Popcorn in 13 versions (chronological evolution)
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2015
- Popcorn is the most famous electric and in general song on the world. This song has played many artists. Composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969, name of the song is probably according to snapping sound of popcorn.
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See also the version by orchestra of ČSSR TV: czcams.com/video/kz1LjtWcXv0/video.html
and the final version from the composer: czcams.com/video/dZWfywvuHt0/video.html
Uranium 235 cool
ja som nevedel zeje aj ceska verzia :D
Messur chups has a surf version popcorn and popcorno revenge
Lubomir Slava taky jsem to věděl xD
Imagine being the guy that writes the tune that will refuse to get out of peoples' heads for the next thousand years.
The guy: czcams.com/video/CquvDLrjgYU/video.html
I guffawed out loud at this comment
Fun fact: every artist who creates a successful remix/remake/reinterpretation of Popcorn must murder the previous successful Popcorn artist. It is by this ritual of blood that Popcorn retains its terrible power
the elder wand of music
when did the sweedish chef murder someone?
this implies that the crazy frog murdered someone
With the exception of Nu Pogodi version. Nu Pogodi is immortal and exists outside of time bounds.
Jean-Michel Jarre (JaiMee Jefferson) is still alive.
Me: Alexa, play popcorn
Alexa: Popcorn, by Crazy Frog
Me: NoOOOooO!
Especially as Crazy Frog has always scared me that would be a panic and hide behind the sofa moment lol.
vomit
Fuck you Spotify!
could have been baby shark ! Alexa never listens LOL
Reminds me of one time in my birthday, where my mom kept asking Alexa to play some random song (I was annoyed by that) and my mom asked Alexa something like *"Alexa, play Super Mario Bros!"* and Alexa played a remix of the super Mario Bros 1-1 theme instead of the original super Mario Bros 1-1 theme, like can I say somethin'? So.... *Alexa, play the original song instead of a strange remix! XDDDDDDDDD*
Aliens: This melody must have some historical significance to be carried over for so many generations. What is its meaning? Innocence? Love?
Human: Exploding seeds.
Aliens: ...................Oh, okay.
They're grains
@@TransistorBased grains are grass seeds.
Hope and joy, memories of happy 70ts
El alemán Gershon Kingsley, un nonagenario precursor del uso del mítico sintetizador Moog, compuso a los 47 años de edad una canción cuyo ritmo, supuestamente, imita el sonido del maíz al estallar y convertirse en palomita: “popcorn”. Parece ser que Kingsley estaba escuchando el sonido de una máquina de hacer palomitas cuando se le ocurrió componer una melodía que imitase ese ruido. Así nació el primer éxito electrónico de la historia.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE:
The German Gershon Kingsley, a nonagenarian precursor of the use of the legendary Moog synthesizer, composed at the age of 47 a song whose rhythm, supposedly, imitates the sound of corn popping and becoming popcorn: “popcorn”. It seems that Kingsley was listening to the sound of a popcorn machine when it occurred to him to compose a melody that mimicked that noise. Thus was born the first electronic hit in history.
Busted nuts?
Didn't expect to see Nu Pogodi here!
it was a very popular cartoon in the USSR.
Belarus-chan Nu Pogodi was how I knew Popcorn
Samuel The Manual Me too actually!
Nu Pogodi was also very popular in East Germany!
czcams.com/video/rStj5RO3GfQ/video.html
@@wolfen337 Probably in all of the Eastern block. I totally forgot about it untill now but i think i had some merch with it or something lol. Czech.
Hearing all the different interpetations of this song, I've learned that it's REALLY easy to perform it badly. Your timing on that melody has to be PERFECT for it to work.
I don't think it was even performed that well in the original recording by Gershon Kingsley.
@@k-leb4671 what, yes it was
Yes, though the timing *could* vary - it has to have that very staccato feel to work.
@@ballhawk387 Exactly, but it's such a fast staccato that if you're a hair off, it's noticeable.
Yeah this is one of the few songs I have heard where there are lots of properly recorded and released versions that sound like there are mess ups in the performance.
timestamps:
0:21 - original gershon kingsley version
0:57 - gershon kingsley 1972 first moog quartet
1:39 - hot butter 1972 version
2:09 - anarchic system
4:14 - jiri korn 1973
4:53 - 1976 nu pogodi version
6:38 - klaus wunderlich 1973
8:02 - V. Mešerin orchestra
9:50 - M & H band 1988
11:05 - slotmachine feat. gemini 7
12:22 - the boomtang boys
13:33 - crazy frog album version
15:08 - swedish chef version
1976 Nu pogodi is just pitched and speed up 1972 Hot Butter's version. Isn't it? :)
I remember Hot Butter 1972 best
@@S4NSE no its jiri korn xd
i love the boomtang boys 1999 version
I don't which among these versions is being used as a main theme for Chinese Cooking Show hosted by the late Fu Pei-mei.
I love how the different versions reflect the era it was made. Boomtang Boys is the most 1999 thing I’ve heard.
Popcorn: *exists*
Communists: This shit SLAPS
Communists: this is mine now
This is OUR now
Do not criticize music of Mother Russia! You get one way trip to Siberia!
Anarchic system fuckin sucks
I thought i was the only one who feel some communism vibes on this song
Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 - December 10, 2019)
ז"ל May he Rest in Peace (d. 4 days ago)
He died that recently? :( I never heard about it.
Interestingly, the keyboard player of Hot Butter who covered it, Stan Free, was born the same year, but died in 1995.
@@TryptychUK Thanks for that added info. "Stan Free" was Stanley Friedland, also Jewish like Gershon Kingsley. Amazing generation of innovators, a musical part of the WWII Greatest Generation.
Don't know what else the Boomtang Boys did, but they sure as heck did something very beautiful with Popcorn. Really made that version their own without taking away the beauty of the original. Strong end 90's techno version.
It really has a ton of early nineties trance styles, it has cafe del mar feelings to it, which is probably the most remixed dance track in the 90s, and that boomtang remix feels like it occurred at a pivotal moment in the trance rave scene. It sounds like a solid connection between generations of electronic music, so I'm glad to have found it.
They had a single called "Squeeze Toy" that was #1 in Canada for a short while in 1999.
За «Ну, погоди!» отдельное спасибо ))
@@mr.101.8 выйди пожалуйста на проспект
да! а ещё за версию ансамбля Мещерина!
Ну, погоди! One of the best cartoons... :-)
Couldn't have been more than 2 weeks ago that I was doing a clicking sound with my mouth (as I'd done for years when I was a kid) to this very song. I was thinking to myself "Damn, sure wish I knew what the name of that song was - - Mom & Dad had the only version I'd ever heard on a freakin' multi-artist 8-Track!". (Obviously, I was so bummed, thinking no one would know what it was - - especially if I tried to click the tune to them, they'd think I was bat-shit crazy.) And now, to hear all of these great renditions of, thank you SOOO much for posting this, it really made my day!
0:22 Gershon Kingsley 1969.
0:58 Gershon Kingsley & S. Free 1972
1:40 Hot Butter 1972
2:10 Anarchic System 1972
4:15 Jiří Korn 1973
6:39 Klaus Wunderlich, between 1973-1976
4:54 Nu Pogodi soundtrack 1976
8:03 V. Mescherin's Orchestra 1979
9:52 M&H Band 1988
11:05 Slot Machine feat. Gemini 7 1992
12:24 The Boomtang Boys 1999
Bonus by me: Marsheaux 2003
13:33 Crazy Frog 2005
15:09 Swedish Chef (The Muppets) 2010
Bonus by me II: DJ Helli 2012
Bonus by me III: Steve Aoki 2020
And many other versions...
There are more versions of it:
Jean Michelle Jarre, Popcorn (as Bandname),..and I mind there are some more even here on youtube
*Nu Pogodi
@@tbtilekkiller1738Thanks for notice it, fixed.
@@omarvi280 )
Ну погоди ☺. Спасибо, что полную версию мультфильма включили в подборку 🖐☺👍
Anarchic System had some serious anarchy in rythm and tuning.
I bet they're high on Acid. lol
I stopped the video during that one- just awful. The Hot Butter hit version is great- you can feel the popcorn popping!
popcorn itself, too
@@PieterPatrick so a whole orchestra was on acid? Damm, must've been a lot
@@surprisedlobsta8543 I don't hear a whole orchestra.
I only hear a lot of electonics.
No orchestra plays this... lol
The Nu Pogodi version is the reason I've been addicted to this song since I was a child. :D
Same
Yessss the nostalgia :') An Eastern European kid's Tom & Jerry
As someone who played too much DDR in their youth, I'm sad to see that Vol. 4 by Ravers Choice wasn't on here.
Amazing to see the length of history this tune has!! Seriously needs to have the Jean Michel Jarre version crammed in in here as well.
The Hot Butter version of Popcorn always sounds to me like a wild electronic samba in a robotic dance parade from another galaxy!
Thanks to Gershon Kingsley, Robert Moog, and others who had made our pulse groove to new sounds in the dance electric!
i love this version 9:52 (M&H Band 1988)
I don't like it.
I like the weird sampling.
Jean Michel jarre i think
Dakar Rally edit of this one is the best.
for me the 1988 version will always be the best. a well composed full spectrum piece of music with the soft drive of a summer breeze
6:38 i like how this is the first one on the list with the exact year being unknown, the most mysterious-sounding version so far and with the most mysterious picture with it so far. Really adds onto the list and the fact that there are so many versions of this great song.
Not only that, his last name "Wunderlich" translates to "qaint" ;)
@@Puschit1 "quaint" (synonym: peculiar)
I feel the earlier versions were a lot more interesting, with the live breakbeat drum rhythms complimenting the simple melody. And the 90s versions just become ultra simplified.
Originals are usually the best, except with the Looney Tune cartoons, and then The Looney Tunes Show was way better!
@@JasmineSurrealVideosby The Looney Tunes Show do you mean that 2010s cartoon?
When you have lots of siblings but only one of you is really famous.
Russian Cartoon very nice! 1979, 1988 & 1999 versions great! Crazy Frog & Muppets just got me bursting out in laughter 🤣🤣
Yes I love nu pogodi, i like it more than Tom and jerry lol
Crazy frog usually scares me.
@@bangerbangerbro hehehe, he is very creepy! 🤣
HE'S CREEPY BECAUSE HE HAS NO PANTS!
@@sladkinable More his staring eyes but yeah.
Gershon Kingsley's original version is still my favorite.
Wow...I always thought it first came out in 1972 by Hot Butter. I'm glad I got know this piece of great music and by who is the original artist in 1969. Thank you very much for sharing
Honestly I thought crazy frog made it
The Muppets' version is priceless !
Thank you for this excellent work of curation !
The Hot Butter-version is the "real one" for most people. And, I think it is also the best. The B-side of the single had a song that resembles the theme of The Persuaders
true
Somewhere around the house I have the 45 from Hot Butter that I bought back in the day. I can honestly say I can't recall what the "B" side sounds like. Hmmm, I wonder if I actually ever flipped it over to listen?
Not sure if I have the single but I have the LP with the folded popcorn box glued to the front of the dust cover...
Thank you so much! Hot Butter’s version is just about my earliest musical memory! The Muppets version at the end is completely insane!
childhood memories started to come back when you mentioned nu pogodi. oh god i loved that show
Such a happy little song, just bursting with joy! After listening to all the variations (never knew there were so many), I think my favorite is the one by Klaus Wunderlich.
Never heard the Klaus Wunderlich version before, it's rather nice
This popped up on my feed...and I thought it would be a documentary on this historical ways of preparing popcorn...the food.
But this was enjoyable!
I never knew the popcorn had a theme and was a meme in the 60s.
The very first version of this song I ever heard was in 2011 when I heard Hot Butter's 1972 rendition. I had no idea there were so many different variations of this song, it is quite interesting to see the bold and flamboyant history of such an iconic tune.
Thanks so much for sharing --- one of my favorite songs of all time! Thanks for telling the artist of each version, as this enabled me to know what to type in the CZcams search window to hear my favorite versions :)
Thanks a lot for this video. I had this old folder with some songs a friend of mine gave back in the high school days. There was a version of Popcorn in there, but with no name. Turns out it was the M&H Band one. Great!
A timeless classic. and a very nice compilation!
For everyone who watched this collection and want more, Neil Cicirega is some different take on it titled "Floor Corn"
Thanks to Neil I keep hearing those lyrics as the songs in this video play XD
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies
Let the bodies
Let the bodies hit the floor
Why does it suddenly feel like I should be trying to defeat the final boss in a Super Nintendo game?
I mean its the other way huh? The old chiptune composers were heavily influenced by this stuff
Sega is much better than Nintendo!
Nice lineup of this _electronic_ pioneering pop number. Didn't know artists get played by their own tunes; usually it's the other way round. ;^)
The signature snappiness is just an envelope with a very short decay -- or none at all.
Nothing beats the '69 original ...
except hot butter 1972 version
Theres some that come pretty close though.
M&H Band version came close.
The version by Hot Butter takes every title!
I think Even Hot Butter's version can't Beat the original Kingsley '69 piece, The original 1969 version has a very important melodic (and a Little psychedelic) sense that makes the song more relaxing and enjoyable to listen to (at least For me), i think it was really the first Synthpop song, The other versions, since First Moog Quartet and Hot Butter to the muppets' swedish chef Version, or whatever, are more... More, ¿How can i say it?... Danceable, more disco, or at least I Feel that. And That's why I think the Kingsley's original Pop Corn is the Best version of this masterpiece.
Wow, you've got quite a collection in there. Good stuff.
What a great video. Thanks for the upload.
I'm a hardcore/Techno warrior from days of old do was jumping with the techno version. Oddly never heard it before. So that made me happy.
I have a few hard house versions that I play in my sets from time to time.
Also loved the Klaus Wunderlich version. That guy makes me laugh.
He's a great player.... My friend used to play like him just for shits n giggles in the middle of recording tunes on his keyboard and Atari...... Yes that long ago!
Thanks again
What a bloody brilliant compilation! its amazing to see the evolution of something so simple. One I'd like to point out is the Muppets version, watch it with subtitles.....they are FKING hilarious!!
Two more:
1990: Guru Josh - Popcorn (Album "Infinity")
1994: The Time Frequency - Popcorn (Album "Dominator")
I was gonna say ttf were missing!
Also 2009: Muse - Popcorn (B-Side to Resistance single)
Talamasca - Time Machine, it's a good one.
1993: DENKI GROOVE - popcorn (Album "VITAMIN")
Also this czcams.com/video/xpZQyhKurpI/video.html&ab_channel=jozefseif
Never realized there were so many covers, and certainly never new there were any words. Thanks for the enlightenment!
No wonder this song is so NICE when it was created in '69.
Nice
I'd like your comment but it's already at 69 likes
@@Tongonto Thanks for being so NICE.
I love this video. Thank you so much.
This sounds too modern and ahead of it's time to be created in the 60's... It's impossible. They should have time travelled to the future and back to create it.
In Soviet Russia, future travels to you.
Gershon Kingsley
1922 - 2019
May he rest in Popcorn covered in butter
Круто, собрать все версии в один клип
The Hot Butter version base line is pure classic electronic gold.
I could listen to Klaus wunderlich all day. Magnificent stuff. Very talented man, greatly missed.
Thank you for your awesome work of compiling these songs! I won't die ignorant
This song has been living in my brain since I was born in 1978... it doesn’t go away!!!!
Snap! We're the same age (within a year).
The Hot Butter version was a big hit in the 70's..AM radio gold..
"pop corn" - a corny pop song. That is the origin according to Gershon Kingsley
I think the thing that gets me most about this song is that I definitely know the melody but I have absolutely no idea where from
Oh, great... Now I'm gonna dream of this tune for at least 13 nights!
Loved the 2nd moog quartet version. I did a tribute to the hot butter version using just a modern poly D synth. Love the tune for its simplicity, as annoying as it is. 😁
There are so many versions of this song/track. The version I was most familiar with, was the happy hardcore/rave version of Dominion - Salted popcorn.
You might enjoy Cornandbeans trance version
Popcorn really lives in our head rent free 4 ever
I never knew I needed this - but I did.
I actually thought Hot Butter made the first version.. You learn something new everyday :)
The one at 2:10 is awful xD
Yes
Without internet, and if you have missed the original version , the big hit of Hot Butter should be the original version for you.
I guess we were a lot of people like this.
@@jean-louispech4921 Yes the 1972 version was the original for me. I remember my dad having it on 7" vinyl, I put it on over and over again and danced to it! I was 5 years old! :D
Yes, d vibe, the timing was awful and they missed notes!! :(
d vibe what did you think of the Swedish Chef? (muppets) that, unfortunately, is what we hear, when we don't understand Swedish! He is my fav muppets character though!!
I have the 7” single of the Hot Butter version........
Interesting track, I notice that the older the tracks are the better they get.
Hey guys here is an updated version with more songs up until 2023: czcams.com/video/WHj3UJVDO7I/video.html
This is amazing! Thank you very much!!
the muppet version was just brilliant ^ç^
czcams.com/video/B7UmUX68KtE/video.html But never try to learn the chefs lyrics
I like most of the versions. A few bum notes on that live version and I was never crazy about the crazy frog version despite it being a huge hit. All the other versions I really like.
I found this on a jaunt through CZcams. Amazing. Thanks!
Hmmm...never realised this song had lyrics of any kind. Thanks for the upload of this quirky and interesting piece of music.
The Muppets' version is the best!!!
czcams.com/video/B7UmUX68KtE/video.html
I haven't heard it, but yes, The Muppets version is ALWAYS best.
there was a great version in the 90s, by a band called Koruption in 1997. Also Jean Michel Jarre did a version that was V. Good as well. There are a few metal versions I've heard on You Tube, but not sure if they were ever released.
a big thank you for this ! simply, spectacular and a very nteresting story ! superb !
Thank you! Thank you! Awesome job
1:45 my mother had that LP. It had an actual flat-folded popcorn box glued to the front.
Love the clever stuff they did to LP covers back then -- Rolling Stone's Sticky Fingers with a zipper in it; Led Zeppelin III one with the rotating disk to change the appearance, book-like covers with holes that matched different pictures depending on if the cover was open or closed, etc.
I still have that album in my storage space!
Not only a chronological evolution, but also a quality de-evolution :-D
I just LOVED the Muppets Swedish Chef section.
After almost 13 years I'm accidentely finding this (version 3) which I've once found of a reel to reel recording my dad once made in the 70s or 80s! He passed away in 2006 and heard it on this tape I inherited in 2008. This made my day! Also, time to get that reel to reel spinning again and listen to my dad's old recordings
Music to Moog by ... is the best album title in existence. When I was little, Ed Allen used to do calisthenics on tv to this song. I love Popcorn!!!
Oh god - I remember my tongue aching for _hours_ after spending time "singing" this as a kid. All that clicking.
There is another version that has a walking bass line that is used for the Laser Light Show on the side of the mountain at Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain Georgia. I first heard the version in 1983, the first year I saw the laser show. They have used it every year since. I always wondered where the song came from and now I know after all these years.
I am thrilled by how entertaining this is!!!!
My fave version is the Spacecorn Mix by Killercorn, nice 90s trance touch and deep bass.
С детства обожаю эту композицию! ☺👍
ЕСЛИ не ошибаюсь то на Спорт лото 1988 , крутили тему.
@@user-ww8vn7pr7z с детства лично я с мультика "Ну, погоди!" :)
I ❤️this song been searching for it for years didn't know the name but I had heard it as a child. Didn't know gone name...Thank you so much 😘
Tks for posting. A great hit in Brazil (Hot Butter's) when I was 10! Anyway, it's a true eletronic-keyboard classical track. Alternated bass in USSR's V. Meserin Orchestra was really a surprise.
that version from former Czechoslovakia ( Jiří Korn 1973 ) dude !!!!!!!!!!! awesome :D
Proboha....
Ja?
4:22 Is clearly the best one. This guy's name is literally CORN! :D
I never knew there were lyrics!
But the song is about almonds, because they didn't like western things, they didn't like that western was free...
I was looking so long for this song... Didn't went out of my head...
I'd been familiar with this tune for years without knowing its name or who originally performed it. I still like the original Gershon Kingsley 1969 version best. Can put it on a loop and listen to it for hours. It is like a perfectly composed micro-symphony, fresh and catchy eternally.
But that said, I dig the peppier moog quartet and hot butter versions Kingsley subsequently recorded, and Wunderlich's smoother take nearly as much. As some had posted, the timing is essential, even if altered a bit.
2021, the year that I knew the title of this instrumental is Popcorn lmao
I didn't know there has been so many version of this tune made over the years. Some of the versions I didn't much like. The main ones I like are the original Gershon/Kingsley version and the one done by Hot Butter from 1972. I also really like the Swedish Chef version at the end. That was the funniest version I've ever seen or heard. :)
Thanks. I have been trying to remember and find the 1988 version.
Two more: 1 - Pop Cicles - Popcorn (1982), 2 - Magic Men - Popcorn (1983). Excellent compilation!!
11:06 popcorn music while making some for MortalKombat.
How is there no version called "Chicago Mix"?
Big ups for including the Crazy Frog version. He'll yee borthor
Ngl this is actually amazing I hope they keep revamping the song every couple of years