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From:
John Bush
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Date:
Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:07:18 -0500
Subject:
Re: (idm) oxygene / popcorn
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quoted 3 lines While reading all this Oxygene correspondence, I began humming> While reading all this Oxygene correspondence, I began humming > the damn thing, and noticed that if you speed it up, it suddenly > turns into Popcorn :-)
There have been rumors that Jean-Michel Jarre was actually the producer behind Popcorn (or Funky Popcorn?) by Hot Butter, though the song was actually written by Messrs. Perrey & Kingsley in the late '60s (the Hot Butter hit was circa '73)... I could believe it too. Jarre's first LP, Deserted Palace (withdrawn 'cuz he wanted to be more of a "serious" artist), has a lot of novelty stuff; witness tracks like "Poltergeist Party," "Rain Forest Rap Session," "Pogo Rock," "Exasperated Frog" and "Bee Factory." .John.