Which was the first music video ever made?

I remember The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' from 1967.
As per Wikipedia:

The promotional film for the song is now recognized as one of the first and most successful conceptual music videos, featuring reverse film effects, stop motion animation, disconcerting jump cuts from daytime to night-time and (among other things) the Beatles playing and subsequently pouring paint over and smashing an upright piano. It also featured the use of jarring juxtaposition of setting with props - such as a table in the middle of an open field - often seen in more recent 'eccentric' music videos. It was filmed on 30 January 1967 in Knole Park in Sevenoaks, and directed by Peter Goldmann. Goldmann was a friend of Klaus Voormann who recommended the Swedish TV director to the group. The location of the filming is easy to find, as it is on one of the main roads through the park with a recognisable tree. Both videos were selected by New York's MoMA as two of the most influential music videos in the late 1960s; both were originally broadcast in the United States in early 1967 on the variety show Hollywood Palace, with Liberace as host.

Well if you really want to know.

Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles...

I guess I was right :D
Thanks guys.

Video Killed The Radio Star was the frist music video on MTV.

They say it was Queens Bohemian Rhapsody in the UK b ut i am pretty sure that is not the firsr ever.

One of the first was Video killed the radio star which is ironic.

Whoops. Supposed to be a comment.

Travelin' Man, by Ricky Nelson, 1961
The 2nd half of this video with Nelson singing, and scenes of the places he's singing about in the background, 'kick-started' the music video era.

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Define the terms. Video by definition is something made for and broadcast on television.
Scopitone films don't meet that definition. Nor do music shorts filmed and shown in theaters during the 30's and 40's.
Ricky Nelson performances on the Ozzie & Harriet show come much closer (and earlier than traveling man), but they are not usually conceptual in the way most videos are thought of. They are simply someone performing a song on film for a tv show. If that's a "music video" then Philadelphia Bandstand from the 50's (precursor to American Bandstand) had the first "videos".
Intent also enters in: Was Traveling Man shot to promote the single on television?
Apparently so. According to historians, Ozzie Nelson realized that working Rick's singing into the plot (of the tv show) was going to be impossible, so Ozzie filmed Ricky singing "Travelin' Man," superimposed some travelogue scenes over the film and tacked it onto a show episode at the end. Viola! The music video was born.

I'm doing my dissertation on music video. There were very early forms of music video as far back as 1920 when sound-films were first invented. They were called 'musical shorts' and Warner Bros made a series of these shorts called 'Spooney Melodies'.

example:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBo98gjikxQ

MTV did not invent music video... they had been around for years before MTV was first broadcast. There were even shows dedicated to music video on ordinary TV in the years leading up to MTV, which surely proves that they didn't invent it. In terms of 'pop video' being a video for a popular band... The Beatles were one of the first. They made a video for Strawberry Fields which has no performance in it, not even miming the words, which was a style no one had really seen before.

I got y'all licked: meet the Scopitone -- a late ‘50s/early ‘60s video jukebox made in France from fighter plane parts, which was the catalyst for the first modern music promo films.

Among the very first of these is the 1958 film for Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Le Poinçonneur des Lilas’, and if y'all aren't down with Serge, you gotta do yourself a favour and pick up "Histoire de Melody Nelson"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGXkT485ic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njWAq4Qq3k

Back to Scopitone: per the below link, "Those early videos forged a template that is still being followed today – conceptual interpretations, photogenic backdrops, real-world scenarios... and lashings of kitsch!"

http://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Blogs/French_Letter/tabid/80/EntryId/955/How-France-invented-music-video.aspx

Videos didn't start with MTV. Nice try on the Buggles though, people...

Who's got earlier?

Scott
Toronto, Canada

Here's that opening, Mr. ABnormally.

chantilly lace was t6he first by the big bopper

http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music.htm

The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975....

i think it's either the purple people eater or jailhouse rock

Blame it on the boogie by the jackson 5

Heck...weren't silent films synced to music back in the day?

what was the first music video ever made?

A Hard Day's Night?

Surrealismo by Salvador Dali (1945)

Maroon 5 - This Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEx4_qXjb0

The Bob Dylan TV you tube channel says subterranean homesick blues was the first pop video. Won't give me an embedding code so heres a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BulpSgZjJA

Define the terms. Video by definition is something made for and broadcast on television.
Scopitone films don't meet that definition. Nor do music shorts filmed and shown in theaters during the 30's and 40's.
Ricky Nelson performances on the Ozzie & Harriet show come much closer (and earlier than traveling man), but they are not usually conceptual in the way most videos are thought of. They are simply someone performing a song on film for a tv show. If that's a "music video" then Philadelphia Bandstand from the 50's (precursor to American Bandstand) had the first "videos".
Intent also enters in: Was Traveling Man shot to promote the single on television?
Apparently so. According to historians, Ozzie Nelson realized that working Rick's singing into the plot (of the tv show) was going to be impossible, so Ozzie filmed Ricky singing "Travelin' Man," superimposed some travelogue scenes over the film and tacked it onto a show episode at the end. Viola! The music video was born.

Elvis' Jailhouse rock video was made in 1957

The first music video played on television was Jail House Rock by Elvis Presley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRu3tw9fYxE

Define the terms. Video by definition is something made for and broadcast on television.
Scopitone films don't meet that definition. Nor do music shorts filmed and shown in theaters during the 30's and 40's.
Ricky Nelson performances on the Ozzie & Harriet show come much closer (and earlier than traveling man), but they are not usually conceptual in the way most videos are thought of. They are simply someone performing a song on film for a tv show. If that's a "music video" then Philadelphia Bandstand from the 50's (precursor to American Bandstand) had the first "videos".
Intent also enters in: Was Traveling Man shot to promote the single on television?
Apparently so. According to historians, Ozzie Nelson realized that working Rick's singing into the plot (of the tv show) was going to be impossible, so Ozzie filmed Ricky singing "Travelin' Man," superimposed some travelogue scenes over the film and tacked it onto a show episode at the end. Viola! The music video was born.

it was actually Jailhouse rock by elvis presley in 1957....you can evenn google it

I cannot believe the level of ignorance in this discussion. MTV didn't invent the music video. I remember seeing music videos in-between movies on HBO back in the 1970's. (Yeah, cable TV existed back then, and so did HBO.) Top of the Pops in the UK used to show them in that decade also, as did variety shows.

Abba has a video for every one of their singles going back to 1974. There's a video of Alice Cooper from 1972 for "Elected." I've seen music videos for Manfred Mann singing "Quinn the Eskimo," and a music video from a song by the Turtles. These are NOT just "performances" filmed for TV, or culled from variety show appearances, or concert footage. These are conceptual, script-based, specially filmed and edited shorts set to their music. These videos weren't shot after MTV came on the air; they were made at the time of the song's release. So it's been done since at least the early 1960's, and perhaps earlier.

I wish people would use their brains. Even if none of this was true, how the hell could MTV have invented the music video? Don't you think they'd have had to have something to play on their cable channel? Or is someone going to suggest that the first radio station recorded and pressed their own records so they had something to play, thereby inventing pop music?

I'm doing my dissertation on music video. There were very early forms of music video as far back as 1920 when sound-films were first invented. They were called 'musical shorts' and Warner Bros made a series of these shorts called 'Spooney Melodies'.

example:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBo98gjikxQ

MTV did not invent music video... they had been around for years before MTV was first broadcast. There were even shows dedicated to music video on ordinary TV in the years leading up to MTV, which surely proves that they didn't invent it. In terms of 'pop video' being a video for a popular band... The Beatles were one of the first. They made a video for Strawberry Fields which has no performance in it, not even miming the words, which was a style no one had really seen before.

Jail house Rock my friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI&p=1A64EFBD6C658758&playnext=1&index=16

I think it was "Friendly Little Finger" by Frank Zappa, a couple years before MTV... I cant find it anywhere anymore, but i remeber seeing it a long time ago.

I think subterranean homesick blues was the first ever music video but it realy depends on what you consider to be a music video. I can't find a date for when it was made.

Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles was the first one on MTV.

However, Kenny Everett had the Kenny Everett Video Show on a couple years before this.

Blondie had a video in 1980 or before.

The Beatles had scads of what could be considered videos.

Hard to say which is the very first video to be defined as an official "video"

Actually, all of these answers are wrong. The very first music video was in 1894 and the song was "The Little Lost Child" where the two writers used a lantern and some still images and projected them onto a screen while they performed the song.

But if you're counting one that was fully credited as the first music video, it was 1930's Spooney Melodies musical video series.

Everyone always assumes the Beatles had the first music video, but you can just YouTube various artist from the 1930-1960 and find many old videos. One of my favorites would have to be "If I Didn't Care" by the Ink Spots (1930s).

But to those who have answered, if you just took the time to Google this question, you could have found the history of music videos without looking like an idiot who just talks out of their ass.

"Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis Presley was the first music video ever made. It was made back in 1957, look it up on youtube. Not many people know this, therefore posting videos from when music videos were published to television.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video#1960.E2.80.931967:_Visual_innovation

Jailhouse Rock