10/5/2023 0 Comments Elephant Parts popclipsThey aired a longer version of the show one Saturday night. ![]() They thought instead of airing those repeats they could air new episodes of Television Parts. You see every once in awhile they would have to air a repeat of Saturday Night Live. It wasn’t doing well in the ratings but NBC thought it might do well later at night. Brandon Tartikoff of NBC bought “Michael Nesmith in Television Parts” and aired it at 8pm from Jto July of 1985. Television has always capitalized on other successes and NBC asked for a TV version of Elephant Parts. The Monkees former director James Frawley said “I think if you’re a Monkees fan and you look at Elephant Parts you’ll see a lot of throwbacks to what we were doing in the Sixties.” In his own way Nesmith paid homage to his own Monkees past. It also won him the first Grammy for a video album and got him inducted into the Hall of Fame by the American Video Awards. All of Nesmith’s video clips put together made up the video album Elephant Parts. If clearly seen all these parts put together make up an elephant. The third feels the trunk and says no it is a hose. ![]() Another touches the tail and says no it is a rope. One man touches the leg of the elephant and describes it as a tree. This became the first video album called “Elephant Parts.” The title harkens back to an old joke. It is that TV show that eventually became MTV.Ĭontinuing his interest in video Nesmith took his previous music videos and combined them with new comedy segments he produced and starred in. In 1981 he produced a show for Warner Amex’s cable station Nickelodeon called Popclips. Nesmith said “I can tell you that there’s plenty of evidence to show that the next Beatles are going to be on video record, plain and simple.” He was so convinced that video was the way to go that Pacific Arts stopped producing audio only projects and concentrated on video projects. His company, Pacific Arts, began producing videos for artist like Kim Carnes, Juice Newton, Lionel Ritchie etc. His interest in the fast growing video technology became more intense. ![]() In the long run he nearly single handedly created the music video business and MTV. He produced a mini-musical that in the 70’s would have blown your mind. Back then a clip was only that of the performer standing there singing or lip synching to the song. His distributors in Europe wanted a promotional clip. In 1976 Mike Nesmith had a song called “Rio” that he needed to promote.
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