Popcorn Story 2 (Various Artists)

Artista: Popcorn Story 2 / Various

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: KOKM

Catalogo: 131

Faixas: 1.1 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five – Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma Baby)
1.2 Jeanie Allen – I Really Love You
1.3 Jimmy Randolph – Summertime
1.4 Baby Washington – I’ve Got a Feeling
1.5 Jackie Jocko – Haunted Lover
1.6 Peggy King – Up, Up, Up (Flying High)
1.7 Roosevelt Jones – I Say! That’s All Right
1.8 Ollie Jones – Helpless
1.9 Ray Rivera – Troubles, Troubles
1.10 Ken MacKintosh and His Orchestra – the Swivel
1.11 Dean Barlow – Come Back
1.12 Freddie Houston – Chills ; Fever
1.13 Justin Jones – Love (Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere)
1.14 Charlie Rich – Let Me Go My Merry Way
1.15 The Laddins – I’ll Kiss Your Teardrops Away
1.16 The Naturals – Lenny Goofed
1.17 Frankie Laine – Seven Women
1.18 Trevor Peacock – Can I Walk You Home
1.19 Ruth McFadden – Stop Playing That Song
1.20 Cliffie Stone’s Orchestra with Bob Roubian – Here Comes the Train
1.21 Eddie Foster – I’m Grown
1.22 Jimmy Jones – Good Timin’
1.23 Bobby Sharp – Baby Girl of Mine
1.24 Barry Darvell – a King for Tonight
1.25 Cozy Cole – Big Noise from Winnetka Part 1
1.26 Betty Everett – Please Love Me
1.27 Bob Kayli – Tie Me Tight
1.28 Oscar Brown JNR. – Humdrum Blues

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.