Videos from MTV's First Day
By The Top 13 | February 8, 2010
MTV debuted on a select few cable systems on August 1, 1981 with a limited roster of videos to choose from. Indeed, of the 62 videos that aired on that first day, five were from Rod Stewart (and they weren't songs from one of his better periods) and four were from REO Speedwagon. Nevertheless, a number of the videos introduced that day by Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, and the other original MTV VJs turned out to be iconic or were for fantastic songs, or both. We recently went back and watched each of the videos that MTV aired that day and present to you the Top 13 Videos from MTV's First Day.
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