Popcorn Story Vol. 1

Description

The Mojo Man presents 20 Popcorn gems. The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium 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.
Tracklisting: 1.Little Willie John - Fever 2.Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons 3.J.J. Jones and Combo - Harlem Nocturne 4.Joanie Sommers - Why Don't You Do Right 5.Bobby Guy - Good Enough 6.Melvin Davis - Wedding Bells 7.Kenny and Moe (The Blue Boys) - I Want To Love You 8.Les De Merle and His Band ? Bulldozer 9.Lula Reed - Lovin' 10.'Big' Buddy Lucas - I Can't Go 11.Titus Turner ? Coralee 12.Priscilla Bowman - Sugar Daddy 13.Allen and The Po' Boys - Panic Button 14.Perry Como ? Glendora 15.Bobby Brookes - Little Girl (Is it True) 16.Danny Darrow ? Impulse 17.Lefty (Guitar) Bates - Ninety Days 18.Little Jimmy Ray - You Need To Fall In Love 19.Sherri Taylor - He's The One That Rings My Bell 20.Bobby King - Thanks Mr. Postman 21.Barry White and The Atlantics ? Tracy 22.The Clovers feat Buddy Bailey - One More Time 23.Chance Halladay - 13 Women 24.Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied) 25.The Ray-O-Vacs - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) 26.Etta James - Seven Day Fool 27.Ray Hamilton ? Earthquake 28.Timi Yuro - I Ain't Gonna Cry No More