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The first country music video came out in 1983, with Faron Young singing “It’s Four in the Morning.” For country music artists, and their fans, it was a whole new world of enjoying music. Country music videos have evolved in the decades since then, but it’s the ones from the first decade of videos that are still our favorite.
Keep reading to find four vintage country music videos from the 1980s that are aging like fine whiskey.
1. “Forever and Ever, Amen” by Randy Travis
Travis embodies his hit love song, “Forever and Ever, Amen,” in the video for his hit single. The song was released in 1987, on Travis’s Always & Forever album. Travis stars in the wedding-themed video as a groom, a fitting setting since the song has likely been used in countless weddings since then.
Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz wrote “Forever and Ever, Amen,” which was inspired by Schlitz’s young son’s nighttime prayers.
“Mommy, I love you forever and ever, amen,” Schlitz told Overstreet (via American Songwriter).
Watch the video here.
2. “Whoever’s In New England” by Reba McEntire
Since the beginning of videos, Reba McEntire has been a big fan, creating entire storylines multiple times. So it stands to reason that when she released “Whoever’s In New England” in 1986, a story about a woman in love with a man having an affair with a woman in Boston, that she would also release a telling video as well.
Interestingly, “Whoever’s In New England” says in part, “When whoever’s in New England is through with you / And Boston finds better things to do / You know it’s not too late / ‘Cause you’ll always have a place to come back to / When whoever’s in New England is through with you.” McEntire chose to film the video in Boston. It was a bold choice, even back then. Due to budget constraints, most country music videos were filmed in Nashville.
“Whoever’s In New England” is McEntire’s first video ever, an early telling of her abilities as an actress.
3. “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days)” by The Judds
When The Judds released “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days)” in 1986, they were missing the days gone by, which is what inspired the song. Written by Jamie O’Hara, the video shows Wynonna Judd living a fast-paced life, while longing for simpler times.
“I thought it was so much my song because it says, ‘Did families really bow their heads to pray, did daddies really never go away,'” Naomi Judd says (via Songfacts). “And I’m standing there singing the song with Wynonna, and she never knew her dad. And my daddy was gone before we wrote this song, so the audience didn’t know that there’s this ghost, this third person standing there with us when we’re talking about our grandpas and all that. … It was sort of another topical song for me besides being so old-fashioned going back to and admiring family values.
“I’m not for progress,” she adds. “Our world is way too technological for me. I don’t do Facebook. I do face to face.”
4. “The Chair” by George Strait
Few videos bring a song to life like George Strait does with “The Chair.” Out in 1985, Strait sings the song in a small club, as a series of women portray the person who is filling his chair, sparking a new romance.
Dean Dillon and Hank Cochran are the writers behind “The Chair.” The two were on a writing retreat, where they wrote several songs, including Keith Whitley’s “Miami, My Amy.” Little did they know that they were about to write a country music classic.
“By about four in the morning, I had drunk so much whiskey that I had actually drunk myself sober,” Dillon tells Texas Monthly. “I didn’t know you could do that, but I did it. I was tired though, and it was four in the morning again, like it always seemed to be for me and Hank.
“And I don’t know what happened, but then Hank sat down in a chair across from me, and I looked at him, picked up the guitar, struck a G chord, and started singing, ‘Well, excuse me, but I think you’ve got my chair,'” he continues. “And he said, ‘Have you written that song?’ I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Well, we’re about to.’ And 45 minutes later, we’d written ‘The Chair.'”
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