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J.J. Jackson was the oldest and most experienced of the original MTV VJs, having started his radio career at Boston’s WBCN in the '60s. He then moved to the L.A. station KLOS, where he stayed ...
Sharon Gomes Thomas - MTV News; Alan M. Wong (Singapore) - MTV; Rita Tsang (British Chinese)- MTV News; Daniel Mananta (Indonesia) Belinda Lee Xin Yu (Singapore) Danny McGill (USA) Original VJ of the first Incarnation of MTV Asia, moved to Channel V and moved back to MTV Asia/MTV India (Second Incarnation) Anu Kottoor (India) [5] Zarina Safuan ...
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
He was the bridge between the burgeoning uptown rap scene and the downtown No Wave art scene. He gained wider recognition in 1981 when Debbie Harry rapped on the Blondie song "Rapture" that "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly." In the late 1980s, Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps. [2] [3]
Two days later Quinn got the news she was an MTV VJ. [3] Quinn joined Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and J. J. Jackson as original faces and voices of MTV. Being hosts of the nation's first music television network provided them with an in-depth and up-close perspective on the most popular rock/pop music and artists of the 1980s.
Mark Goodman (born October 11, 1952) is an American radio host, TV personality and actor. He is best known as one of the original five video jockeys (VJs), along with Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson and Martha Quinn, on the music network MTV, from 1981 to 1987.
Second video to feature both black and white artists to air on MTV 73 "More Than I Can Say" Leo Sayer: 1/2 74 "A Message to You, Rudy" The Specials: 1/1 75 "In the Air Tonight" Phil Collins: 2/5 76 "Heart of Glass" Blondie: 1/1 77 "Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" Rod Stewart: 1/2 78 "Kid" The Pretenders: 1/1 79 "Wrathchild" Iron Maiden: 2/4 80
Music Television popularized the term in the 1980s (see List of MTV VJs). The MTV founders got their idea for their VJ host personalities from studying Merrill Aldighieri's club. [1] Aldighieri worked in the New York City nightclub Hurrah, which was the first to make a video installation as a prominent featured component of the club's design ...