RE: Jean Jacques Perrey and "Popcorn"


Gordon Hurd (ghurd@yahoo-inc.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:40:22 -0700



Man, I used to love that song when I was a kid. I used to do a little
popcorn dance whenever someone put it on. I remember that the record cover
had a little fold out movie-style popcorn box... that's my nostalgia for
today.

g

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Hall [mailto:peterwhall@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 11:56 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Jean Jacques Perrey and "Popcorn"
>
>
>
> With all that discusion on JJ Perrey's EVA, I was happy to see this.
> Popcorn is a wonderfull song that was used as the music for one of my
> favorite games, Windmill software's 1983 classic "Digger".
>
> Gershon Kingsley wrote the song "Popcorn" and Stan Free played the Moog
> synthesizer. GK also collaberated with JJ Perrey, which was cool to
> discover, after you guys introduced me to him.
>
> Check the site about "Popcorn" at:
>
http://www.cam.org/~lafranc/popcorn.html

It is very informative!

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