AMV's and old sources - What's the oldest song used in an AMV?

This is a bit of a silly and unscheduled post, but I hope you enjoy.

The other night I had a stray thought that wouldn’t leave me alone until I did some digging - what is the oldest song that someone has edited an AMV with? Now, the easy answer to that question is classical music - there are several edits which use Beethoven and Mozart for a start, which already dates us back to the 1700’s.

However, this answer does not really satisfy me. There is a huge difference between a classical composition designed to be performed by an orchestra versus something that could be considered simply a song. So to put some arbitrary restrictions on myself I decided for the purposes of this quest I would define a song as a piece of music that was recorded by the original artist which could be bought by the general public as a stand alone record, and just generally feels like a song rather than an orchestral piece.

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