I'm going to work my way backwards through Facebook's confusing system and try to get all the videos Eric has posted for his Song of the Month series. Today's month is August 2021, and the song is Video Killed the Radio Star.
Aug 1st - Song of the Month, Day 1: New month, new song! So, in honor of the fortieth (!) anniversary of the debut of MTV, here is the first video they played (back when MTV played music videos):
Aug 2nd - Song of the Month, Day 2: The Buggles weren't the only group to have a hit with "Video Killed the Radio Star"...
Aug 3rd - Song of the Month, Day 3: One of my favorite cover bands does our song:
Aug 4th - Song the Month, Day 4: My OTHER favorite cover band also did a version of our song, with a special guest vocalist!
Aug 5th - Song of the Month, Day 5:
Aug 6th - Song of the Month, Day 6: Wait, Pentatonix did a version? Hey, they did!
Aug 7th - Song of the Month, Day 7: This one needs a little background. When British Telecom introduced a service that could turn a text message into speech (so that you could text someone even if they didn't have a cell phone), they used Tom Baker, the fourth and longest-serving actor to play "Doctor Who", as the voice. Pretty quickly, people figured out that, with a little modulation with punctuation, you could make Tom say just about anything with some rudimentary inflection. So of course they put his voice to karaoke tracks. Here, then, is Tom Baker singing (sort of) "Video Killed the Radio Star"!
Aug 8th - Song of the Month, Day 8: The Buggles on "Top of the Pops"!
Aug 9th - Song of the Month, Day 9: Well this one is from an unusual perspective…
Aug 10th - Song of the Month, Day 10:
Aug 11th - Song of the Month, Day 11:
Aug 12th - Song of the Month, Day 12: Say, we haven't heard from the Presidents on this song lately…
Aug 13th - Song of the Month, Day 13: Hey, another big star does a cover!
Aug 14th - Song of the Month, Day 14: Well here's a surprise: An acoustic version!
Aug 15th - Song of the Month, Day 15: Another celebrity cover (although this is a celebrity most Americans will not be familiar with).
Aug 16th - Song of the Month, Day 16:
Aug 17th - Song of the Month, Day 17: Well of course there's a choral cover!
Aug 18th - Song of the Month, Day 18:
Aug 19th - Song of the Month, Day 19: Thank you, Michael A. Burstein, for finding this one!
Aug 20th - Song of the Month, Day 20:
Aug 21st - Song of the Month, Day 21: Long before there even WAS video, it might have sounded like this.
Aug 22nd - Song of the Month, Day 22: The ska version!
Aug 23rd - Song of the Month, Day 23: We all have to do something during quarantine…
Aug 24th - Song of the Month, Day 24: The rock guitar cover!
Aug 25th - Song of the Month, Day 25: Well this is different!
Aug 26th - Song of the Month, Day 26: Well of course Pentatonix did a version!
Aug 27th - Song of the Month, Day 27: I almost forgot to include an ASL interpretation!
Aug 28th - Song of the Month, Day 28: Hey, how about a little behind-the-scenes knowledge with one of the original MTV VJ's?
Aug 29th - Song of the Month, Day 29: Well here's one of the LAST bands I would ever expect to cover this song. But it works!
Aug 30th - Song of the Month, Day 30: We're going to wrap the month up with some latter-day performances by the reassembled Buggles. Here's one at a Hans Zimmer concert:
Aug 31st - Song of the Month, Day 31:
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