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Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn ( 1969 )

submitted by Farhad2000

1 decade 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago

"Popcorn" is a famous early synthpop instrumental. Composer Gershon Kingsley (of Perrey and Kingsley) first recorded it for his 1969 album Music to Moog By. In 1971 the song was re-recorded by Kingsley's band First Moog Quartet. Stan Free, member of the First Moog Quartet, rerecorded the instrumental with his band Hot Butter in 1972, which became the first primarily electronic-based piece of music to reach the American popular music charts. The record was one of a rash of Moog synthesizer-based releases that characterized "synth-pop" of the 1960s and 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_(instrumental)

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Yes yes I know it's not really obscure and it's appeared everywhere but frankly very few know that it's Gershon Kingsley original and think it's created by the stupid frog or Gigi Da Gistino.

See Gershon Kingsley himself perform Popcorn on a piano in 2007. A great version as well which is far more melancholy.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'retro, electro, synthpop, classic, beat, melody, Music to Moog By' to 'retro, electro, synthpop, classic, beat, melody, Music to Moog By, rko, trippy, 60s' - edited by Eklek

Isn't this supposedly the first song composed on/for a synthesizer? This version is very different from the one I'm familiar with - more lilty or something. I always thought Moog composed it himself. I heard him interviewed on "Fresh Air" years ago and they talked about this for a while.

Moving this video to Farhad2000's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Corner to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Farhad2000.

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Adding video to channels (Electronica) - requested by ant.

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