The Fabulous 60's

1965. While "Stranger in Paradise" played, Tony Bennett was having a walk along The Serpentine in Hyde Park in London. If all of this had not been filmed and played by UK and US television stations, Tony wouldn’t have claimed he made the first music video. Only then, music videos were called promos and had the purpose to simply promote.
The early age of music videos dates back to the beginning of the last century when "visual music" appeared - the animated films of Oskar Fischinger supplied with orchestral scores.
The pioneering full-color music video for The Exciters' "Tell Him" from 1962 greatly influenced all that came afterwards.The defining work in the development of the modern music video was The Beatles' first major motion picture, A Hard Day's Night in 1964, directed by Richard Lester. The musical segments in this film arguably set out the basic visual vocabulary of today's music videos, influencing a vast number of contemporary musicians, and countless subsequent pop and rock group music videos. Also in 1966 the clip of Bob Dylan performing "Subterranean Homesick Blues" filmed by D A Pennebaker was much used.. Other pioneering music videos made during this time include the promotional films made by The Doors.
When released in 1968, the animated film Yellow Submarine was an international sensation. Soon it was commonplace for artists to make promotional films, and bands like The Byrds and The Beach Boys were also making promotional films.
The promotional clip continued to grow in importance, with television programs such as The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert mixing concert footage with clips incorporating camera tricks, special effects, and dramatizations of song lyrics.
Other important contributions to the development of the genre include the film of the Woodstock Festival, and the various concert films that were made during the early Seventies, most notably Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs And Englishmen and particularly Pink Floyd's groundbreaking Live at Pompeii concert film, which featured sophisticated rhythmic cross-cutting.
Also during this time,David Bowie released his video for Space Oddity. Although these "film clips" were often aired on pop music TV shows, they were still considered as secondary at that time, with live or mimed performances generally given precedence.

I will now take you back to the beginnings of the modern videos, to The Fabulous 60’s.

The Beatles - And I Love Her

A Hard Day's Night in 1964
"And I Love Her" is a song by The Beatles and is the fifth track on their third album, A Hard Day's Night. It was released 20 July 1964 with "If I Fell" as a single by Capitol Records in the United States, reaching #12 in .

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The Doors - Unknown Soldier

"The Unknown Soldier" is the first single from The Doors' 1968 album Waiting for the Sun, and was also the subject of one of the bands few, inventive music videos. ´The song is Jim Morrisons reaction to the Vietnam War and the way this conflict was portrayed in American media at the time.

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The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

"All Day and All of the Night" was a hit 1964 rock song by the British Invasion band The Kinks. It reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 on the United States Charts.

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The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

"Paint It, Black" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966. It reached number one in both the U.S. and the UK charts. It was released as a single and on the U.S. version of the album, Aftermath.

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The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be nice

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is the opening track on the classic 1966 album Pet Sounds and one of the most widely recognized songs by the American pop group The Beach Boys. It was composed and produced by Brian Wilson, with lyrics by Tony Asher, and the lead vocal was sung by Brian Wilson with Mike Love singing lead vocals on the bridge.


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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written by folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which is notable for the number of times it has been covered by different artists in different genres, most famously, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's harder, more dynamic and electric psychedelic rock version from their Electric Ladyland album.

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Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song written by Bob Dylan, originally released on the album Bringing It All Back Home in March 1965. The following month it was issued as a single, becoming his first Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit and going Top 10 in the UK. It was subsequently re-released on numerous compilations such as Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967). One of Dylan's first 'electric' pieces, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was also notable for its innovative film clip, which first appeared in D. A. Pennebaker's documentary, Dont Look Back.

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Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
"Can't Help Falling in Love," by George Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, is a pop song based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean-Paul Egide Martini. It was rewritten for the 1961 film Blue Hawaii, starring Elvis Presley.

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The Zombies -Tell Her No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-kM0TQN4Kk
The 1965 appearance of the Zombies musical group performing "Tell Her No" on the show Shindig.
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The Velvet Underground-Sunday Morning
"Sunday Morning" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It is the opening track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground and Nico. It was also released as a single in 1966 with "Femme Fatale".

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The Byrds - Eight miles high
"Eight Miles High" is a song by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first appearing as a single from 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was included as well on their album Fifth Dimension, released on July 18, 1966. In tandem with its b-side, "Why," written by McGuinn and Crosby, the song was instrumental in fomenting a new strain of rock and roll in the mid-1960s, that of psychedelic rock.

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The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
“Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus for the singer/pianist Nina Simone, who first recorded it on Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964).
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" has been covered by many artists, and is better known to most people by the version performed by The Animals, who turned it into a rock song. This version was ranked by Rolling Stone at #315 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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The Mamas And Papas - California Dreamin
"California Dreamin'" is a song by The Mamas & the Papas, first released in 1965.
The song was written in 1963 by John and Michelle Phillips while they were living in New York, inspired by Michelle's home sickness for California. At the time, the Phillipses were members of the folk group The New Journeymen which evolved into The Mamas and the Papas.

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Sonny & Cher- I Got You Babe
Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the song for himself and his wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. Noted session drummer Hal Blaine performed the drums for the song. Bono was inspired to write the song to capitalize on the popularity of the term "babe," as heard in Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" which was a hit for The Turtles.

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Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
This video is from the movie Roy Orbison - Black & White Night. Featuring:
Jackson Brown, T Bone Burnnett, Elvis Costello, K D Lang, Bonnie Raite, J D Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Jennifer Warnes.

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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
“Mrs. Robinson” is a song written by Paul Simon and first performed by Simon and Garfunkel. When released as a single, it hit number one in the U.S., their second hit after "The Sound of Silence". An early version of the song appears in the motion picture The Graduate (1967) and its subsequent soundtrack, while the complete song debuts on their album Bookends (1968).

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Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
"Do Wah Diddy Diddy" is a song notably performed by 1960s British R&B, Beat and Pop band Manfred Mann. The song was originally performed in 1963 by the American band The Exciters, originally written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Manfred Mann's version was recorded on June 11 1964, was released on July 10 and spent two weeks in August at number one in the UK singles chart and in October of that year it spent two weeks at the number one spot in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The song would later achieve worldwide fame when it was performed by Jesse and the Rippers on Full House, sometimes in medley with The Beach Boys' Kokomo.

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Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Although initially offered to other bands, Born to be Wild was first recorded by the Canadian rock band, Steppenwolf. This is the band's second and most successful single, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts.

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The Supremes - Baby Love
"Baby Love" is a 1964 number-one hit recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, "Baby Love," one of the most popular songs of the late 20th century, was the Supremes' most successful single. It was the number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for four weeks, from October 25, 1964 to November 21, 1964. It was also the second of five Supremes songs in a row to go to number one (the others are "Where Did Our Love Go," "Come See About Me," "Stop! In the Name of Love," and "Back in My Arms Again").

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Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking
“These Boots Are Made for Walkin” is a pop song composed by Lee Hazlewood and first recorded by Nancy Sinatra. It was released in February, 1966, and hit #1 in the United States and United Kingdom Pop charts. Subsequently, many cover versions of the song have been released in a range of styles: pop, rock, country, dance, and industrial.

*Thanks to Wikipedia for the info