Popcorn song on Moog synthesizer

[@davidjazay9248]

All the optimism and naivety of the space age, encapsulated in one song.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i would put Telstar into that category, about the same era!

[@xsc1000]

@@WoodyPianoShack But Telstar is from 1963, this is from 1972 (original version 1969).

[@Accountdeactivated_1986]

It almost feels like they’re assuming the future will be highly sexualized. Reminds me of Star Trek. Not so much optimistic as inevitable.

[@SweetTreat-wl2yl]

@@Accountdeactivated_1986 I used to think Star Trek showed things we might have in the future. Pocket communicator, medical scanners, etc. When MRI's and cell phones first showed up I thought, "Yeah! Like Star Trek!" Now I've learned more and realize the writers of the show (and many other shows) were simply showing what was already coming. Like prototypes for ideas. Still waiting for a matter transporter, tho... I have places to go and green-skinned extra-terrestrials to meet.

[@paulklee5790]

@@Accountdeactivated_1986 Wasn’t it?

[@vickings]

The dancing girls: Louise Clarke (1949-2012) Babs Lord (1945-) Patricia (Dee Dee) Wilde (1946-) Cherry Gillespie (1955-) Ruth Pearson (1946-2017)

[@kw7400]

Sorry no Louise Clarke here. She quit and Sue Menhenick in the pink top replaced her.

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Loved them all. Especially Ruth

[@deniz_ildir]

@@kw7400 there are two pink dancers, one light pink, and another in darker pink. especially the darker pink is gorgeous, who is she?

[@kw7400]

@@deniz_ildir Dark pink (purple) is Cherry Gillespie Light pink is Sue Menhenick Green is Dee Dee Wilde Blue is Babs Lord Yellow is Ruth Pearson

[@tonydesmet7389]

Wow guys, you're all real connoisseurs! It is remarkable how beauty doesn't age, isn't it?

[@TheHorsebox2]

Popcorn never gets old. I was going to say Popcorn never gets stale, but that would have been a terrible joke.

[@crazyd4371]

Popcorn gets stale after 15mins out of the bag

[@TheHorsebox2]

@@crazyd4371 Hah, sure does..

[@billkeithchannel]

But your pun was smooth as butter.

[@TheHorsebox2]

@@billkeithchannel Hah... thank you. 🤣

[@atlanteum]

I thought the comments would be a lot saltier -

[@Dulcimerist]

Popcorn is an original song by Gershon Kingsley from 1969, off of his "Music to Moog By" album. Gershon Kingsley is one of the original Moog synthesizer pioneers, and many people mimicked his style, including Hot Butter.

[@javieralarcon1485]

Aqui en el peru una radio emisora lo usaba como cortina musical, desde el 69 hasta el 75 aproximadamente, era 7na radio juvenil, que bella epoca, recuerdo la pelicula francesa de fantomas y la serie britanica oxni..exitos 😊

[@towertone]

this is not the version I had on my K-Tel "22 Explosive Hits" album!!

[@specialed6357]

Oh, I thought the Swedish Chef invented it.

[@joeskis]

you sure that wasn't Giovanni Giorgio but everybody calls him Giorgio?

[@mattsyson3980]

@@towertone I am guessing that K Tel used session musicians to avoid royalties to some extent so the records could be cheaper.

[@AdamSpade]

Why I always have this recommended? Because every time I watch it I like it. 😎🥃

[@roneycorrea]

Same here 🤣

[@samprock]

Now it’s a synthporn 😂

[@cujoedaman]

Growing up, all I remember hearing was "synthesizers aren't real instruments". It wasn't until my 20's that I made the realization that "you still need to know how to play a piano to use one".

[@Kualinar]

It was actually much more complex to be proficient in a synthesizer than the piano. Look at that MOOG for a moment. Only 24 keys keyboard, but can play notes higher and lower than a piano. Can emulate many instruments, and produce sounds that no conventional instrument can hope to produce. This whole performance was done with ONLY a single MOOG synthesizer and no other instrument.

[@petcatznz]

Anyone who said they were not real instruments must not have listened to what Keith Emerson of ELP could do with one.

[@stephenlitten1789]

@@petcatznz Exactly. Keith was a genius

[@sarvolfe6435]

Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis would disagree with the not real instruments thing, though I do believe for the most part their weapon of choice was the Fairlight.

[@Toby_the_Glen]

It helps but it's not actually essential?

[@TheComedyGeek]

One of my fave all-time MST3K lines is, "You can't stop us! We've got Moog synthesizers!" :)

[@mrjohnklake]

Lemme guess….it was Crow making that outrageous comment? He is the only reason I have ever watched MST3K.

[@TheComedyGeek]

@@mrjohnklake I think so, yes.

[@Imm77star]

Which MST was that line in?

[@TheComedyGeek]

@@Imm77star Ooh, sorry, I don't remember.

[@chipsramek3868]

I bought a Stratocaster guitar for My daughter when she was 12 ... The first rock song She learned was "7 Nation Army"..... that made my day. "Teach Your Children Well".

[@rubioblack]

I taught my daughter as one of her first on my Fender Bass. 🥹🥲

[@thomascollins4325]

The women were lovely with no tattoos or body piercings. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@worldtraveler930]

I second that motion!!! 🤠👍

[@dielaughing73]

Imagine how much hotter they'd be with them

[@mr.pavone9719]

@@dielaughing73 They wouldn't be.

[@Benneducci]

None at all? I think we need to ...examine them more closely, just to be sure. ;)

[@harbingerofkharma]

and all that glorious NATURAL hair!!

[@brucevipond2222]

High waisted jeans, Gogo boots and halter tops - what a great time to be alive!

[@gregschneider6844]

Where is Frida would have been best go go dancer of all time

[@btsr2553]

You forgot to mention the A-cups!

[@brucevipond2222]

@@btsr2553 gottaA love those A’s!

[@BLECHHAUS]

In the past, in the valley of my youth, many things were better.

[@eugenius_viridi]

Only in early 70's people would dancing so energised to music like this 🌚

[@hughjass1044]

Well, it was worth it just to see those gorgeous 70s girls moving and grooving!

[@greggpeters5662]

And now they're in their '70s. 😂

[@hughjass1044]

@@greggpeters5662 I'm not far behind but I live in the past for a few minutes at a time with these flashbacks.

[@usaturnuranus]

​@@hughjass1044right there with ya.

[@chipsramek3868]

@@greggpeters5662 I concur ... not as wild as ... "All My Friends Have Died ... They were all my friends and just died"

[@worldtraveler930]

Good memories of fun times I'll cherish those days to the end of mine!!! 🤠👍

[@rdm5190]

8 years old and this the first synthesizer song i really remember, that and incredible Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" left a lasting impression on me.... Maybe thats why I ended up today wth a room full of synths&musical equipment

[@tonipepperoni3424]

I love synthesizers so much, regardless if its software or hardware, they are so fun to play with

[@sethraelthebard5459]

This was my first exposure to the Moog synthesizer, almost 10 years before I discovered the magic of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Kieth Emerson was and always will be, in my opinion, the uncontested virtuoso master of the Moog!

[@RadicalCaveman]

@@tonipepperoni3424 They feel the same way about you.

[@christopherharmon2433]

IIRC that was done with an ARP 2600.

[@Dave1507]

I remember this playing on a turntable and me and a mate just jumping on and off the couch just having a blast (before you ask, yes, we were little kids back then!)

[@jayyates1676]

In Elementary music class our class would beg the teacher to play this record all the time. It was the early 70s.

[@samberdecia6929]

Robert Moog was my late girlfriend's cousin. She was quite proud of him.

[@Kualinar]

And very rightfully so, That guy was a genius.

[@Mark-td5ux]

Without him no 80s synth pop !​@@Kualinar

[@pwabd2784]

Hot Butter only covered this song, Gershon Kingsley is the original artist and this was released in 1969.

[@rentonsadboy9366]

thank you will look that up

[@ubiquitousreverser]

Wile E Coyote wha?

[@YouzTube99]

Let's make this easy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYS1dJijm5d9fsU Complete with black and white kaleidoscopic graphics!

[@christopherpscott]

Haha thats funny mang!! Holy shit!

[@christopherpscott]

Yeah he had a few KEYS on him also I heard???

[@Cookie-kf3xn]

Oh, those lovely dancing ladies made my day ...

[@Barry101er]

Pan’s People (Top of the Pops dancers when there was no band that could come on).

[@richardballinger517]

When women were women.

[@Lumibear.]

@@richardballinger517 and men were grateful.

[@FAIRYGIRL911]

​@@Lumibear.they damn sure aren't now

[@Lumibear.]

@@FAIRYGIRL911 I think it might be illegal

[@ooshta]

I remember when that instrumental came out. I loved it right away and thought it was cool. Just think those girls in this video (that are still with us) are in their late 70s to 80 years old now. RIP to the ones that passed to early. ❤

[@butziporsche8646]

When I was a kid, I had the hots for Cherry Gillespie. So cute and petite! Especially in that baby doll thing she was wearing in Do The Hustle!

[@DrWapoose]

Felt the same way lol. Shes pure beauty aint she?

[@r0cketplumber]

My fifth grade music teacher in 1970 was a cool lady, and played Popcorn for us in class.

[@Mr_ToR]

cherry gillespie, what a beauty.

[@robertjohnston4280]

Yeah, she was something else. Dusky and mysterious.

[@Player_36C]

I dig those '70s outfits on those babes 👍🏻

[@elsupremo6037]

No tattoos, no metal scrap in the the face and no breast implants no botox or these stupid ducklips. Just pure women. I love them 😍

[@davidgifford8112]

Pans people, something for a teenage boy to drool over during Top of the Pops.

[@nicomal]

Uy si que ricas. Y flaquitas

[@edwardboe7290]

They're groovy!

[@worldtraveler930]

I second that motion!!! 🤠👍

[@johnlushlife]

Ahhh, the 70s! The last time I ever thought I was "Cool!!" LOL ☺😂

[@adiero]

I remember listening to this on an lp in the 60's. Watching this I feel ancient and new born at the same time. I have love these synths from the first time I heard one in 67ish till now. Thank you.

[@ThisSoundsGood100]

I feel the same. Such exotic sounds for that time.

[@buckycore]

This feels and sounds as relevant and "new" as it did back then. Never feel old. Feel proud to have been part of history

[@rollandfitch5473]

A catchy tune with scantily clad dancers who cannot love this. I loved the original Popcorn in the 70s.

[@svenlima]

+rolll... The original Popcorn was in the 60s: 1969 :-)

[@IANCHARLES1965]

​@@svenlimaGershon Kingsley!

[@wharfmouse]

Gershon Kingsley ... the composer of this original song - has passed away at the age of 97 .....

[@AleksandrPodyachev]

RIP

[@steelpanther9568]

🎶🎵🕊R.I.P Gershon Kingsley🕊🎵🎶 And thank you for this awesome classic, your a true ‘Legend’, ❤️,✌🏼,✊🏼

[@Digibeatle09]

All would needs to complete this great combo - of Woody's fabulous cover and the dancing of these wonderful Pan's People - is a bowl of er.... Rice Crispies 🤑 !!!

[@Imm77star]

Has anyone seen The Muppets re-do of “Popcorn” with the Swedish Chef where he’s making popcorn shrimp? It’s priceless!

[@Absaalookemensch]

It was such a fun song. Just like watching popcorn pop then eating it. It was popular when I was in High School.

[@BobsBand]

As someone pointed out earlier, the original Popcorn was by Gershon Kingsley and the Hot Butter just covered it. Anyway this is pretty cool.

[@fastasfox]

I think the hot butter version is better in some way's.....this is a little trippy for my taste.

[@Biyoung]

@@fastasfox The drums in hotbutter version does it

[@ChiefExecutiveOrbiter]

Aphex Twin did a cover too

[@RogbodgeVideo]

G​@@ChiefExecutiveOrbiterSo did Crazy Frog and Swedish Chef from The Muppets, among others!

[@jezuceto]

Try to search M&H Band versión and extended version

[@jessquinn6106]

This is the song that plays every time I set my time machine back to the 70's.

[@GodzillaGoesGaga]

I was watching the dancing and thought, “That looks like Pan’s People from Top Of The Pops”. Then I read tour description! Damn they looked good back then. Probably still do today but back then was a good time to grow up in!!

[@Pan6888]

!!!! In great tunes no drums are needed ! great track of the glory days of electronic music, dont know why we dont compose like this anymore but i am glad that these tracks where composed decades ago and still sound so alive !

[@vibman68]

Well, i miss a snaredrum atleast

[@rubhern8187]

Thanks woody. Brings back childhood school and family memories.🎉🎉🎉❤

[@mizquitl]

I remember hearing Popcorn and things from Kraftwerk on radio and tv when I was in pre-school. It was fantastic.

[@thombroom5515]

I must get a Moog Sub Phatty for this video... back in the 70's....Thanks Woody

[@mtjoy747]

0:13 when the synth has the words SUB and PHATTY too close to each other LOL

[@tonydesmet7389]

There's only one thing better than great music and that is beautiful women.

[@NogueiraMG]

100% agree

[@looneyburgmusic]

My first "real" synth, a lowly Roland D-5, had a patch named "Popcorn"... Never could figure out why it was named that - until now...

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Yeah I wondered that too, I had a D-10 back in the 90's that I bought for $5 at a flea market :D I loved that thing

[@julien23lastchristmas2]

My best Birthday gift 1969 🙏❤💐🇺🇸

[@ronjohns8002]

Hot Butter Popcorn version is the best version of GKs version from Music to Moog By album

[@ReinholdMessner-k1j]

Such wonderful talent, each lady has definitely a double talent

[@rockfishmiller]

Well, hats off to the choreographer anyways, did enjoy this tune when i was a kid.

[@SpaceAudio]

Wow lots of trivia here. 👌

[@HoriaBalan]

One of the Best,all my regards for all of you

[@kevinroche3334]

Still got this in my vinyl collection!

[@steven_vogt]

You have managed to make me feel both young and old at the same time! 😂😂 I was 10 years old when this came out and listened to it on my transistor radio ..... (sighs nostalgically.....)

[@AllanGildea]

What a great track - you covered it really well. And "Pan's People"! Gorgeous low res beauties!

[@campbj70]

Fantastic stereo interpretation with classic 70s dancers - what a fins.

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very good..........................................

[@ThisSoundsGood100]

MOOG changed music history.

[@widzspectator979]

I know I'm repeating myself, but every time I watch it, I regret that there are no such beautiful ladies now

[@Aliceundeaddoll]

People in general were prettier back then... Plastic surgery was there but less common, Men had a certain androgynous charm (Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie) and women used make up to enhance their strong points instead of filling their lips with junk

[@Violentic81]

Moog sound makes it so wholesome

[@damsam4369]

Man I had forgotten this work of genius

[@gingataff]

"Dad, can I watch Top of the Pops, pleeeease?" "Oh, go on then"

[@bicyclist2]

Very retro cool! I Love it. Thank you.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

one of the most popular tunes in history! 🤩

[@PeacelordApropos]

This sounds like some of the shorts used on YTV back in the 90s as end runners. Love it!

[@clivehubbard6239]

Look up Walter Carlos. He was an early player of this synthesiser. Switched on Bach being an album of his. Brilliant!

[@travelledfar]

I clicked on this in my feed. Damn.. you just know I'm not going to get this out of my head for weeks now! 😉😀

[@adriangoodbrand8400]

Loved it back in the 60s , still love it .

[@erikburmester3299]

Perfect! ...and even much more incredible: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 4

[@andrewbridges8270]

Love this track that and one of the best keyboards that ever came out which led to our modern electronic music awesome cheers;)

[@markscott554]

I remember my parents had some kind of compilation album back in the day, but Popcorn is the only tune that I played from it and actually remember.

[@andrewdewar8159]

My brother had the first 2 Mooog albums, one had a blue cover and the other had like a cartoor pineapple or cocnut crossed with a synthesiser. Can't rememebr which. One was called Moog Party Time. Ace !

[@klaushermann2180]

I heard that last year, when I stood at the Furcht-Bar😢

[@henrycarlson7514]

A simple Great Song . Thank You

[@arifinbali3757]

Best version, every tone is crystal clear.

[@PatagonianWarrior]

nope, its not. Actually it's very boring and plain, sounds like played by a 5 year old on his first Keyboard. Original by Gershon is way more sophisticated and trippier... the offset he did is soooo good and makes it way more catchy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/anaac3-JiLGaqtk

[@SteelRain_87]

I can't stop watching this video

[@reybo8639]

I want to go back in my past. I forgot how that was so cool

[@dakota-sessions]

Yeah!

[@ModestNeophyte]

hah! this reminds me.. i was visiting a friend and he had a record player. i told him i've never listened to one before, so he got out this album called "everything you ever wanted to hear on the moog" and he played THIS SONG!

[@BigHairyKev]

*Sweet synthy synthyness!* ⭐😃👍

[@EricMcLuen]

Listened to the Music to Moog By a lot. Parents also had Everything you Wanted to Hear on a Moog but Were Afraid to Ask.

[@ahsaf986]

This music is timeless, but the dancing is ridiculous.

[@MiroslavaKustova]

Can't stop watching it...

[@Jim-vp1nq]

I rember dancing to this beat. Loved it.

[@kristoferstoll587]

AWESOME!!! Love it! I came here from watching BastichB 64K's retrospective on the eras of Arcade games from the very beginnings through to the 90's and there was an arcade game that used this music (popcorn) as it's main background track. Amazing how that led me here and filled my ears wonder! GREAT!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

appreciate that, thanks!

[@jupitermenace9920]

Excellent job. Took me back to being a little kid again.

[@freedomforever6718]

Super flashback!

[@craigcorson3036]

Does anyone else think that the set dressing is eerily reminiscent of the photos of the Twin Towers, post collapse??

[@Marc83Aus]

Very 70's industrial and modernest design. At the time of this performance construction of the World trade tower had already been going on for many years, so its possible they were inspired by the building site.

[@craigcorson3036]

@@Marc83Aus *modernist

[@ashkirby8896]

The original 1969 version of the song by Gershon Kingsley was made using the Moog synthesizer as well, ya know!😄😏😎

[@DemoniacYouth]

Cutoff, LFO, potters that did the synthesized music since the seventies! I love it... Moog, Korg... 👽

[@Brigand231]

A classic in so many ways.

[@stevenshewfelt888]

Love the dancers outfits and boots

[@grifftrain]

These girls have sweet dance moves

[@volvonaut6634]

grandma's now :-)

[@grifftrain]

Matthias Schulte yep! Time gone by

[@VictorAtomic]

well, that was FUN! and that outro for your channel! 🙌🙌🔥🔥

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

OK. That’s me dreaming about Pan People again tonight 🙂

[@christianleicht7973]

We remember Gershon Kingsley !!!

[@johnwatrous3058]

Makes me feel old!

[@rfgrooteman]

I have always liked that song. Thanks Woody. Nice vintage dancing in the clip. :)

[@alyosha917]

Glad I'm not the only one on this damned website obsessed with 60s/70s synthesis over 80s! I hate that the specter of 80s pop looms over the synthesis world so heavily,, it's been boring ever since it's revival in the 2000s and yet people don't seem to want to do anything else.

[@michaelkappes8226]

awesome version

[@waynehamilton8041]

Facts.. Originally written by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 for the Moog synthesizer .. Covered by Hot Butter in 1972 ..

[@RobertBohnen]

I only remember the Hot Butter version.

[@АлександрСагайдак-ъ5ф]

Божественная мелодия... Божественные тетки.

[@antonantonov5346]

В оригинале девушки Pan's People танцуют под композицию " You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", а не "Popcorn" (в KZbin этот ролик есть)

[@muffs55mercury61]

A high school favorite for 52 years now (the Hot Butter version entered the top 40 on 8/19/1972) The girls did an excellent job and so did the one on the Moog. Fantastic melody.

[@Dulcimerist]

The original 1969 version didn't chart, unfortunately. It was a cover of the song that entered the Top 40 in 1972.

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@Dulcimerist The other 45 I have is by Anarchic. I don't know if it's the one your talking about but it's pretty good. It has an instrumental on one side and a vocal on the flip. It's longer than the original as the verse is repeated

[@Dulcimerist]

@@muffs55mercury61 The original didn't have lyrics. The original "Popcorn" was on its composer Gershon Kingsley's 1969 album "Music to Moog By." Considered a landmark album for the Moog and synth music in general.

[@stevenmacdonald9619]

Love the original. It was actually composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969, for the album 'Music to Moog by'. Hot Butter made it a hit in 1972. Since then it has been covered by everyone including The Crazy Frog. My personal favourite is Jean Michel Jarre's version.

[@max5250]

Perfect, just perfect...

[@MickeyKnox]

Popcorn is not originally by Hot Butter, but 3 years earlier by Gershon Kingsley - the Hot Butter version is just more common. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_(instrumental)

[@anniemichelecrepel3092]

Cette chorégraphie est plus élaborée qu à mon époque quand c est sorti en.... 1972 !!!!!!! Comme il est loin ce temps !!!!