Popcorn Story 1 (Various Artists)

Artista: Popcorn Story 1 / Various

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: KOKM

Catalogo: 130

Faixas: 1.1 Little Willie John – Fever
1.2 Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
1.3 J.J. Jones and Combo – Harlem Nocturne
1.4 Joanie Sommers – Why Don’t You Do Right
1.5 Bobby Guy – Good Enough
1.6 Melvin Davis – Wedding Bells
1.7 Kenny and Moe (The Blue Boys) – I Want to Love You
1.8 Les de Merle and His Band – Bulldozer
1.9 Lula Reed – Lovin’
1.10 “Big” Buddy Lucas – I Can’t Go
1.11 Titus Turner – Coralee
1.12 Priscilla Bowman – Sugar Daddy
1.13 Edgar Allen and the Po’ Boys – Panic Button
1.14 Perry Como – Glendora
1.15 Bobby Brookes – Little Girl (Is It True)
1.16 Danny Darrow – Impulse
1.17 Lefty (Guitar) Bates – Ninety Days
1.18 Little Jimmy Ray – You Need to Fall in Love
1.19 Sherri Taylor – He’s the One That Rings My Bell
1.20 Bobby King – Thanks Mr Postman
1.21 Barry White and the Atlantic’s – Tracy (All I Have Is You)
1.22 The Clovers Featuring Buddy Bailey – One More Time (Come on)
1.23 Chance Halladay – 13 Women
1.24 Ben E. King – Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
1.25 The Ray-O-Vacs – Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
1.26 Etta James – Seven Day Fool
1.27 Roy Hamilton – Earthquake
1.28 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.