Back in the late 80s, I recall an Eagle Eye Cherry music video pretending to do this, but with obvious cuts when the camera moved behind an amplifier of the like.
Not the best song from the excellent Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but here’s one:
Portuguese singer David Fonseca shot this in one take, then ran it backwards for the official video:
I mean, after I started paying attention to this, a new video is released. It wasn’t know that Weird Al would parody Happy, or that he would also do a one-shot.
One take, and one stationary camera :
It was meant to look that way, but Pop Up Video taught us that there were at least a couple of different cuts in that video.
Smashing Pumpkins’ Ava Adore has a one take look to it (not sure if it was actually pulled off in one take). At the middle of the video the camera spins and shows the camera dolly tracks to intentionally show off how they constructed it.
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Has it ever been shown that “Come As You Are” by Peter Wolf isn’t a single take? I doubt it myself.
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That Peter Wolf video was a homage to this one-take dance scene from the 50s MGM musical Small Town Girl. More than 20 years after the Wolf’s “Come As You Are”, Goldfrapp also did a homage to that scene forthe video for "Happiness". Like Wolf’s video, “Happiness” tried to give the appearance of being shot in one take but there are some necessary subtle cuts used for reasons that will become apparent if you pay close attention to the lead singer Alison Goldfrapp during the video.
As for another one-take music video, there’s “You Don’t Know How It Feels” by Tom Petty.