vh1 classic video ID?

no one? u_u

remember any lyrics from the song?

no, but iirc it was a love song to a girl... midtempo, standard guitar/bass/drums stuff with white guy musicians. (i know, that totally differentiates it from every other video vh1 classic plays.)

i was lurking on the vh1 classic message boards (no help so far) and i thought these couple of posts were interesting...

I was converting some old tapes to DVD, and came across 4 hours of MTV from November, 1981. Surprisingly, the tape has held up extremely well for 25 years, and I was able to make an excellent quality conversion, but I noticed a few things:
*The videos played in November were not a lot different from what was recently aired on the first day special. There's a few different ones-nothing extremely rare for VH1C viewers, but Rod Stewart, REO Speedwagon, and The Pretenders are well represented.
*The chyrons are in a completely different font than I remember.
*There were very few commercials, and most of those were not for national advertisers, they were for mail order stuff.
*There may be a good reason why the VJ segments were not aired during the recent special. They looked like deer in the headlights most of the time. Here it was several months into the launch, and they all either looked stoned or scared to death. It appears as though they may have been given 'bullet points' to cover during MTV News, as much of that was stumbled through awkwardly.
*They showed that 'space' public domain footage with the generic music a lot for some reason, as it's on the tape several times.
Just a few observations there. If anyone's really interested in seeing this, contact me through my MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/lostsongsofthe80s
(which may hold some interest for some of you, by the way)

and then someone else wrote:

As I said before, it looks like MTV was unable to get a lot of music videos their first year. That would explain why they would have a lot of some acts and be missing many other acts. MTV was supposedly only on one cable system in N.J. which would make them nothing more than a local channel [ even less as only cable customers could pick them up ] and there was just no incentive for record labels to send them any videos. Syndicated shows like America's Top 10 where available on broadcast signals in every market which is why that show was able to get any video they needed from day 1. MTV was having the same problems that any public access video show would have, only able to get the leftovers of promotional videos or the few that some promotional department had made too many copies of. As MTV began to be added to more cable systems the record labels made more videos available to them. By the late 80's record labels would send new videos over without MTV asking. It is a shame that by the 90's they could get any video they wanted but instead decided to limit the videos they aired. It is also a miracle that MTV was able to survive their first few months with only a couple of days worth of programming.

As for advertisers, why would Pepsi want to advertise on a channel that only a few hundred people could get? If they got Slim Whitman or Ginsu Knives as sponsors then they were lucky. When MTV2 first started airing commercials all they could get was Ms Cleo as a sponsor.

The reason why the VJs looked like deers in the headlights is because they were either reading cue cards or off of a teleprompter. They were looking at text just below the camera lense and trying to read it. It was a little later that they decided to let their VJs improvise. Unfortunately later VJs who improvised did not know how to shut up or had anything interesting to say.

The public domain footage was most likely put there so that any cable outlets that were carrying them could add their own commercials. Television networks and syndicated shows do the same thing, although instead of public domain footage they air public service announcements. If you ever see a lot of public service announcements on a television show [ usually late night ] that means that the local channel was unable to sell that time to sponsors.

oh, mystery solved: the video is "she sheila" by the producers (i did a little convoluted detective work to figure this out). it might be a slightly different cut of the video because i remember there being more of the pan-pacific (you don't see it here until around the 2-minute mark). but i was drunk when i first saw it, and i think it aired late at night.

http://www.theproducers.org/video/SheSheila.mov

I love one-person threads.

The Producers were fairly big in my hometown (Norfolk), maybe in part 'cause they were from Atlanta. I dunno if even "fairly big" is accurate -- let's just say they got some airplay on one of the huge FM rockers.