i remember hearing this in the Montreal Expo of 1969. I was 5 yrs old and was mostly impressed by the big "box" covered in lamps blinking and by the unique sound. Took me years later to realize it became so popular.
Nothing else sounds quite like this. The 1972 version of Popcorn was a foreshadowing of how synthesized music would develop in the 1970s, but this version feels like it belongs to some other tradition entirely. It does foreshadow the beat of disco and its EDM descendants, and it has an eerie echoey sound similar to so much music of the 1980s, but it also feels old. It's futuristic and outdated all at once, like some haunting alternate future that never came to be. It's like the musical equivalent of Moonbase Alpha.
About a decade ago, in the Napster era, I used to collect versions of Popcorn. Although I loved them all, I never came across this one, even when specifically searching for the original. I was shocked when I finally found this understated masterpiece. It made my favorite versions seem so crude. Kingsley is a genius.
Genius, when you consider that this was handmade, with the guy having to overlay the tracks manually and make them fit, as well as discovering the sounds on the technology. Some of those sounds still sound futuristic.
Bet the two guys above me would have a hard time trying to name any modern piece of music with even half the compositional creativity as this. Let alone what Keith Emerson would go on to do with the synth.
@@pifflepockleDon't confuse lack of convenience with talent. All that matters are the notes, chords, and melodies. If you are more concerned with how they were recorded rather than how they were arranged then you are just a hipster.
To put this in perspective, this song came out before disco, before YMCA (and most songs that were popular in the 70s), right when the carpenters & the Jackson 5 were starting to release their first songs, and at least 18 years before modern edm/rave music would begin to take form. This track is the most ahead of its time that any track will ever be for a long time. Not the first electronic music track, but definitely one of the first that made an impact on the future edm of the late 80s and beyond.
Electrónica Post Concreta, Moog, Experimental & Soundtrack de los 60s...el inicio de la Música Electrónica por parte de los pilares y fundadores de la Electrónica Moderna (2da ola de productores y máximos desarrolladores): Kingsley, Dissevelt, Scott, Derbyshire, Garson, Hodgson, Cecil, Henry, Prilly, Hyman, Carlos...está es la base que forma a los productores y máximos desarrolladores de la Electrónica de los 70s (3ra ola de productores y máximos desarrolladores): Moroder, Jarre, Lacksman, Tangerine Dreams, YMO, Schulze, Vangelis, Faltermeyer, Tonet, Gizzi, Pinhas, Martin W. & Ian C...(entre otros). Moroder gana la carrera de desarrollo en 1977 con el inicio de la EDM Concreta y los 3 Géneros primarios y matrices que se forjan de esta escena el NRG (HI-NRG), Synthpop y Electro. De la EDM Concreta y sus 3 Géneros Matrices + la Electronica Post Concreta, Moog, Experimental & Soundtrack del conjunto de productores citados y sus respectivas líneas (E. Munich, E. Berlin, E. Francia, E. Japón, E. Bélgica) + el E. Funk y la escena Disco se forma la base y molde pilar para la 2da generación de la EDM 80s y su ramificacion (1981-1989): House, Techno, Synthpop, NRG, Freestyle, Italo, New Beat, Trance, Ácid, Electro, Eurobeat...incluida la base electronica primaria de la "ebm" y lo más sofisticado de la Electro Industrial. Kingsley pionero, pilar, desarrollador y maestro de la Música Electrónica.
Por cierto este tema no es la primera Música Electrónica pero si es parte del conjunto de primeros temas en concretar la Música Electrónica y uno de los primeros en alcanzar alto grado de desarrollo, base y línea eléctronica concreta a molde futuro.
Even the original is a version. The moment anything but the original exists, all versions are versions. The word you're looking for here isn't "version" but rather "cover".
@@BerryTheBnnuy Yes, it is the original version, not just "a version". This "original version" expresión is used oftenly, even though the Oxford dictionary says: Version: a form of something that is slightly different from an earlier form or from other forms of the same thing. But we can consider Gershon did his own version of his own music sheet, and did some others as well, he not only played it once, so each time he played it he did a version... but they are all originals as he was the composer. Anyway, I think my comment was, long time ago, linked to another comment, but since it is 8 years old and RUclips made that awful transition to Google+, all the responses to other comments that were posted before that transition, were unlinked from the original comment they refered to and they now look as individual comments. You can see that in very old videos, many comments make no sense on their own, they were replies.
How funny. I was around back then and even though this sound was cutting edge and meant to be futuristic, it sounds very much of that era to me. In the 80s I can remember how dated it sounded. I guess what goes around...
The best cover so far that ive heard is the boomtang boys version. But it still does not come close the the trancy vibe of the original. All the covers seem to be based on the hot butter version.
A lot of the equipment used to make electronic music today works on the same principles as the original Moog Modular used by Gershon Kingsley. My Mother32 runs the _exact_ same design of oscillators and filters that were used in this piece, just in a single standalone eurorack-compatible unit with a MIDI-in control port and a 16-step sequencer, and with modern versions of the various transistors, potentiometers, oscillator chips and other individual components used in its manufacture.
No SH!T...I had to listen to this for 3 hours straight as we were lost in the mountains in the mid 70's and my dad had no other cassettes and the was NO radio reception...Honestly, I'd do it again if he was still here...Miss ya POP... THNX for the video!!!
This still sounds new and experimental. Imagine how it must sound like almost 50 years ago. This is where it began. Vangelis, Kraftwerk, techno, EDM, and so on. It started here. :-D
Not sure I agree that all current electronic music started with Popcorn. You can't lump everything into one bucket, so to speak. Lots of electronic music has its roots in the contemporary music from the 40s and 50s (which stretches even further back to classical music). Whereas other electronic music has its roots in rock, pop and disco (which goes back to soul, blues, and some forms of native music). Basically, there is no one single starting point, but many influences and styles and composers over lots of time :-)
No theremins on the Forbidden Planet score. Louis and Bebe Barron built what they described as cybernetic circuits based on the research by mathematician Norbert Wiener. The sounds from these where manipulated on magnetic tape to produce the score and many other early works of electronic music.
Someone wrote this is a remix. I found a cut from the "full album", which is ONE clip itself. Listen and compare. ruclips.net/video/Sp9ki2jPWdg/видео.html I have my sound coming through cell phone, I think this is "sharper", so maybe...? 🤔🤔 Anyone?
@@annabackman3028 Hm, it's hard to tell from just the RUclips videos, but putting on proper headphones helps. The audio quality differs widely: this video is mono and slightly muffled, the video you linked sounds pristine (and stereo), and some other videos I found sit somewhere in the middle (with clean sound but noticeable artefacts from compression, presumably present before uploading to RUclips). I don't think this is a remix - at most the other version you found could be a remaster. (However, there is no evidence of an existing remaster - at least the entry for "Music to Moog By" on discogs reports that none of the reissues (RE) was clearly marked as remastered (RM). See [1], [2].) I think the difference is due to the way this video found its way to the internet: presumably it was first recorded on some analogue medium (video cassette?) and then converted to digital by a consumer. For the other versions, the audio was converted to digital by the record company for the CD re-release (which I guess already introduces a new round of post-production), and then transferred further in the digital realm. But this is all speculation. TL;DR: no idea! ;-) [1]: www.discogs.com/Gershon-Kingsley-Music-To-Moog-By/master/137913 [2]: www.discogs.com/help/formatslist
I don't see a lot of news sites talking about Mr. Kinsley's death. He pioneered electronic music. Without him, we wouldn't no Moby, no Fatboy Slim, no Daft Punk, no Chemical Brothers, no Basement Jaxx, and none of those other EDM DJs. RIP Gershon Kingsley
What really blows me away is the original Dr. Who theme music from 1961, before the first keyboard controlled synthesizer had even been built! It's all electronic as far as I know/can tell, and it sounds a lot like Pink Floyd, yet it was recorded in ¡1961!
Man I have been looking for this tune forever, I keep hearing it in alot of songs. And now I find it by chance. This must have inspired tones of music.
I've heard this sampled and replicated so many times and had no idea that this was the source. It's electronic but still has a distinct 60s sound. Amazing.
I would say this was more hardcore house of the early nineties trance of the late 90s early 00s was too poppy and soft this is too raw to sound like trance
Мелодия вне времени, вне границ, вне каких-либо ограничений. Каждый её знает, и регулярно она появляется в том или ином проявлении!) Платиновый фонд музыки человечества!)
@@teguhilhami5894 actually, in the old version of youtube you have ro reply but in comment, put the sort comments with "new" or "old" and now it makes sense.
In 1969 i was born. My father was a Marine, and my mother was one of the nurses that saved his life. Flash forward to 1989, and i was at a warehouse party (pre raves) dancing to a remix of this track i'd heard all my life. And now in 2020 it's still ahead of its time. The youngsters today think they made all the cool dance/trance music.
This song is on Gershon Kingsley's album "Music To Moog By". Releases in 1969. It has 10 tracks on it and runs for about 26 minutes. The album has 7 of his own creations along with 2 Beatles covers and one Simon & Garfunkel cover on it. I own this on CD.
also try this one -- As a tribute to Mr. Kingsley, who passed away this week at the age of 97, I made this version -- hearthis.at/carbinax/popcorn-carbinax-remix-2/
Gershon Kingsley is one of the music geniuses that created a limitless piece of modern 20th Century music that is forevermore tangible; in-which we are eternally grateful for.
Wow. I am totally blown away by this. Not only does it sound great, it blows my mind to think it's from the late 60's. Could easily pass for much newer.
As strange as it might seem, the first time I heard this was in 1983, in an arcade videogame called Pengo! I had no idea this was an actual piece of synth music! A true masterpiece.
Love this. Moog is the Godfather of all synths. I first heard Popcorn while sitting in The Auditorium Theater in Chicago in the 60s. Unforgettable. Thank you for posting this.
I have listened to so many different versions of Popcorn 😹😹from this one in 1969 the one in 1972 which I have the single of, hearing it yet again re-mixed in the 80’s and yet again in the 90’s and now there is a new re-mix done Heavy Metal style which is just as good. It’s one of those tunes, that youngsters hear one day and it gets popular all over again😹😹😹
his family just anounced on facebook that mr kingsley passed away few days ago: "Gershon passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of December 10th, surrounded by loved ones at home." --godspeed Herr Popcorn, and thank you for the music!
Today on Spotify I created a playlist with about 30 versions of Popcorn and it's taken me a good couple of hours to listen to them all. Some amazing covers, and a few rather odd ones too, lol. I'm 59 and first time I heard this was magical.
Wow, this is SO much better than the Hot Butter version. Good volume balance, the melody and bass tones work well with each other, upbeat without feeling rushed; very nice.
An iconic, groundbreaking tune, and this version (the original) is the best in my humble opinion. Later remixes miss a couple of key chord changes and often shift the key the song is played in. R.I.P Gershon Kingsley.
No it's just Mr. Kingsley. He's German American and there's no mention of being knighted by the Queen in the biography on his website www.gershonkingsley.com/biography.html
Wow !!! Simply incredible, the early days of trance music was born in the sixties. Way ahead of its time, forget rock n roll this was the real dance music of the future 🙏❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️🙏 Nov twenty two
I was 4 when this came out. Heard it many times since, not necessarily the original version though. Never knew the name of the song until today in 2023! Amazing what he did with what would have been cutting-edge (for the time) technology that we couldn't properly comprehend nowadays! Came from TikTok to look for it. Listened to JMJ's version first. Didn't know it was a cover! AWESOMELY AMAZING!!!😊😊😊😊
The more I listen to this, the more I like it. I grew up listening to Hot Butter's version, but this is just so much more complex in terms of the instruments. Gershon Kingsley RIP, you're a legend
originally recorded in 1969 by Gershon Kingsley. In 1972, it was a huge hit in many countries when it was rerecorded by Hot Butter. "Popcorn" has since been covered by a great number of artists.
before Vangelis, JMJ or even Kraftwerk !! I wonder if Gershon Kingsley ever gets his credits he deserve for this masterpiece i mean come on 1969 ''Beatles, Bee Gees and he composed this !!
+Roelof Buter Actually, he did, twice. The first one under the pseudonym "The Popcorn Orchestra" and the second one under the pseudonym Jamie Jefferson
Yeah this was the song that basically made electronic music into actual music before electronic music was just random noise and kraftwerk basically made it more popular
Let's all celebrate 50 years of electro music! Grazie, Signore Gershon Kingsley. :) Without you, this kind of music may not have been expanded this far as it has today.
Imagine alguém há meio século atrás, pegar um gênero de música que não existia no mercado, que se resumia à experimentos com sons eletrônicos crus feitos em estúdios isolados. O cara torna isto mais digerível, em formato comercial e lança-o no mercado com grande repercussão. Um gênero novo que só seria popular e lucrativo dali à décadas!!! Isto foi o que Gershon Kingsley fez lá no final dos anos 60. Gênio é pouco...
Electronic music has always existed it was invented in 1929 I think except it wasn’t really music and was mostly experimenting with making music with electronics and wasn’t very mainstream like it is now even at the time this song came out it still wasn’t mainstream
Imaging hearing this in 1969... must have been like hearing something from another planet
It's almost like the astronauts of Apollo 11 brought it back from the moon...
Yea kinda...
i remember hearing this in the Montreal Expo of 1969. I was 5 yrs old and was mostly impressed by the big "box" covered in lamps blinking and by the unique sound. Took me years later to realize it became so popular.
The Dr Who theme from 1963 wound have sounded ahead of its time too
M K lucky you. I was only -2 at the time
Nothing else sounds quite like this. The 1972 version of Popcorn was a foreshadowing of how synthesized music would develop in the 1970s, but this version feels like it belongs to some other tradition entirely. It does foreshadow the beat of disco and its EDM descendants, and it has an eerie echoey sound similar to so much music of the 1980s, but it also feels old. It's futuristic and outdated all at once, like some haunting alternate future that never came to be. It's like the musical equivalent of Moonbase Alpha.
Love it. So true. Unrefined yet beautiful.
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About a decade ago, in the Napster era, I used to collect versions of Popcorn. Although I loved them all, I never came across this one, even when specifically searching for the original.
I was shocked when I finally found this understated masterpiece. It made my favorite versions seem so crude. Kingsley is a genius.
As a tribute to Mr. Kingsley, , I made this version -- hearthis.at/carbinax/popcorn-carbinax-remix-2/
Great comment, Spinning. Well said.
The Grandmaster is gone. Passed away 10th December 2019.
Gershon Kingsley was a true pioneer and a remarkable composer.
As a tribute to Mr. Kingsley, I made this version -- hearthis.at/carbinax/popcorn-carbinax-remix-2/
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He and Nujabes are getting along in the skies and stars now.
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Oh, damn. Well at least he will be pleasantly surprised at them playing this song at the gates of heaven.
He lived a great life. If it wasn’t for him, trance music wouldn’t exist.
Genius, when you consider that this was handmade, with the guy having to overlay the tracks manually and make them fit, as well as discovering the sounds on the technology. Some of those sounds still sound futuristic.
Always think that music being too easy to produce takes away from its potential greatness
@@pifflepockle nope, on the contrary, allows more freedom and the ability to be much more creative, obviously if you're motivated enough
@@shyshka_
More accurately it allows for more time to be invested in the creative process due to a quicker workflow.
Bet the two guys above me would have a hard time trying to name any modern piece of music with even half the compositional creativity as this. Let alone what Keith Emerson would go on to do with the synth.
@@pifflepockleDon't confuse lack of convenience with talent. All that matters are the notes, chords, and melodies. If you are more concerned with how they were recorded rather than how they were arranged then you are just a hipster.
To put this in perspective, this song came out before disco, before YMCA (and most songs that were popular in the 70s), right when the carpenters & the Jackson 5 were starting to release their first songs, and at least 18 years before modern edm/rave music would begin to take form. This track is the most ahead of its time that any track will ever be for a long time. Not the first electronic music track, but definitely one of the first that made an impact on the future edm of the late 80s and beyond.
Electrónica Post Concreta, Moog, Experimental & Soundtrack de los 60s...el inicio de la Música Electrónica por parte de los pilares y fundadores de la Electrónica Moderna (2da ola de productores y máximos desarrolladores): Kingsley, Dissevelt, Scott, Derbyshire, Garson, Hodgson, Cecil, Henry, Prilly, Hyman, Carlos...está es la base que forma a los productores y máximos desarrolladores de la Electrónica de los 70s (3ra ola de productores y máximos desarrolladores): Moroder, Jarre, Lacksman, Tangerine Dreams, YMO, Schulze, Vangelis, Faltermeyer, Tonet, Gizzi, Pinhas, Martin W. & Ian C...(entre otros).
Moroder gana la carrera de desarrollo en 1977 con el inicio de la EDM Concreta y los 3 Géneros primarios y matrices que se forjan de esta escena el NRG (HI-NRG), Synthpop y Electro.
De la EDM Concreta y sus 3 Géneros Matrices + la Electronica Post Concreta, Moog, Experimental & Soundtrack del conjunto de productores citados y sus respectivas líneas (E. Munich, E. Berlin, E. Francia, E. Japón, E. Bélgica) + el E. Funk y la escena Disco se forma la base y molde pilar para la 2da generación de la EDM 80s y su ramificacion (1981-1989): House, Techno, Synthpop, NRG, Freestyle, Italo, New Beat, Trance, Ácid, Electro, Eurobeat...incluida la base electronica primaria de la "ebm" y lo más sofisticado de la Electro Industrial.
Kingsley pionero, pilar, desarrollador y maestro de la Música Electrónica.
Por cierto este tema no es la primera Música Electrónica pero si es parte del conjunto de primeros temas en concretar la Música Electrónica y uno de los primeros en alcanzar alto grado de desarrollo, base y línea eléctronica concreta a molde futuro.
Check elephants Never forgets - Jean jacques perrey its another case
It is not a version, it is the original.
Totally And Truly deeply THE BEST the other one ahead where nothing compare to the original
Even the original is a version. The moment anything but the original exists, all versions are versions. The word you're looking for here isn't "version" but rather "cover".
@@BerryTheBnnuy Yes, it is the original version, not just "a version". This "original version" expresión is used oftenly, even though the Oxford dictionary says:
Version: a form of something that is slightly different from an earlier form or from other forms of the same thing.
But we can consider Gershon did his own version of his own music sheet, and did some others as well, he not only played it once, so each time he played it he did a version... but they are all originals as he was the composer. Anyway, I think my comment was, long time ago, linked to another comment, but since it is 8 years old and RUclips made that awful transition to Google+, all the responses to other comments that were posted before that transition, were unlinked from the original comment they refered to and they now look as individual comments. You can see that in very old videos, many comments make no sense on their own, they were replies.
original
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I cannot believe this is 1969! It sounds so modern!
nope, actually I can notice the influence of that era. (I mean the architecture and melodie)
How funny. I was around back then and even though this sound was cutting edge and meant to be futuristic, it sounds very much of that era to me. In the 80s I can remember how dated it sounded. I guess what goes around...
Sounds like a mix of vaporwave and psychedelic music from the 60s
It has a very 60's vibe imo. Definitely at the fringe but it doesn't feel modern to me
@@mspalding4605 Who cares if it sounded dated. Older music is supposed to be appreciated for its time.
Let's just take a minute to realise that this song is 45 years old. dayum
our new generation is fucked
Lyphian92 said every other generation
***** thats what im talking about heheh
Lyphian92 I am the new generation and i confirm I indeed am fucked
AccidentalBassDrop 45 years ahead of its time.
Gershon Kingsley passed away on this Dec.10, 2019. Popcorn 4 ever.
Rip mr kingsley
RIP
Sadly!
rip
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None of the covers of Kingsley's original have come anywhere near the mysterious, psychedelic feel of the brilliant original.
I disagree with that tbf.
Agreed, Ambienfinity.
Brings back some of my earliest musical memories. Great track!
Crazy Frog is the best version of the song and even better than the original. I will die on this hill.
The best cover so far that ive heard is the boomtang boys version. But it still does not come close the the trancy vibe of the original. All the covers seem to be based on the hot butter version.
It is unbelievable that this track is really that old. A lot of the sounds could come from a modern trance track. Amazing!
Indeed. I thought this was from the late 70's or early 80's. :O
A lot of the equipment used to make electronic music today works on the same principles as the original Moog Modular used by Gershon Kingsley. My Mother32 runs the _exact_ same design of oscillators and filters that were used in this piece, just in a single standalone eurorack-compatible unit with a MIDI-in control port and a 16-step sequencer, and with modern versions of the various transistors, potentiometers, oscillator chips and other individual components used in its manufacture.
@@sikkepossuis 1969
@@VestedUTuber Got a pic???
@@sirtrancealot
I do, but if I try to post a link RUclips deletes the comment. I can upload a video clip, though.
No SH!T...I had to listen to this for 3 hours straight as we were lost in the mountains in the mid 70's and my dad had no other cassettes and the was NO radio reception...Honestly, I'd do it again if he was still here...Miss ya POP...
THNX for the video!!!
Lucky
bro, that anecdote sounds so powerful!
The first synthpop song ever in the world. Waay ahead of its time.
Jay G ...nope! PIERRE HENRY - Psyché Rock 1967
although this one is also a pioneer, and a great track
+Tony G Seriously. WAY ahead of its time. Like 20 years ahead. This is like the equivalent of an i7 during the P5 processor days.
This isn't just synthpop.
This is synth _art._
Popcorn Sutton you, my friend are what I would consider my type of person
No its the first electronic song made in the world well first song tha came under dance genre
This still sounds new and experimental. Imagine how it must sound like almost 50 years ago.
This is where it began. Vangelis, Kraftwerk, techno, EDM, and so on. It started here. :-D
I hope people didn't hate it. I also wonder exactly how different it actually sounded!
You, my friend, are absolutely right! Without lying, I got goosebumps when found out THIS was the original!
Not sure I agree that all current electronic music started with Popcorn. You can't lump everything into one bucket, so to speak. Lots of electronic music has its roots in the contemporary music from the 40s and 50s (which stretches even further back to classical music). Whereas other electronic music has its roots in rock, pop and disco (which goes back to soul, blues, and some forms of native music). Basically, there is no one single starting point, but many influences and styles and composers over lots of time :-)
Jack Flippin Don't forget the score for the scifi movie Forbiden Planet from the 50s, performed on the "Theramin".
No theremins on the Forbidden Planet score. Louis and Bebe Barron built what they described as cybernetic circuits based on the research by mathematician Norbert Wiener. The sounds from these where manipulated on magnetic tape to produce the score and many other early works of electronic music.
Way ahead of it's time. Gives you chills that it was 1969. It sounds like something you'd hear today. Unbelievable
El estilo si se oye de esa época pero lo electrónico le da un toque de los 2000's
Its got that space 1999 apeal
Way way ahead of it's time.
its*
xMusicx "Way ahead of its time" - Yes, by about 30 years!
@@droid16beta97 f u
Someone wrote this is a remix. I found a cut from the "full album", which is ONE clip itself. Listen and compare.
ruclips.net/video/Sp9ki2jPWdg/видео.html
I have my sound coming through cell phone, I think this is "sharper", so maybe...? 🤔🤔 Anyone?
@@annabackman3028 Hm, it's hard to tell from just the RUclips videos, but putting on proper headphones helps. The audio quality differs widely: this video is mono and slightly muffled, the video you linked sounds pristine (and stereo), and some other videos I found sit somewhere in the middle (with clean sound but noticeable artefacts from compression, presumably present before uploading to RUclips). I don't think this is a remix - at most the other version you found could be a remaster. (However, there is no evidence of an existing remaster - at least the entry for "Music to Moog By" on discogs reports that none of the reissues (RE) was clearly marked as remastered (RM). See [1], [2].)
I think the difference is due to the way this video found its way to the internet: presumably it was first recorded on some analogue medium (video cassette?) and then converted to digital by a consumer. For the other versions, the audio was converted to digital by the record company for the CD re-release (which I guess already introduces a new round of post-production), and then transferred further in the digital realm. But this is all speculation.
TL;DR: no idea! ;-)
[1]: www.discogs.com/Gershon-Kingsley-Music-To-Moog-By/master/137913
[2]: www.discogs.com/help/formatslist
He died 12/10/2019 at age 97, he was a pioneer of electronic music and early synthesizers, rest in peace!
Born 10/28/1922
@@leandroassirelli9484 Thanks for adding that info!
You're welcome😊
I wasn't expecting this to sound newer than the version that came out in the 70s.
sonikku956 the 70s version is pretty bad compared to this imo
I have a copy, it's actually newly re-recorded of this song and it sounds fantastic!
The 70's version, by Hot Butter, was more in line with the tastes of that time.
Kingsley was about 30 years ahead of his time.
nice pfp
Same, sonik.
I don't see a lot of news sites talking about Mr. Kinsley's death. He pioneered electronic music. Without him, we wouldn't no Moby, no Fatboy Slim, no Daft Punk, no Chemical Brothers, no Basement Jaxx, and none of those other EDM DJs. RIP Gershon Kingsley
*Aphex Twin / Richard D. James, who produced a version of this under the alias Caustic Window.
Otherwise, great comment.
Kraftwerks ?
@@breakingtoast2255 This is Kraftwerk in 1970 and you can smell the popcorn ... ruclips.net/video/hWUiLJnEYJI/видео.html
Rip
Can you imagine, I was just a kid when I heard it for the first time at school in Paris. It's so amazing to hear it again 45 years old after. Thanks !
Man... this is actually about 45 years old? It really is amazing that they could create this with the technology they had then...
yeah bro this track was considered the very first song of EDM
Edm? What's that? XD
xXDarkShadowKnightXx XD it means Electronic Dance Music XD
moog synth. oldschool.
What really blows me away is the original Dr. Who theme music from 1961, before the first keyboard controlled synthesizer had even been built! It's all electronic as far as I know/can tell, and it sounds a lot like Pink Floyd, yet it was recorded in ¡1961!
I love the ethereal, somewhat airy sound of this version. The original has always been my favorite.
This song is 45 years old, and it sounds like a happy trance track! Love it.
Yeah
now 50
now it's 52 years old
Almost 53 years old
55
Gershon Kingsley is still alive and he is 92.
still alive at 94.
Damn, I thought he died in 2007
Now 95
97 xD
just checked - 98
Gershon Kingsley
Age: 97
Status: legend
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Fuck oath
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Rest In Peace
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Finally, the original song.
Man I have been looking for this tune forever, I keep hearing it in alot of songs.
And now I find it by chance.
This must have inspired tones of music.
Started trance and other electric music.
purplemonkey123211 I'm getting tired of this retarded statement.
sageyash and me
Yes it has inspired many tones, E and B flat for example were inspired by this song.
I've heard this sampled and replicated so many times and had no idea that this was the source. It's electronic but still has a distinct 60s sound. Amazing.
This man was very far ahead of his time. Trance and a combination of other genres. Trance didn't come to be until 1990s. This is where EDM came from
NeonTrash Electronic music was amazing even before trance existed. :)
I would say this was more hardcore house of the early nineties trance of the late 90s early 00s was too poppy and soft this is too raw to sound like trance
this was when electronic music still had groove. unlike all of that EDM, house, hardcore, trance or whatever crap.
Мелодия вне времени, вне границ, вне каких-либо ограничений. Каждый её знает, и регулярно она появляется в том или ином проявлении!) Платиновый фонд музыки человечества!)
Помню её регулярно играли на проводном радио Маяк в 90-х в Киргизии.
@АЛЕКСАНДР ДЕРБЕНЕВ10 то что в этом видео это не ремикс, а оригинал композитора Гершона Кингсли который вышел в конце 60х.
It is the original one.
Indeed
You said it twice.
@@teguhilhami5894 actually, in the old version of youtube you have ro reply but in comment, put the sort comments with "new" or "old" and now it makes sense.
이제 누가 더 언니지 리믹스로 알게되었지만 원곡이 1969년 곡인걸 알게되니까 정말 시대를 앞선 명곡이란 생각이 든다.
Despite me being way younger than the song itself it makes me feel nostalgic. Maybe it reminds me of an era long gone. Does anyone relate?
Yes, very much, that's so true.
yeeesss
Crazy Frog 🐸
i do, i don't know how,where or when i heard this song but i know it somehow and it makes me nostalgic. Weird.
No
RIP Gershon Kingsley
I hope you are having a good time with other musical legends in heaven.
This song never gets old.
A truely amazing track, way way ahead of its time.
shrooms are of all times.
Inlakech67 Lol, I know what u mean. ;-)
In 1969 i was born.
My father was a Marine, and my mother was one of the nurses that saved his life. Flash forward to 1989, and i was at a warehouse party (pre raves) dancing to a remix of this track i'd heard all my life.
And now in 2020 it's still ahead of its time. The youngsters today think they made all the cool dance/trance music.
This song is on Gershon Kingsley's album "Music To Moog By". Releases in 1969. It has 10 tracks on it and runs for about 26 minutes. The album has 7 of his own creations along with 2 Beatles covers and one Simon & Garfunkel cover on it. I own this on CD.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing for the comments section.
"Hey Hey" is mind-blowing.
Basically the first trance song.
No, just one of the first electronic music tracks, Trance born in 1990
Trance wasn't a thing back when this was made, if you were to categorize this in today's genres this would be a type of Prog House (maybe).
Jesus prog house? haahahha this track was at 30's, that time didn't exist electronic genres, simply was called "electronic" period.
LePartyTranz Alrighty then I guess that works.
Jesus sorry, this was at 60's, my error xD
RIP Gershon Kingsley at 97. Thanks for the music!
I think this is the best version of the song. (Can't go wrong with the original.) It just stands out among the rest.
this iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssss the original !!!!!!!!!!!!!! i finally found it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must be high on crack! Hot Butter's version is so much better - that groove!
@@banehog Hot Butter's version is humorous, and glues itself in the brain. This is actually beautiful 🤔...
also try this one -- As a tribute to Mr. Kingsley, who passed away this week at the age of 97, I made this version -- hearthis.at/carbinax/popcorn-carbinax-remix-2/
@@Carbinax cool remix, loving it
So this is what the original sounded like... wow!
Gershon Kingsley is a genius that was ahead of its time in 50 years
Gershon Kingsley is one of the music geniuses that created a limitless piece of modern 20th Century music that is forevermore tangible; in-which we are eternally grateful for.
over 50 years old and still a bop RIP Gershon Kingsley
Dang
Our grandparents tripped on this stuff :D
Sure they did XD
True :')
my grandmother was only 3, lol
My grandparents were isolated in the PRC
dayum my grandpa was like in his late 20’s
Wow. I am totally blown away by this. Not only does it sound great, it blows my mind to think it's from the late 60's. Could easily pass for much newer.
Like 1990
As strange as it might seem, the first time I heard this was in 1983, in an arcade videogame called Pengo! I had no idea this was an actual piece of synth music! A true masterpiece.
Pengo?
@@VitalXeno Yes! Please go to 2:05 of this video: ruclips.net/video/6q3bNHvj92c/видео.html 🙂
@@VitalXeno Game where you're a penguin crushing enemies with ice blocks that came out in 1982. Some versions didn't use the popcorn song though.
Digger had this track too
RIP Dec 10, 2019 at 97
What I admire about this version of Popcorn is the bassline - very 1950s style bassline accompanying synth sounds.
Sadly, he passed away on Dec 10th, 2019. RIP, Master. And thanks for these feelings.
47 years of cool music, thanks Gershon Kingsley. Funny how it stands the test of time. Greatness always does.
In Soviet cartoons, it was used as background music. I didn't even know the original was so psychedelic!
At last I heard the original version 💕💕💕
Love from an Azerbaijani listener 🌞♥️🇦🇿
Sounds so... otherworldly. I love it.
Love this. Moog is the Godfather of all synths. I first heard Popcorn while sitting in The Auditorium Theater in Chicago in the 60s. Unforgettable. Thank you for posting this.
1969 is the best year of all time!
Yes,dude,yes!I really need a time machine
1969 was great. For me 1980 is best year of all time.
GET ME OUTTA THIS MODERN SHIT HOLE
For me 2013 is best year of all time
Yea, those were the good ol days. I still remember swimming in my dad's balls, when he was only 9. Oh the memories 😢
i guess this is where dance music and trance comes from? amazing for 1969 :)
Schoenberg, Stockhausen and others were in the 50s. Even Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles was in 1966.
Composer Gershon Kingsley still going at 96??? God bless!!
finster1968 He died... December 10th... Rip
I don't know why i feel like crying.. thanks to this great artist.. tears of joy falling down..
47 years later, still amazing
Timeless classic - you can almost smell the Moog electronics in the room when this was being recorded. So evocative....
i wish this video had a higher resolution because i think the kaleidoscope effects perfectly accompanies this beautiful melody
I have listened to so many different versions of Popcorn 😹😹from this one in 1969 the one in 1972 which I have the single of, hearing it yet again re-mixed in the 80’s and yet again in the 90’s and now there is a new re-mix done Heavy Metal style which is just as good. It’s one of those tunes, that youngsters hear one day and it gets popular all over again😹😹😹
his family just anounced on facebook that mr kingsley passed away few days ago: "Gershon passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of December 10th, surrounded by loved ones at home." --godspeed Herr Popcorn, and thank you for the music!
Today on Spotify I created a playlist with about 30 versions of Popcorn and it's taken me a good couple of hours to listen to them all. Some amazing covers, and a few rather odd ones too, lol. I'm 59 and first time I heard this was magical.
Wow, this is SO much better than the Hot Butter version. Good volume balance, the melody and bass tones work well with each other, upbeat without feeling rushed; very nice.
I still can’t process how good this song is, way better than any version ever
Its the source girl😉
I know dah! What I’m saying is that even though the song got so many covers the original is just mind blowing, out of this world
@@helensnyder7364 you are so right 💗🙏
Can I just say the sound quality on this is so crisp and clear - it's a beautiful example of a RUclips upload.
Well done and thank you.
Really good song. I'm surprised how fresh it sounds, even today. It surpass a lot of later versions for sure.
Congratulations, you find the original! You can be proud of your curiosity.
Very relaxing and beautiful version. It’s like listening to Enya’s music. I hope Enya will make her own version of this.
An iconic, groundbreaking tune, and this version (the original) is the best in my humble opinion. Later remixes miss a couple of key chord changes and often shift the key the song is played in. R.I.P Gershon Kingsley.
So, the first Techno-Trance song out there? BRILLIANT!
RIP Gershon Kingsley. Your music is the sound of my nostalgia!
You have no idea how long I've been looking for this song. I've been humming it nonstop for months.
That song right there, I listen to it everytime, never gets old
This song is now 50 years old and it sounds like it would fit with contemporary dance music in a nightclub. Astonishing.
Tove Lo has used the melody line for one of her recent songs.
SIR Kingsley is 92 years old.I bet its because he listen to his own music.
No it's just Mr. Kingsley. He's German American and there's no mention of being knighted by the Queen in the biography on his website www.gershonkingsley.com/biography.html
No need to get technical.
96 now
He's 96 now.
ruclips.net/video/dZWfywvuHt0/видео.html
Listen to to Mr Kingsley, playing a part of this song 2007!
One of the best versions ever!!.I love the ethereal,futuristic vibe.It was way beyond its time.
The melodies are just great. I would still dance to it today. It creates a positive feeling. Great energy ♥
Wow !!! Simply incredible, the early days of trance music was born in the sixties. Way ahead of its time, forget rock n roll this was the real dance music of the future 🙏❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️🙏 Nov twenty two
Daam... 2019. This song is 50 years old and I love it.
『Popcorn』is Origin of Synthpop Music.
this Melody line for the Future ！
R. I. P. Gershon Kingsley Forever ∞
I was 4 when this came out. Heard it many times since, not necessarily the original version though. Never knew the name of the song until today in 2023! Amazing what he did with what would have been cutting-edge (for the time) technology that we couldn't properly comprehend nowadays! Came from TikTok to look for it. Listened to JMJ's version first. Didn't know it was a cover! AWESOMELY AMAZING!!!😊😊😊😊
This song is aged very well It still sounds like something you would hear today.
The World's First Electronic Hit ! Greets from Poland :) RiP Gershon Kingsley
The more I listen to this, the more I like it. I grew up listening to Hot Butter's version, but this is just so much more complex in terms of the instruments. Gershon Kingsley RIP, you're a legend
originally recorded in 1969 by Gershon Kingsley. In 1972, it was a huge hit in many countries when it was rerecorded by Hot Butter. "Popcorn" has since been covered by a great number of artists.
It's 2022 and this track not sounds old; it's other level...🔝🔝🔝
before Vangelis, JMJ or even Kraftwerk !!
I wonder if Gershon Kingsley ever gets his credits he deserve for this masterpiece i mean come on 1969 ''Beatles, Bee Gees and he composed this !!
+Roelof Buter Actually, he did, twice. The first one under the pseudonym "The Popcorn Orchestra" and the second one under the pseudonym Jamie Jefferson
+lws133 and Oxygene pt 4 bears an uncanny resemblance to Popcorn slowed down.
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Jamie Jefferson = popcorn Orchestra = Jean-Michel Jarre.
Yeah this was the song that basically made electronic music into actual music before electronic music was just random noise and kraftwerk basically made it more popular
One of the most influential tracks of all time
The great grampa of dubstep and skrilex.
You can't compare Mr. Kingsley to Shittex, hehe :D
Let's all celebrate 50 years of electro music!
Grazie, Signore Gershon Kingsley. :)
Without you, this kind of music may not have been expanded this far as it has today.
First time İ heart this song in 1978 - that was unforgettable!
Beautiful! Sounds more like rain drops than pop corn. What I remember well was the bubbly 1972 version, which I loved as an 8-9-year-old.
Give it up for the mother of all electronic music. This is where it started.
RIP to Gershon Kingsley and thank for having pioneered electronic music
Imagine alguém há meio século atrás, pegar um gênero de música que não existia no mercado, que se resumia à experimentos com sons eletrônicos crus feitos em estúdios isolados. O cara torna isto mais digerível, em formato comercial e lança-o no mercado com grande repercussão. Um gênero novo que só seria popular e lucrativo dali à décadas!!!
Isto foi o que Gershon Kingsley fez lá no final dos anos 60. Gênio é pouco...
Electronic music has always existed it was invented in 1929 I think except it wasn’t really music and was mostly experimenting with making music with electronics and wasn’t very mainstream like it is now even at the time this song came out it still wasn’t mainstream
Achei um Brasileiro uhhhuuu✌️
Imagine being 20 years before your time and still making it hats off to them
very beautiful the very first version of this song.... we love