof on disco. The spoof, of course, went on to become the song that Stewart arguably remains best known for.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
The 15th song to be broadcast on MTV on August 1st, 1980 was this video for Rod Stewart’s cover of Sailing. There were actually two videos shot for this song. The first video featured Stewart sailing outside of Dublin. The version that aired on MTV was shot at New York Harbor.
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The First Videos Shown on MTV:
Through the Shattered Lens 