Hot Butter - Popcorn - 1972

[@merseydave1]

This track is Hot Butter and it came out in 1972 ... the 1969 TOTP footage was from Popcorn at a slightly slower pace! you cannot fool people who remember it like me.

[@SageLittleHawk]

I think Jean Michel Jarre sampled from this. It sounds familiar.

[@patrickeffiom97]

I'd love to see the 1972 version of this.One of my earliest memories 'cause I would have been only 4 yrs old.

[@JeremyHarany]

Hot Butter was the name of the band that covered it in 1972, and this is that version. It was written by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 and that version can be heard here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJvbf6Gnich7nsk

[@wtstfire]

Yes, I'm old enough to remember 1969. And this song. You are correct, Sir. This song pre-dated the "Motown" and "Disco" eras.

[@Joeytaters74]

Doctor who song 1963

[@alyzu4755]

I absolutely loved this dong as a kid! And still love it as an old lady. 🥰

[@ww1980kolo]

Loved the dong, eh?

[@alyzu4755]

@ww1980kolo Oops! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danityvanityinsanity]

Can’t it be both?😏

[@alyzu4755]

@danityvanityinsanity 😂😂😂

[@dennisyoung4631]

Vietnamese currency, eh? (Note: the unit of currency there is the *dong.)*

[@soulcrewblue8629]

Way ahead of its time, a classic of its genre, a big influence on the future of electronic music.

[@ricknelson947]

I’ll never forget that summer of 72. Having to rebuild after the flood caused by Hurricane Agnes in upstate NY. Only had a radio for entertainment for 6 months or so.

[@SCOTTBULGRIN]

I haven't heard this song in decades.

[@michaelmcelligott6336]

It was on the record player too

[@bertroost1675]

I have this album. The cover has two movie popcorn containers glued to it and when you take the shrink wrap off they will fold out into proper containers. Mine is still in the shrink.

[@cindydott452]

OMG! My mom has it too!

[@desert.mantis]

Wow! Try doing that with a CD Or digital file.🤓

[@bertroost1675]

@@desert.mantis To be honest if the Japanese released it I wouldn't be surprised if it was a scaled down perfect reproduction of the LP in CD form.

[@paste1988]

All the young ladies and guys in this clip, are approx 70 or 80 years old now 😮

[@jamesjeske7420]

It happens to everyone if you live long enough.

[@steven_vogt]

Yep 😇😁

[@jamesure2426]

Or dead

[@deanprince8602]

And they will always be cooler than Gen Z.

[@TheBrummie60]

Wonder what they think when they watch themselves as kids all those years ago?

[@olaspaz3079]

I was just humming this while i was waiting for the kettle to boil. Phones listen.....😟

[@roadrunner5219]

The version from Gershon Kingsley was never played on Top of the Pops in 1969. The ladies dance to a different song from HORACE FAITH - Black Pearl TOTP 15.10.70. Hot Butter's version was later played on TOTP at Christmas 1972.

[@thisbambibites]

This is the Hot Butter version.

[@chrisbrown5020]

Was thinking along similar lines. 1) wasn’t a big single hit in 1969 2) dancing out of sync. Can the original poster clear up, is it a friendly montage?

[@Lucretiaseesall]

The person who is playing the synthétiser is my Father, Stan Free!!!

[@Decimator-jh4gu]

That's awesome. Thanks for letting us know, very cool.​@Lucretiaseesall

[@snoqueen313]

DEFINITELY NOT Horace faith's Black Pearl

[@fuferito]

This banger anthem keeps being resurrected decade after decade, from cold syrup ads to dance club favourite reboots.

[@azure628]

I haven't heard this in a very long time and it's so nice to be able to hear it again. 😊❤

[@sergiocampanale3882]

This was used as the theme tune of an Italian variety show that played during the mid 1970s. I remember as a child being fascinated by it and even getting my parents to buy me the 45 rpm. I couldn't find it for years until I recently found it again on the 45rpm Nostalgia channel - Still sounds good even today.

[@jubi400]

I remember doing P.E. with this song way back in my elementary school days.

[@goredongoredon]

I recieved K-tel's 22 Explosive Hits as a Christmas present that year (1972?). Hot Butter by Popcorn and ChickaBoom by Daddy Dewdrops were my favorite songs and why I asked for the record.

[@sandalwhich]

Ha, I remember this song from grade school in the 70s.

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

I think this perfectly captures the transition from the 60's hippie rock era to the disco era.

[@TokenTombstone]

HEllo great assessment however that is not what your mom said.

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

@@TokenTombstone folks, this is why we don't drunk post.

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

@@TokenTombstone what does that even mean?

[@TokenTombstone]

@@Cultural_Supremacist We will find meaning at the bottom of this bottle. Cheers!

[@OnusBones]

Shades of "Dig Dug!"

[@zarrow50]

Was that game like Mr Do?

[@OnusBones]

@@zarrow50 I'm not familiar with that one. Dig Dug was a PC game that used this tune as its theme/background.

[@dahak2112]

Or “Pengo.”

[@dahak2112]

@@zarrow50Dig Dug is a lot like Mr. Do, but the character is armed with a bicycle pump to blow up the enemies (though you can still drop boulders on them as well like in Mr. Do.) Rounds are completed by killing or chasing away all the enemies, instead of getting all the rows of fruit.

[@zarrow50]

@@dahak2112 great days playing those games

[@OLDGOLDDREAMER]

Gershwin Kingsley in 1969 was the first , Hot Butter Popcorn came out in July 1972

[@Simonsvids]

What about Telstar!

[@shaunwalley]

How we danced back then to how we dance today, good god LOL.🤣💝

[@garethbeare8741]

This reminds me of the 1970s. Don't ask me how. I was a child in the 70s and somehow remembercthis

[@paulonius42]

We don't need to ask you how because you literally explained how. You were a child in the 70s, so it reminds you of the 70s. I was a child in the 70s, and this reminds me of the 70s. That's how memories work.

[@MelliaBoomBot]

Gosh, everyone is so pretty 😊

[@dodibenabba525]

No tatts no fatts......

[@davidgapp1457]

At least they're not fat.

[@markthomas9703]

The girl in green is about the prettiest I've ever seen

[@nizammahmadi2963]

I've been looking for this song for so long thank god I found it here. This song was used as an intro for a maths tv programme in the Malaysian government run education TV back in the eighties and nineties and I basically watch that programme just to listen to this song.

[@ForeverMrZaphaell]

I still like the Swedish Chef version better!

[@audiodead7302]

I love this song. This will sound unbelievable, so I'm not sure I should even be saying this. But when I hear it, I actually travel back to 1969 and find myself in this video. Does that happen to anyone else?

[@vinceraven1501]

Oh yeah! Roxette - The Look Chicago - Look Away Alice Cooper - Poison Bon Jovi - I'll Be There For You Savatage - Handful of Rain Green Jelly - 3 Little Pigs Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

[@benharyo]

As late as the early 90s this song was still popular among PC gamers due to being the BGM for the highly-successful game "Digger" by Windmill software

[@alfredlahue1141]

I really liked this song I haven't heard for a long

[@MI_Prepper]

Long hair and NO tattoos! Beautiful NATURAL women!

[@dave3657]

I was ten when this came out and I remember putting a coin in the jukebox and playing it. ☺️

[@jamesluther3506]

I remember listening to this song while riding in the back of my parents full sized green Chevrolet on the way from Asheboro to Denton NC as a very young child

[@kelterskelter4]

The drum work is outstanding. The pace, sections, variation and the spacy organ trilling and cymbal work and then chorus. Little drum kicks, make this an outstanding composition imho.

[@TimothyBall-mv3lp]

12-2-2024. Save a giant bowl for me! Very little butter on my corn- popped.

[@patanq6177]

The year I was born, a sign maybe? I've only listened to electronic music for almost my whole life, and this track is excellent. Timeless in my opinion.

[@Coolboy-nw7vp]

You were born in 1969?

[@patanq6177]

No 1972, the same year that the group Hot Butter recorded a new version of Popcorn. Stan Free (en), former collaborator of Kingsley in 1972

[@Coolboy-nw7vp]

@@patanq6177 Oh... Ok

[@MariusNica-l3q]

Corect

[@oopswrongplanet4964]

Yes, the original song was from 1969; the "Hot Butter" version (more popular) was from 1972.

[@David-yw2lv]

I first heard this record in 1972.

[@jerfacekilla]

I remember my brother having the 45 and telling me 'This is the future.' 😂

[@emilysigmund1255]

I'm amazed i recognize this song... i was born in 1987!

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

That's because it's iconic. 👍

[@Grizzlox]

I have a theory that people will still listen to this song in some form or another 200 years from now. It will survive

[@ronnyvonallmen6892]

Still have my Original “Hot Butter” Album….

[@SK-hellogoodbye]

This music was written by Götz Gustav Ksinski, a German. He is also known as Gershon Kingsley and had to leave Germany in 1938 as his father was Jewish.

[@daxbashir6232]

What a hardcore rave, eh?! :D

[@ragnorremix8426]

0:53 pretty girl with black top and white skirt was ahead of her time, she reminded me of the deelite dance

[@mb4lunch]

I heard it on Sirius XM a few weeks ago. Always loved it

[@SalocinDotTEN]

the Digger game on the floppy disk had this as the soundtrack.

[@joaomariareisjunior7022]

Lembro sim, melo das bolinhas feitas com o látex dos balões estourados.

[@benwinter2420]

We like to surround ourselves with art

[@mmille10]

Wow. I used to hear this song in computer music I played in the early 1990s. I assumed the original was more recent.

[@GJB1]

Yeah right, a TOTP 1970 clip to a 1972 release!

[@fairuzmaileen5691]

Great ambience: no cellphones, everyone dancing

[@cesarcardenas3893]

Lo que más me gusta de los 70' es que no había ni mucho sobrepeso ni mucho maquillaje, solo baile y más baile

[@GatzReformed]

solo un bobo pensaria que no habia mucho maquillaje, o que "no habia mucho sobrepeso" cuando la television simplemente escogia la gente mas estereotipica. Hay que salir a la calle de vez en cuando.

[@kennyharris2407]

​@@GatzReformed There were NOT as many FAT people in the 70s, i only had one in my class at school... Fat bods are everywhere now...🤮 Open your eyes Fatty😂🤣🤣

[@susieily]

Love this ❤

[@purpleku7768]

I was 14 and bought the 45 of it

[@steverakes6182]

Excellent!

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Trippy. It's not really my thing, but I know someone who... ... delay that, I once *knew* someone who would quite enjoy this. Would probably go on their playlist for at least 3-6 months.

[@bobbarker1476]

No lowlife tattoos ❤

[@meyou-dv8ns]

The Beatles wrote this song in 1776 then gave it to frank Zappa in 1805. but he never recorded it and sold it to The Grateful Dead for $50 in 1928. and they played it live for 40 years and then told Taylor Swift to do it and she did in 2016 and she fucked it up and no one liked it anymore.

[@SuperCreeper666]

I must confess this is the song I actually lost my virginity to. The very first time I got laid this was the track on the radio that wonderful night.

[@whollymindless]

Is that Duane Dibley at @2:06?

[@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu]

I want some of whatever theyve taken😅

[@AlCrisler]

How did I find this lol 🎉🎉

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

Depends how loosely you define "electronic" - Telstar by The Tornados a decade earlier was the first hit single (and #1) to feature lead electronic instrumentation... Popcorn was the first to feature a Moog synth - I'm assuming that is what the description is getting at... Neither song is performed completely electronically though, as both feature drums, and Telstar has a guitar interlude... Several earlier examples exist that feature early synthesizers, but only as a cosmetic trapping

[@dougbrowning82]

The original 1939 recording of "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn features a solo accompaniment by Arthur Young on a Hammond Novachord.

[@robertpolnicky7702]

I always wondered about that red river valley instrumental. That nay have been a synthesizer.

[@Andermander429]

Are we seriously forgetting Runaway by Del Shannon? The first use of a moog in a pop song.

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

@Andermander429 yes, we are, seeing as Runaway was released in 1961, and the Moog did not exist then (the Moog was not invented until 1964, let alone used in a pop song!)... The keyboard solo on Runaway was performed on a Musitron (a variation on a Clavioline)

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

@@dougbrowning82 was that a hit single though? It was from 1939 - I might be wrong, but as far as I'm aware no music charts existed until the 1950s so it's more difficult to define what constituted a hit single before then?

[@merseydave1]

People who like This Tune (as the footage does not fit this track) type in Hot Butter 1972 and you will get this track with the appropriate footage with it. As I have said ... this footage comes from The B.B.C. 's Top of The Pops charts show in 1969, they are dancing to Gerson Kingsley's Pop Corn.

[@elusivepassages]

Just think....the hot chicks are old ladies now

[@davevan8864]

Had the 45 rpm vinyl, rent it to a friend who left it on the dash of his car....no more record!

[@PhantasyStarved]

lady at 1:35 dodgin' bullets LOL

[@stephensmith8316]

She's doing "The Matrix" 😅

[@MrRicehard]

It's shirt minus the r. I love it. :)

[@deemdoubleu]

Is that Tony Blackburn from @2:08?

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

People are looking at each other thinking "How do you dance to this?"

[@stephenhowell5611]

originally top of the pops 15 oct 1970 audience dancing to black pearl by horace faith

[@earthdate3495]

A glimpse into what was to come...

[@ВладимирЛобанов-л3й]

Кукуруза кукуруза Ты гибрииидная По всему ты по Союзу Стала вииидная!)))

[@djvids6921]

I thought this was a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket 👍 trick.

[@thoughtsurferzone5012]

Nothing like dancing to a pinball SFX.

[@tubalcain1039]

I remember 'popcorn' a long time ago.

[@alesk3620]

Nice 😁

[@marcse7en]

They'll all be pensioners now! 🤣

[@glengamble526]

Luckily someday you will be too…

[@marcse7en]

@@glengamble526 That will actually be in around 4 years!

[@garryirons7203]

People in this video are mid 70s plus hard to believe

[@stephenhowell5611]

1970

[@ryder4508]

Far out, man.

[@WilliamFisher-jn4ul]

I was 4 😂

[@bagelispoulos8275]

great

[@fodoradolf]

Jes👍👍👍

[@SlartibartfastTheFourth]

Tony Blackburn facing right at 2.09 !

[@Launchpad05]

Sega would use this song for their arcade game 'Pengo'.

[@luisenriquepardonlarosa]

I never thought that song was danced to. What I have come to find out.

[@blaxter101]

Get down!!

[@HueJackCity66]

I keep seeing the Peanuts gang dancing.

[@earthtruthhunters1642]

That's a lot of REAL girls man...

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Why didn't they follow this up with 'Pancakes And Waffles' or 'Corn On The Cob'?

[@nickalkire1187]

This is when techno is born……like Kraftwerk!!!

[@Dahstin]

Boop Boop Boop beep beeep boop boo boop.

[@jayveebloggs9057]

every fairground in the UK

[@waynekapka2274]

Everyone in the video is a grandparent now

[@Perseuskraken]

If even alive......

[@jamesellis3583]

Surely Telstar was the first electronic single?

[@djunderbeat]

This is second version

[@TheloniousSphere]

Sliver Apples had them beat by at least 3 years.

[@bobegan2121]

This is awesome. Sort of like Kraftwerk

[@rayceeya8659]

Music to Moog to.

[@ColinBarrett001]

Has this guy intentionally announced the date wrong to get comments? Oh wait...😅

[@DTD110865]

Oh, if they only knew what bands like The Cars and Tubeway Army were going to do by the end of the next decade.

[@richardsmith4950]

Shrooooooms, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@grantcaldwell1582]

Shakespearean, actually.

[@grantcaldwell1582]

/As you like it/