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"Popcorn" is an
instrumental composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 for the album
Music To Moog By. In 1972, a rearranged version of the
instrumental was recorded by Stan Free, a fellow member of the
First Moog Quartet, with his own band Hot Butter... and suddenly
the corn exploded: "Popcorn" turned out to be one of the most
successful instrumentals in history and was the biggest hit of
the year 1972 globally with a total of 7,856,000 points. It went
to no.1 in Germany, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Norway,
Belgium, and Switzerland. In United Kingdom it reached no.5, in
the United States no.9. |
