Video duration: 118 seconds
Global video hits: 5241
John Thain, who led NYSE Euronext for four-years, is leaving his job to take over the top spot at Merrill Lynch. His experience, which includes an executive position at Goldman Sachs, will come in handy, many analysts said. Thain now has to put the pieces back together after bad bets prompted Merrill Lynch to announce the biggest quarterly loss in its history.
Video duration: 111 seconds
Global video hits: 60799
Helen Merrill, Merv Griffin and Carroll O'Connor having a loose vocal jam session on "what is this thing called love?". The great Roger Kellaway accompanies on keyboards.
Video duration: 260 seconds
Global video hits: 22933
Eric Schmidt and Douglas Merrill Talk about the Dogfood project, where Google uses the Google Apps suite of tools for the internal running of the company.
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Video duration: 60 seconds
Global video hits: 2515
New York area commercial for a technical training school (institute!) that played for many years usually midday and late at night when its target audience would likely be viewing. If you are older than 30 you will remember this one.
Video duration: 213 seconds
Global video hits: 3494
Alan Merrill's 1985 Hard Hearted Woman video, the first single release from his Polydor solo album. The actresses are Joan Hastings as the brunette, and Kathleen Vigeland the blonde.
Note: Alan Merrill played all the instruments and did all the voices (lead and background) on this track.
Vid trivia: A young pre-fame Will Smith attended this 1984 Adam Friedman produced video shoot.