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Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:53 pm**

Equin(00)xe wrote:
Velodynamic wrote:My aunt has known Jarre's music as something ...and then she said: "Did you know that he is the one that made Popcorn?"

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really!!!!!!!!!!!

All those years going to the Cinema and i never realised that Jarre made it!

Not only is he a genius composer he also invents snackfoods!!!!!!!!Wow

That's a cool thing...it's like he didn't even need Hot Butter at all to make it.

...Hot Butter? ...WHO ARE THEY??

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:43 pm**

Hot Butter scored a major hit with Oxygene 4 in 1986. Doh.

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:50 pm**

1972

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:07 pm**

Hot Butter were the ladies who stole Jarre's hit "Pop Corn" even some years before Jarre released it

Posted: **Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:38 pm**

offtopic:
Well allright, but according to wikipedia this was the case:

"Hot Butter is an alias for the keyboard player Stan Free. He's best known under his alias for his 1971 cover of the Moog synthpop instrumental "Popcorn", originally by Gershon Kingsley in 1969."

H'nuff..?

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:56 am**

My mum, who was 72 when she passed away last August, always called him Jam Jar. From her that was a compliment

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:33 am**

JMJ joined Francis Dreyfus in 1972-73. During this this time he worked freelance for several artistes linked to the Dreyfus label one of which was 'The Popcorn Orchestra'. The group had recorded a cover version of the original Popcorn and JMJ helped with the re-recorded version (MT 4028). For this collaboration JMJ used the pseudonym Jammie Jefferson. This has led many fans to believe that the 1906 7" single "Cartolina" is JMJ working under the title of Jammie Jefferson; but there are few facts to back this up. Whatever the case JMJ wrote the music.

JMJ played Moog on Popcorn and wrote and played Moog on the (B) side called Blackbird. Blackbird is a piece of music very similar to 'Bridge of Promises' from the Deserted Palaces' album.

This is from www.kingsleysound.com -

Despite the wide range of music Gershon Kingsley has composed, he is most well-known for a 1972 instrumental dance hit called "Popcorn."

Kingsley recalls that he wrote the primary melody to "Popcorn" in about 30 seconds. The song was first released in 1969 as part of a Kingsley solo album called "Music To Moog By." Then the First Moog Quartet, while on their nation-wide tour of college and universities, used "Popcorn" as their encore song.

In 1972, "Popcorn" was recorded by a group of musicians under the band name Hot Butter. Stan Free, who was a member of the First Moog Quartet, played the Moog on this recording. More information on the recording is available here.

The song quickly became an international hit, with cover versions sprouting up all over the world. It hit Number 1 on the German charts and sold over one million copies in that country alone.

And unlike so many pop songs, it has not faded into history. Not at all. Cover versions of "Popcorn" have continued to show up. Most recently, an English group called the "Space Penguins" have used the "Popcorn" melody in their tune "The Electrofunk." It is also featured in the soundtracks of two recent movies, "Dick" and "Detroit Rock City."

And Kingsley himself, with the help of Producer Dave Baron, has remade "Popcorn" for an upcoming compilation on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label. Sharing the CD will be Beck, Sonic Youth, Jean-Jacques Perrey and many others.

This proves that Popcorn wasn't written by JMJ and that the version on which JMJ plays is a re-released version. And yes, i have got the version by Hot Butter and no it doesn't credit JMJ or Jammie Jefferson.

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:39 am**

We all knew that.

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:38 pm**

Indeed we did!!

Popcorn is/was made by Gershon Kingsley, and no one else!!!

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:45 pm**

amiga1 wrote:JMJ joined Francis Dreyfus in 1972-73. During this this time he worked freelance for several artistes linked to the Dreyfus label one of which was 'The Popcorn Orchestra'. The group had recorded a cover version of the original Popcorn and JMJ helped with the re-recorded version (MT 4028). For this collaboration JMJ used the pseudonym Jammie Jefferson. This has led many fans to believe that the 1906 7" single "Cartolina" is JMJ working under the title of Jammie Jefferson; but there are few facts to back this up. Whatever the case JMJ wrote the music.

HMM?

Both (the cover of) Popcorn and Cartolina are JMJ's solo works. No collaboration involved here.

Posted: **Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:19 pm**

Back on topic will you? If you have to talk about Popcorn and Hot butter do that in another thread.

Love Leelene

Posted: **Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:59 am**

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