I saw that, too. It's the weirdest thing.

'ringo

Ringo, have you noticed the front page of the message board
is two to three days behind on their "latest post" listings?
Is VH1 Classic asleep at the switch or what? Makes it inpossible
to see if someone posted recently.

"Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles appeared on yesterday's (04/25) 8AM hour. Here's the playlist of that hour -

8AM ET - Courtesy of rockman72584

Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle (Live DVD)
Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move
The Carpenters - Close To You

War - Why Can't We Be Friends
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
REO Speedwagon - Time For Me To Fly

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Live)
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl (Live)

James Taylor - Fire And Rain (2nd Live Version)
The Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love (Version 2)

AC/DC & Pink Floyd notwithstanding, this looked like an old POP SHOW hour.

'ringo

I haven't seen it in awhile I'm sure it turns up every now and again. If you want to see it done live catch the Original Asia Tour if it comes through your town. Geoff Downes was with the Buggles before Yes and Asia and the band plays a tune from each members' other bands in the set and they really do a fun version of VKTRS.

First Trisha, please use spell checker or have someone proofread your
posts. To answer your question, your song is more than likely "Safety
dance" by Men Without Hats. It contains the opening line, "You can
dance if you want to".

i ahve a bet with someone, he says talking heads did the sonf "you can dance if you wanr to " but i cant think of the actual singer of the song ... i remember the vidie having ti do do with the singer thr flute player playing the pipe piper playing the one to get him to folow him out of toen folowing him out of town with the music .
can you settle this whole dolloe bet.
thank you
trisha true

yes. buggles' "V.K.T.R.S." was the 1st - I saw it in 1981 when MTV debuted.

Right, but what I'm saying is...that it was extremely RARE even back in the 1980's that MTV showed anything that heavy during the daytime, without it being part of some kind of metal program. They usually only showed Iron Maiden during Headbangers Ball, or even in the early days when MTV had "Heavy Metal Half Hour" (which back then came on weekdays around 3pm central time?!). Although I do recall one evening back in the late 80's, MTV played "Watch The Children Pray" by Metal Church during their normal evening pop line-ups. It was probably an oversight on their part, but I was certainly pleased:)!

One of the last known appearances of "Video Killed The Radio Star" was 10/29/07.

Besides "Wrathchild," the video for "Iron Maiden" was also seen on the FIRST DAY OF MTV Special. "Iron Maiden" has been seen again at least once this year - see 01/26 ONGOING PLAYLIST.

LATAH From 'ringo

It usually is showed quite abit, but I don't recall seeing it in the
last three months or so.

Yeah, the video still exists. The question is...does VH-1 Classis ever show videos (lol!)?! It's hard enough to find ANY video you want to see nowadays with all the b.s. programming they have on there now. I remember a while back when VH1 Classis actually showed the entire first day of MTV...HOLY S&%T, WHAT A LINE-UP!!! They even showed old-school Iron Maiden (the video for the song "Wrathchild") the first day MTV aired!!! I never knew they even played anything that heavy during the day time EVER!!! But yeah, that video does exist...