Jean-Michel Jarre: Pop Corn [1971]
I don't know too much about Jean-Michel or his music, but everything I have heard so far has been bitchin'. "Pop Corn" takes a spaghetti Western-esque theme (speaking of Morricone) and refracts it through a proto-electronica lens.
Note: the photo above shows the composer posing in front of some Polish DVDs.
5 comments:
Holy smoke is that a copy of "Smierc Dziercoroba" in the backgroud?!?!?! I remember my father forcing me to watch it -- "You'll like it Sherry, and if you don't, why, there'll be hell to pay!"
What? "Popcorn" in an earlier version than the 1972-smash-all-over-Europe-Superhit from Hot Butter? And I (native german, old enough to should have known) did not know that? WOW!
Usually I "know it all", haha, but you got me here...
Thanks, I found this blog through the hypmachine (or so) last week, and I am amazed about what I am finding here!
Albgardis -- thanks for the feedback. I have no knowledge of the Hot Butter hit of which you speak, nor can I say for certain that Jean-Michel's version is earlier. I found this on the Internet with the date "1971" attached...that date could be wrong. Anyway, thanks for listening. I will research this matter further when I have a chance...
Written by Gershon Kingsley in 1969, 3 years before the Hot Butter version, so it's possible that J-M Jarre did his version in 1971. Very surprised you know little about J-M Jarre - how quickly superstardom fades; check out the various incarnations of Oxygene and his wikipedia site
Follow up on my previous post above - http://www.popcorn-song.com/ lists the J-M Jarre version as 1973. It also has my favourite version by DJ Shaolin, from Poland.
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