Primary Sources- Hot Butter "Popcorn"

Let's go wayyyy back to the first synthpop song most people heard and clearly one of the first electronic top 40 hits, back in 1972!


Here is an updated version from Marsheaux


Of course nothing is ever simple, in doing research I found that Hot Butter was not the first "band" to record the song. Here is what Wikipedia has to say
"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. "

A Different Drum has the CD with Marsheaux's version.


Also there seems to be a verison by Crazy Frog, here is one band's interpretation....


And the "original" crazy frog


ok, that's enough....

Amazon has the Moog soundtrack, worht picking up and not just for the Hot Butter version of Popcorn