Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/16/gershon-kingsley-1922-2019.html
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Other well known musician that covered Popcorn is Jean-Michel Jarre.
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OH man - I remember Popcorn on the oldies station… probably my earliest exposure to electronica - a love that continues to this day!
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“Popcorn” aka “The Song That Launched A Million Lottery Balls.”
there’s also a montage scene in the highly underrated 90s movie Dick set to the tune.
As for Jean Jaques Perry, his hit was “E.V.A.,” first cannonized by DJ Premier sampling it for “Just to Get a Rep” and later covered by I believe it was Moby. The original is one of those rare examples of a perfect song:
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The track featured in the article is not Gershon’s original version, this is: https://youtu.be/Sp9ki2jPWdg
Edit: how do you embed stuff here?
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My favorite cover is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
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I’m not sure why it’s not embedding for you, it does for me just by copy pasting your url:
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I would recommend:
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That song’s fantastic! I never knew they made music together.
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A version of this song was wildly popular at clubs in the 80s (at least in the Chicago area).
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That works
Apparently that version is by M&H Band.
There was a happy hardcore version in the 90s, because it seemed like there was a happy hardcore version of every song ever made at one point in the 90s.
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I think the problem was your link was a truncated version: youtu.be/etc
not www.youtube.com/etc
but maybe not?
you were right to put it on its own line, that was what tripped me up when I first used the Discourse BBS service.
edit: maybe put an extra blank line before the link on a separate line ?
oh, it was recommended, all right. the artwork on your post came from a later issue with Kingsley also credited, but it’s the same track.
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@AngryGoggles
looks like Rob changed it on the permalink.
I was going to say, the version he accidentally posted had a lot more bottom than I would have expected for 1969.
edit: so it looks like the version initially posted was by Anarchic System in 1972. much better than the Hot Butter version of the same year.
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