Time For A Tune, Daddy!

Here's a 1951 Snader Telescription of a perfomance of "Daddy" by the Bobby Troup Trio with Virginia Maxey.  Bobby composed this song, which a decade earlier, was a hit for Sammy Kaye and his Swing and Sway Orchestra.  Unlike the 1940s Soundies, which were originally filmed to be shown on coin-operated "video" jukeboxes called Panorams, Snader Telescriptions were filmed for airing on television stations in the early 1950s, when they needed programming to fill air time.

Skilled Craftsman At Work

In this filmed Snader Telescription from 1951, here is Myron Floren playing "Lady of Spain," along with Lawrence Welk's Champagne Music Makers.







These Snader films were like Soundies, only that in this case, these films were syndicated to local television stations.

You might say they were the first music videos made for television.