I was 17 and decided I wanted to be a DJ, managed to get a once-a-week gig at the local youth club. This was my intro each week, I'm 70 now but falling down the RU-vid rabbit hole and finding this is just gold :)
Who is here because for absolutely no reason at all this song popped up into your brain for the first time since 1970 and you instantly even remembered the name?
I'm here because my wife is part Swedish and said she is making me some traditional Swedish foods when I get home. Then I found the video of the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show making popcorn. He starts jamming out to this song. So I quizzed my wife and she didn't know the song. Full circle.
I remember hearing it back then. Here is what I found - Popcorn is a famous early synth pop instrumental, originally recorded by Gershon Kingsley. In 1972, it was a huge hit in many countries when it was rerecorded by Hot Butter.
I just saw the gameplay of a game called "Old Towers" and there was this song. You can't imagine how happy I was to know that this song wasn't a delirium in my head lol
I am Japanese, and in the 1990s, my father used to take me to an arcade where this song was frequently played. About 10 years ago, it was also playing in a lonely game corner of a supermarket in the countryside. I miss those days.
DOS game "Digger" had it as a sound track. In USSR one of episodes of popular cartoon "Nu pogodi" used it too. So i guess it is right to say that it is pretty unversally nostalgic song.
@Giuseppe Delorenzo PLEASE.... live on. i get your happiness for finding a song/tune you like and your comment and all. But, still. Live on. Be safe. Peace and prosper to You and all your family and friends. Yes I was a bit "drunk" as writing this but anyway.
This version was recorded in 2006, which makes it younger than the Crazy Frog version. The original was recorded in 1969 by Gershon Kingsley for his album 'Music To Moog By' 'Moog' refers to the Moog Synthesizer, a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog, upon which the song was originally played Something to consider is Telstar, recorded in 1962 by The Tornadoes, used a Clavioline. The Clavioline was an electrinoc keyboard that paved the way for analogue and digital synthesizers So while a far cry from Eisenfunk, electronic synth pop really began in the 1960s
Our music teacher in grade school used to put this on at the end of class and we had to do a crazy dance like we were popcorn that was popping. It caused a lot of injuries but we did it with her for 4 years until this kid named Kyle got knocked over into a cupboard and broke his tooth. Memories ❤️
lol used to do the same thing in school ( man that's going back a long time). I was browsing youtube and come across this song and i was thinking where have i heard that before, then it hit me lol back in school
Very first album I ever bought. It was 1970, and I was 7 years old. I immediately took it to my best friend's house, and after replaying for 40 minutes straight, his sister ripped it off the phonograph and broke it. good times.
It was on one the first albums I was ever given. I think it was called Hits for Kids maybe in about 1980 or so. I also remember getting a tape for Christmas at around the same time as that called Disco classics that was full of crap but did have a really excellent cover of Le Freak. I loved that song.
Song title (original): Pop Corn Song meaning (original): pop music is kitsch Songwriter: Gershon Kingsley (28 October 1922 to 10 December 2019) Year of initial release: 1969; released first on an album and then as a single - both in 1969. Album: 'Music to Moog By' (1969); 'Moog' referring to engineer and pioneer of electronic music Robert Moog. Most famous cover version by: 'Hot Butter' in 1972; also covered by a large number of other musicians/bands. My location: Sydney, Australia Time: 6:26pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time Day and date: Saturday 17 October 2020 Views: 14,935,309 Likes and dislikes: 109,760 and 4,241 Comments (including mine): 8,399
Fun fact, Moog is the nick name of Australian composer, musician, producer, and film maker Blair Jocelyne. co creator of the youtube channel Mighty Car Mods. Don't need to explain why his nick name is Moog.
This was our wedding song, our 1st dance as a married couple. Ahh, memories. Brings a tear to my eye with every alimony check I write, and when I hear this song.
JIeksik My two-year-old son yells out "nu bagazi" (he says "pa" for "ba" right now and I guess thinks the "da" is a "za") whenever he hears this song (he's half Russian). Very cute :)
@@kelionnoldo8251 No. Actually some Soviet cartoons were aired in Brazil when I was a kid, in an educational TV channel owned by the government. Nu Pogodi I only knew about 12 years ago looking for Soviet animation on RU-vid.
I never get tired of hearing that familiar " crackle" as the needle makes contact with a vynal record. This music was way ahead of its time. I remember when it first came out.
This song was stucked in my head for the longest time. I heard it in a VHS I had of the cartoon called "Ну, погоди!". Thing is I am from Belgium and I didn't even know it was russian. I guess my father just bought it in a flea market or something. Then I had to check on internet about an old cartoon with a wolf and a rabbit and then once I had the name I watched random episodes of it on RU-vid until I heard this song. Last thing, I used Shazam to finally arrived here. I'm so thankfull !
@@KirikkSiSq is what I thought. May be Bib Bib from Belgium meant just the cartoon was Russian, rather than the song. In my enthusiasm at reading the article to a well-loved song I added my two-pennyworth, as we say in England. But thanks for clarifying.
In mumbai, the heavily decorated curtains in the cinema theater would slowly rise in sync with this music and reach the top at the end of the song! It is used to be mesmerizing for a ten year old in 1973
Yeah I've heard something like this in old movies. I was born in 90s but i don't know why this song feels so nostalgic, like its from a previous life lol.
this song was featured in one of the scarce child cartoons of soviet russia which was broadcasted for many decades so of course many russians feel nostalgic about this song
I played this song in my piano because it was stuck in my head, then my mom walked by and she told me this was a song she remembers from her childhood and didn't know the name of. I am glad I could make her remember a piece of her childhood.
Uhm... Sure, the more familiar version by Hot Butter are from 1972. This version here is not by Hot Butter. Nor is it the original, as stated. The 1969 original version is a Moog masterpiece. Awesome track.
My son used to get dressed to this music ...way back in 1975... it was the only way to get him ready for school in time, in the mornings! best song for putting socks and shoes on quick... lol still lovable!
I didn't even realise Tove Lo's To Die For was based on an old track like this, I've literally never heard this before...goes to show how much variety there was on the radio when I still listened to it I guess ^^"
John Baker my goodness it does .! I don't know? But this sounds totally different now than I did when I was kid listening to it on the radio in the mid seventies " funny how you remember particular songs differently .
+THE psycho Anarchic System, 1972, the same year as what a lot of people consider as the 'original'. Though that is actually Gershon Kingsley's version from 1969. So, this just one of a rash of versions from 1972 on the back of the success of Hot Butter's most commonly played. Though this is probably my favourite version :)
+conrick Yes, good point. The French seemed to have a gift of making synths sound timeless. edit : Though the version of this with the vocal maybe not so much :D
Wow! I listened to this 45 as a little girl. I have been searching for it and finally found it as it was imbedded deep in my memory. I still love this tune even after 50!
This is not the original song. The original song was written and performed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969. This is a cover version by Anarchic Systems from 1972. Just to be accurate.
@@joenie My Dear Friend, That is what was called a 45 RPM record single. On other devices there could be a spindle in the center, stack as many 45's it could hold then the device would automatically cycle the records through. In the last 100 years recording has come a long way, from the cylinder of Edison's to MP3. There were also 78"s, 33's, and others for studio use. This recording was one of the first attempts at total electronic synthesized reproduction. Another piece that was made I think by Maxwell House coffee to the sound of a percolator.
