Popcorn (instrumental piece)

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Popcorn is an instrumental piece from the early synth pop era. The name is derived from the short staccato sound used for the melody.

The piece was composed by Gershon Kingsley , who recorded it for the first time in 1969 for his album Music to Moog By , at the time still written Pop Corn . In 1971 keyboardist Stan Free took it up again under the pseudonym Hot Butter and it was able to place in the charts in 1972. The record was one of the music releases that, based on the Moog synthesizer , were characteristic of the synth-pop of the 1960s and 1970s.

Popcorn has been made over the years by numerous artists such as Marsheaux , Aphex Twin , Jean Michel Jarre , Ricky King , Denki Groove , Gigi D'Agostino , Guru Josh , Crazy Frog , E-Rotic , Edward Simoni , Fiddler's Green , Muse , the GlasBlasSing Quintet as well as Jack Holiday & Mike Candys covered.

Use in movies

Use on television

  • Intro in the science programs of the Telekolleg
  • The theme of the Michigan State Lottery lottery number television draw in the 1970s
  • Spanish commercial for the Renault Clio
  • Background music in a Pampers commercial in the USA (2001)
  • The leitmotif of the educational children's program Snipets in the early 1970s
  • Background music for a Nippon chocolate bar commercial in Germany (2006)
  • Commercial for the food supplement Vita-Gerin Geistlich (2002)
  • Background music on RBB news broadcasts (2008)
  • Interpretation of the piece by the Danish cook of the Muppet Show (2010)

Other uses

For decades (1970s to 1990s) in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, popcorn was the theme music for demonstrations of the Gotthard massif model railroad layout .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at Discogs: Gershon Kingsley - Music To Moog By
  2. ↑ Hot Butter: Popcorn , hitparade.ch
  3. ↑ InfoDisc: Les 45 T. / Singles les plus vendus en France. June 1, 2014, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://musikradar.de/soundtrack-schneemann/

Web links

  • www.popcorn-song.com Fansite with audio samples of many cover versions and a story of the piece (English)