Popcorn Story 1 / Various- Popcorn Story 1 / Various (CD)
The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium (the Land of Beers) in the late 1960s and it got it's name from a discotheque called the Popcorn. This style includes a pretty eclectic and wide range of American R&B and pop songs mostly recorded in the 1950s and mid-1960s in a slow or medium tempo and often in a minor key. Popcorn can be recognized by it's tempo just as much as it's sound. In an article for The Guardian titled "Belgium's 'Popcorn: the last underground music scene in Europe" musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote "the purity of Belgian Popcorn is it's very impurity. R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-Esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene. It won't stay that way forever.
Tracklist:
- Little Willie John - Fever
- Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
- J.J. Jones and Combo - Harlem Nocturne
- Joanie Sommers - Why Don't You Do Right
- Bobby Guy - Good Enough
- Melvin Davis - Wedding Bells
- Kenny and Moe (The Blue Boys) - I Want to Love You
- Les de Merle and His Band - Bulldozer
- Lula Reed - Lovin'
- "Big" Buddy Lucas - I Can't Go
- Titus Turner - Coralee
- Priscilla Bowman - Sugar Daddy
- Edgar Allen and the Po' Boys - Panic Button
- Perry Como - Glendora
- Bobby Brookes - Little Girl (Is It True)
- Danny Darrow - Impulse
- Lefty (Guitar) Bates - Ninety Days
- Little Jimmy Ray - You Need to Fall in Love
- Sherri Taylor - He's the One That Rings My Bell
- Bobby King - Thanks Mr Postman
- Barry White and the Atlantic's - Tracy (All I Have Is You)
- The Clovers Featuring Buddy Bailey - One More Time (Come on)
- Chance Halladay - 13 Women
- Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
- The Ray-O-Vacs - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
- Etta James - Seven Day Fool
- Roy Hamilton - Earthquake
- Timi Yuro - I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium (the Land of Beers) in the late 1960s and it got it's name from a discotheque called the Popcorn. This style includes a pretty eclectic and wide range of American R&B and pop songs mostly recorded in the 1950s and mid-1960s in a slow or medium tempo and often in a minor key. Popcorn can be recognized by it's tempo just as much as it's sound. In an article for The Guardian titled "Belgium's 'Popcorn: the last underground music scene in Europe" musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote "the purity of Belgian Popcorn is it's very impurity. R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-Esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene. It won't stay that way forever.
Tracklist:
- Little Willie John - Fever
- Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
- J.J. Jones and Combo - Harlem Nocturne
- Joanie Sommers - Why Don't You Do Right
- Bobby Guy - Good Enough
- Melvin Davis - Wedding Bells
- Kenny and Moe (The Blue Boys) - I Want to Love You
- Les de Merle and His Band - Bulldozer
- Lula Reed - Lovin'
- "Big" Buddy Lucas - I Can't Go
- Titus Turner - Coralee
- Priscilla Bowman - Sugar Daddy
- Edgar Allen and the Po' Boys - Panic Button
- Perry Como - Glendora
- Bobby Brookes - Little Girl (Is It True)
- Danny Darrow - Impulse
- Lefty (Guitar) Bates - Ninety Days
- Little Jimmy Ray - You Need to Fall in Love
- Sherri Taylor - He's the One That Rings My Bell
- Bobby King - Thanks Mr Postman
- Barry White and the Atlantic's - Tracy (All I Have Is You)
- The Clovers Featuring Buddy Bailey - One More Time (Come on)
- Chance Halladay - 13 Women
- Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
- The Ray-O-Vacs - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
- Etta James - Seven Day Fool
- Roy Hamilton - Earthquake
- Timi Yuro - I Ain't Gonna Cry No More