Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn - The world's first electronic hit single (TOTP 1969)
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Popcorn" is an early synth-pop instrumental, composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 and first appearing on his album Music to Moog By.
The same year it was released and recorded at Audio Fidelity Records label in New York City. The title may refer to the short staccato or sharp "popping" sound used, or to pop music and its being 'corny', i.e., kitschy.[3] The title is generally written as one word, although some single sleeves (such as the one illustrated) present it as two words, "Pop Corn."
In 1972, Hot Butter's rerecording was a huge hit in many countries. "Popcorn" has since been covered by a great number of artists.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
😢 LSD, heroin and kid's on the future
Other way around: the kids now prefer Tik Tok trash.
ДА ) Чувак, да... назад в будущее👍
e. really. it's too early for them )
@@user-gu8oe5ds4qif you reduce electronic music to that I am not sure if you understood music in general
When you create a whole new music genre and no one knows how to dance to it yet
all the moves seem unnatural, the lips don't match the words, maybe its fake? no, no way, its impossible. What do you mean "fake"?
The girl in the cream trousers and black top nailed it though
Exactly my thought when I saw this - a lot of the dancers look bored - they couldn't find the underlying beat - it's disguised by the varying speed of the different levels of sounds - probably recorded separately and blended for the end result which sounds (to me) cluttered and muddy, not to mention, a little too fast.
>implying we still know how to dance it
@@dmitryshadoff6012 It's because they were all on LSD. That's why the lips don't match the words. It's the LSD effect. It's not a fake. It's real. 100%
Extremely old school British atmosphere for no reason
It was 1969
What are you on about? American bandstand had the same basic setup right up until 2002.
RIP Gershon Kingsley, a true pioneer of electronic music.
WHAT?! No f**king way... :(
Kraftwerk too
Giorgio Moroder and Gershon composed eletronic music in 1969 whereas Kraftwerk were making noises.
🙏
@tecdessus right!!
after 50 (!!!) years you still can play this (with a bit of a 4/4 kick maybe) on any house/dance party and the crowd would be cheering and shouting :) incredible visionary track. r.i.p. mr kingsley. you rule.
I'm pretty sure it would work just fine as it is, just enhance the bass frequencies a little... If that doesn't work, try the Boomtang Boys' cover. One of the best covers I've seen so far.
And people will insist on telling you that i feel love was the first electro dance tune. Watch and learn
This would have got me on the floor in the early nineties all the way
please check out tove lo's 2 die 4. it samples this song and goes harder than anything i've listened to in a long long time. pure dance vibes
There's a cover version by Caustic Window (aka Aphex Twin) from 1992 that might be a bit more compatible with club music than the original or the Hot Butter version. Has some nice breakbeaty rhythm.
Still listening to this in 2024
I’m still listening to Human League. Enjoy.
2024 and I still claim this is the best TECHNO tune ever !
It's not even close to being techno 😂 only Americans say that, and they invented it, or took the credit for it 😅
It's NOT Techno
Gloria Gaynor I feel love I think.
@@markshepperson3603
You mean Donna Summer I feel Love !
@@user-pr5zs6uq8u yes, ooops. Thanks.
In later Soviet Union that music was played in our summer scout camp! In 1984! To call us to the breakfast! Amazing! Great melody. Still recall it now in 2023!
The USSR should have banned that music in 1984 especially in the pre-glasnost era, because at that time, the USSR was still Communist, and state-sponsored repression of any music that offended the Communist party's ideals in the country lingered on until Gorbachev. My two bits.
I suppose that arrangement was taken from the cartoon "Nu pogodi!".
@@charlessmith263 Get well, poor brain washed i.d.iot 😂😂
It's difficult to believe that these people are at least 70 years old, now. I think it shows that you have to enjoy life while you can.
Or dead.
Absolutely!
im 45 ,, thks mom thks dad i look younger ^^ but yeah it nescessary to enjoy to love to MAKE LOVE with life yes !
@therookpiece: You absolutely express all I think. I was born in december 1969. So, this is a real time-machine experience living in 2022.
So true!
Wow, this was 20 yrs ahead of its time. It's a weird combo of hearing dance synth whilst watching the dying embers of 1960s culture.
They are actually dancing to a song called black pearl on T.O.T.P lol.
Look it up on here.
I love how people dancin to this. They all got their own way to do it, that's so cool
Dancing to Black Pearl! reggae music 😅
Fake video, fake title, and not even released as a single in the 60s 😅
I can't belive this is from the 1969 it sounds like from 9691
bradengels hu what
Spring of 1972 is when this song came out.
@@4gauge10 Nah mate, that's the Hot Butter version you're on about. Gershon made at least 3 versions of the song before that - the one in the video is the very first.
@@tsguyoldchannel2691 According to what's written on my vinyl record cover from the recording company of this song,it says..."the very FIRST fully computerized song in 1972".
@@4gauge10 That's strange, because I've looked online and it was definitely released in 1969.
this is like a time machine! we look into 1969, but they are grooving on our 2022 music! it's astounding how far ahead of time Mr. Kingsley was with this
More like 1999-2000 music
Blonde girl (black top/white skirt) 00:44 and 1:09, absolutely nailing that rhythm. Chapeau.
You missed her at 2:01 ! 😉
I think the one behind her (blue/purple dress) 'gets it' too. Actually throwing some shapes!
hahahah they are even not listening to this song hahaha
@@zgaming6806 they are not listening to this song haha
it's the same clip at both parts lol
Many of them are grandparents. They nurse grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Life goes on 🙏
or dead
God help you if you discover old movies.. nothing but prayers for the long departed 😅
Some will still be alive. It's 1969 not 1939 🥳 even Paul and Ringo were big boys (not so much Ringo) in 69, and they still have hair unlike myself 👩🏻🦲😂
They're all boomers.
@@dreamlandnightmarereally
Great song! Way ahead of its time.
Pretty crazy to think the majority of the folks in that video dancing are around 70 years old now.
Yep.Especially that officially synth-pop was created in 1977
Please don't remind me.... :-(.
Indeed it was ahead of its time! It predicted the next twenty years of musical genres of disco, synth and rave all at once
If they're still alive, that is.
The pretty Girl at 0:54 ...if she was 25 Years old in 1969 ...if shes still alive...she is 77 Years old today
I would so happy to know some Names of the Audience Dancers 😔
i watching this with tears in my eyes..simply beautiful ..and look at this happy peoples/dancers ..how nice is been this back in the day...loooong times ago...i was born 5 years later when this nice music come out...listen many many times..even today, still my favorite music ..Rip Mr. Kingsley !!
It's funny to see their faces, they're trying to figure out a dance for this
1:47 girl was so close to inventing the floss 😂
They are dancing on" BLACK PEARL" SONG & not on this mixed music.
1st Ecstasy broadcast
They need to do Mr Krabs’ robotic boogie
I think they're doing great!
So many lovely ladies...
when women were still women
The rave/dance/trance scene a decade before it existed
Two decades even
How many of these ravers are on LSD? XD
January 2022 and dare i say there are many people out there still listening to this beautifully haunting and poignant sound from yesteryear. It has certainly stood the test of time. 🙏❤🇬🇧🇬🇧❤🙏
Why does this video make me teary eyed emotional?? Seeing everyone just vibing in their own world looks so refreshing.
The day the rave was born 30 years ahead of it's time.
Lol, 1989 had raves, you don't need to go as far as 1999.
100%.
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2fast4uspartan is so right ( lovely song the Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn ( peace for you all my friends )
this is unbelievable
90s Kid: I was one of the original ravers!
Their Parents: Hold my acid tabs
And then, at the peak of Rock 'n Roll, a new era of music was born: Electronica came into being!!
Did they realize how cool they're all looking?
And the girls look so beautiful.
0:54 ...Shes my Favorite 😍🤤
Not at all if you ask me. They look so awkward dancing and act like they’re on drugs.
I'm 57 and remember my teacher playing this when I was 5 in kindergarten.
Stayed with me,always loved bands live Kraftwerk etc.
Ditto. This one of the first radio songs that i remember.
Beautiful ladies, I grew up listening this tune, Hot butter 1972, and other great melodies that my father daily heard on the radio station 6 20 in México City back in the 70s, love 70s and 80s.
Love the dancing the lad in the green shirt 😄
And his girlfriend in the brown skirt and jumper. I hope those two got married and had 10 kids and a wonderful life of joy and adventure. They looked so happy!
This tune is the same age as me, but its aged better. Most of the kids dancing here will be in their 70's now.
Just imagine, most of those kids dancing to the music in that video are in their 70's now.
they are not dancing to this song hhahahahaha
This piece is freaking timeless, that's how good it is.
Just popped into my head, at 60 hrs old I didn't remember I was 6 yrs old then.
Absolutely the best version of the song, ahead of its time by 20 or 25 years
I inadvertently walked into a Gershon Kingsley recording at the Record Plant in NYC. Tom Fly, former drummer of Lothar and the Hand People was the chief engineer. The sounds coming out of the playback monitors was nothing short of amazing.
Love the matching striped shirt and tie on the guy at 1:39
Good fashion
I want that outfit!
@@MALLUTRONICS gosh...?!
amazing, so eerie seeing people in the 60s dancing to this, cant believe this piece wasnt created in the 90s.
Girls were beautiful at those days as well)) Immortal song!
its great to see these older videos now..and see how much changed and hasn't changed in our life.
legendary mix...way ahead of time. Born in the 1980s and this one hooked my mind from school days.
Toll, seiner Zeit weit voraus, könnte auch heute noch locker einige Partys zum Beben bringen, für alle Zeiten/Generationen vorbildlich 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😀😃😃😄😁😆😆🤣😂🙂🙃😉😇🥰😗☺️😚🥲🥲😋😜🤪😝🤑🤗🤭💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💌💝💝💖💗💓💞💕💟💔❤️🔥❤️🩹❤💛✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤘🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍👍👍🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺💃💃💃💃💃💃💃, Musik aus einer anderen Galaxie!!!!!!!!!
Ah, a song intended to be futuristic that actually *was*
I've heard this song zillions of times in many versions, but didn't know what it was called or who composed and originally performed it until coming across this video. And to my ears the original is still the best.
the natural beauty of these ladies...just wow! and now compare it to all the plastic and botox you see in XXI
This completely makes my day......replay
You can hear that this song is 60s (melody wise it sounds like that at least) but at the same time you hear that todays music mostly evolved from it, by that I mean the electronic components. This is where modern music was born and you can hear it. Very important moment in music history.
If this is tune was played in this present day it would have been a hit!
So....55 years to the most cultious music theme and 55 years to the synthpop!
If only life was still this good
If only I had a green knitted waistcoat like the legend at 1:48
Wish i lived in that era 😞
Jajaja ! Que loco a los 52 años me vengo a enterar que hace 52 años ya se hacía la música electrónica que me encanta !
Así es... los primeros pasos.
Gershon Kingsley was waaay ahead of his time. Thanks for posting this! This is amazing and historic!
And people will insist i feel love was the electronic dance it. Watch and learn
RIP Gershon, and a MASSIVE Thankyou!!! xxx
I feel like I’ve gone back in a time machine when I watch this video. The faces could be any of us today. They all look cool 😎
Milestone in music history!
Absolute the best!
Gershon said in an interview that he didn’t have a name, and it was suggested by someone in studio.
He also said about the double meaning of pop(music) and corn (cheesy/kitsch)
I can’t get enough of this classic! Vid electric history!
Put a bass-line track and a drum machine underneath and nobody would realize that this trance is over 50 years old. Gigantic!
But trance is lame 😱
@@deanosaur808 I beg your pardon? 🤨 You mean *post '99* trance right? Reeeet???
Ahead of it's time! Everything evolved from the sixties! Beautiful people! ❤
oh my I was 3 when it came out ... these beautiful ladies are over 70 years old
Rip Gershon Kingsley ❤️
He made it to 97 physically, but his music is immortal.
Heck I thought he was still going, sad to hear this.
Irony dictating Tony Blackburn will be there in 2069 on a "revamped" TOTP to introduce this hit all over again.
@@Hertfordshire247 Did Gershon use a Bucchla synthesizer as well as the Moog?
@@charlessmith263 I have no idea what you're on about pal.
Уровень ламповости невероятно зашкаливает !!
I was born in -77 hard to think of this coming out before then, feels more 80's to me
Who said you couldn't dance to popcorn, love the smiles and the hair.
This is the most epic video I've seen this year!! Mind blown.
Really cool track! Very much ahead of its time. So much so, while a few people look like they are enjoying it and going with the flow, many seem as though they don't know quite what to do with it. Like an alien civilization first hearing our music for the first time. I'm sure this was a far cry from mainstream music that was popular during the era. It's like you are dumping the 90s rave club scene on them 30 years before it happened.
This one of my all time favorites as a music music producer
Popcorn and smack my bitch up are the 2 greatest pieces of electronic music.
1:47 raving hard, way before raves existed
51 años y este tema sigue sonando fresco, atemporalidad en su máxima expresión.
Can't say the same for the flesh.
There are some incredibly beautiful women in this clip but 1:25 takes the cake.
1:26 the bobbed redhead with the black choker necklace that appears here is stunningly gorgeous.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! WOW! :)
She looks very posh.
Countless georgeouses there..
Agreed... thanks for pointing out... missed that
❤️ seiner Zeit weit voraus
Gershon Kingsley, aka Götz Gustav Ksinski, born in Bochum, Germany, Oct. 1922, grew up in Berlin and fled Nazi Germany to USA in 1938 via a stopover on an Israeli kibbutz while his parents (his father was Jewish) went to USA via Cuba. Made several Moog (pronounced like "Vogue") albums with his French colleague and fellow pioneer, Jean-Jacques Perrey in the 60s. Wrote the 7" single 'Pop Corn' (correct spelling) in 1969 for another LP with Perrey (who wrote some tracks and arranged the music), 'Music to Moog By', released the same year. He died Dec. 10, 2019, aged 97.
Check them all out if you like this - Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey, First Moog Quartet and more at Discogs.com.
I come back and watch this way too often..This video is my spirit animal.
97 - Good innings! RIP Mr Kingsley.
Watching people (our granduncles & aunts) here in this video back then in 1969, first discovered such style and danced to it was something different and unique, like in a way! That was when trance and other known EDMs were born through a very sentimental synchronizing sound! As a trance lover, seriously I find this spectacular & didn't know of it until today, which makes me appreciate the older classics even more, because without such piece's existence, there will never be the newer ones like what we've got today which is spectacular. Honestly, my taste ranges from the 1980s, 90s, until the mid 2000s, & not so much of a fan of today's (late 2000s - present) trance music or EDM. Miss the good old days.😊
Love this version of popcorn so advanced for the time. Pretty ladies cute slim men young people in physical good health.
Музыка и 60-е г - класс! Девчонки офигенные!
Замечательная и великолепная эстрадная музыка!
I always tnought Kraftwerk were the pioneers of synth - never heard of this guy. Glad i found this.
Deberían reunir hoy de nuevo a toda esta gente para que vuelva a bailar esto. Estaría de lujo!
Sii pero en silla de ruedas ya estarán😂
fascinating... and the teenager on right 2:40 "geeh it was dope !"
Thank you Tove Lo for bring back this nostalgia. ❤️ #2Die4 #Popcorn
This is so cool. And I wanna go back in time 🥹
0:58 She knows she's got it. You know she's got it.
I’m in hysterics I love her
My Favorite is the pretty Girl at 0:54 ...0:55
Her little Smile ...her beautiful Face😍🤤
Today she must be around 77 Years old if shes still alive
Legend says that they are all still dancing to this on loop.
brilliant! So ahead of its time!
Such a great time capsule, years have passed but people still like to get their moves on and get on the dancefloor, brilliant!
Popcorn...exelente tema de 1969, con esta producción G.Kingsley creo la 2da evolución de la música electronica..género que no vería su 3ra evolución hasta el 76-77 con el inicio de la EDM y sus 2 primeras ramas el NRG & Synthpop de Giorgio Moroder.
estas obviamndo al maestro de la revolución electrónica Jean Michel Jarre
Merci Marc AJ via son Compositeur : "1969 par Gershon Kingsley." .*☆🕺 🎼💖╰⊰✿🎼
An age of innocence, wonderment, thought provoking, fear, unknowing, hope and inspiration.
Heard this song my whole life but never knew what it was called until now.
So cool it was created when I was born 1969 yay I was part of something phenomenal.
Girl in the black top and white skirt gets it. World's first rave kid.
Nostalgia de um tempo que eu não vivi, mto louca essa sensação..
The guy in light green is really enjoying it hahaha.
I just noticed that he died 3 days ago. Such a shame that no news reports have told me. RIP
oh! I learned it today !
I am with you all the way. So sad about gershon passing away and yet only this last week or two i saw him talking about popcorn on you tube. R I P. The pioneer of trance music. 😎👍❤😎 Dec 2019 dance on to to the popcorn everybody ❤still way ahead of its time
Wow! Never thought what "Popcorn" had so old music video. I have always thought it's just a music for everybody and for all times.
Popcorn is a classic! Maybe the most re-recorded eletronic song ever...
I love how no one cares. They’re just enjoying the music
Was born this year. :-)
screw the current year! I wanna move to this timeline
I wish I was living in those times…