What was the "second" video ever played on MTV that pivotal day in August of 1981?

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Answer 1

"You Better Run" by Pat Benatar.

Benatar debuted with the platinum In The Heat Of The Night (1979) and both "Heartbreaker" and "We Live For Love" charted in the Top 40. Her next album, Crimes Of Passion (1980), rocketed to #2, reached quadruple platinum, and included her first Top 10 hit, the gold-certified "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." The album also spawned the video for "You Better Run," the second ever aired on MTV, which debuted that year.

Answer 2

G'day Tunefactory,

Thanks for the question

Ask Yahoo answered this question. I quote

Let's take a trip through time, back to the days when MTV actually played music videos all day and night. It seems like so long ago -- the year 1981 -- when the groundbreaking channel first launched. At midnight on August 1, 1981, cable upstart MTV made its first broadcast with "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the British band, The Buggles. But what came next? We put on our skinny ties and Ray-Ban sunglasses and paid a visit to Yahoo!'s 1980s Pop Culture category to find your answer.
Deep within the Eighties Club, we read about MTV's rocky start. After the Buggles, the channel aired five spots introducing MTV's veejays (the spots were played in the wrong order). Then the next music video was broadcast -- the tune was "You Better Run" by Pat Benatar. Some fumbling and dead air followed these first two videos, as engineers and veejays scrambled to play videos in the right order. Eventually, the MTV team got their act together and became one of the decade's biggest influences on popular music.

An artist biography on Hip Online confirmed Pat Benatar's status as the second artist to air a video on MTV. "You Better Run" was Benatar's first video. The song was featured on her second album, Crimes of Passion, released in 1980. This album also featured her first top ten hit, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." Many of Benatar's later videos enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV, particularly 1983's "Love Is a Battlefield" directed by Bob Giraidi.

Both MTV and Pat Benatar are still rockin' on into the 21st century, although we suspect Benatar plays more music than the channel.

Answer 3

Oh heavens sure, I omit the previous MTV. I stayed up previous due at night with our daughter and watched MTV each and all of the time. Boy, those have been the coolest ol' days back then. Our teen watches MTV while they have the steel Bands or Headbangers Ball and that's it. I watch a number of those with him while we are able to get the super television far flung from his dad. lol. yet different than reminscising relating to the previous days, MTV would not have very plenty to grant anymore. it extremely is a shame because of the fact those movies we watched have been so absofrekinlutely fantastic!! *sighs loudly, wishing that the excellent issues did no longer could substitute in life*

Answer 4

I remember the first was the very funny "video killed the radio star" and I believe that the second one was by Pat Benitar, you'd better run?

Answer 5

Rod Stewart

Answer 6

Pat Benatar - You Better Run

Answer 7

You better run by Pat Benatar

Answer 8

You do realize that everyone is going to tell you who the first was, like everyone on earth doesnt know already. Why do people think they are brilliant for knowing it? I swear, I die laughing everytime I hear someone say it!!

Answer 9

Pat Benatar ............you better run

first one was , the Buggles ..........video killed the radio star ...........

cheers !

Answer 10

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