30 Rare Popcorn Oldies Vol 1
Genny Nanda
Popcorn (sometimes Belgian popcorn or oldies popcorn) is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s. The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and British recordings of pop-soul music made between the late 1950s and mid 1960s, often relatively obscure, and characterized by a slow or medium, rather than fast, tempo. The style has been described by musician and writer Bob Stanley as "possibly the last truly underground music scene in Europe."
According to Stanley, "the purity of Belgian Popcorn is its 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." By the 1990s, the Popcorn dance scene retained a core of aficionados even outside Belgium, having a level of recognition in venues and specialist clubs in Britain, Germany, and the US, with at least 30 compilations of American R&B and pop music in the Belgian Popcorn style being re-issued in Europe.[1][2]
Examples of highly prized popcorn records include "Sweetheart" by Peggy Lee, "Image" by Hank Levine,[1] "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep" by Simone Dina, "The Tingle" by Jackie Weaver, "Who's Got the Action" by Phil Colbert,[3] "Heartless Lover" by Dick Baker, "La Tanya" by Jay Abbott, "Carmelita" by Jeff Lane,[2] "I'm Crying in the Rain" by Major Lance, "You Beat Me to the Punch" by Mary Wells,[4] "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Tormé, and "Twine Time" by Alvin Cash.[5]
Following the Popcorn club's popularity, other clubs sprang up playing music in a similar style. These included the Festival in Antwerp, the Gatsby in Vliermaal, and the Versailles, beside the beach at Ostend. As well as Cousaert and Govaert, other leading DJs included Jeff Callebaut, Gerry Franken, and Georges Toniotti. Radio stations were set up to play the music, and rare music on obscure labels became especially prized. The scene in Belgium, in many ways, paralleled the Northern soul scene in Britain, but with a slower swing style of music favoured, rather than the fast dance styles characteristic of Northern soul. In some cases, DJs slowed down records, by pitch control and by playing 45 rpm discs at 33 rpm, to achieve the desired tempo and rhythm. The range of the music also broadened, to include some British and Italian pop music from the early 1960s, and eventually local bands were formed to emulate the style.[1][3][4]
Lorikeet Records A great collection of very rare 60's/70's Psychedelic, Soundtrack, Bollywood, Disco, Funk, Electronic, Jazz, and Folk mainly from Pakistan and India. Not a bad song on the whole channel, in my opinion.
Over 1,000 dancers from across Belgium and over the border from Holland, Germany, and France headed for this converted barn in rural Vrasene, with another few hundred in the parking lot outside, to get their Popcorn fix on a Sunday afternoon. Soon, Popcorn parties were springing up across Belgium. For Popcorn DJs, the search began for even rarer records in the warehouses and record shop basements across America. Cheap records became expensive ones as more diggers entered the scene.
20 rare ditties from '56 to '65. My favs are Jane Baker's Boom-De-De-Boom, Little Jerry Williams' Let's Do the Wobble, and Lillian Vines' I Dreamed About My Baby Last Night. imo, all these tracks (not the artists) are rare. I know I've heard Dangerous Lips before, but not by The Drivers (their version on this set). Enjoy!
Popcorn oldies are a mixture of early sixties soul, calypso, latin, chachacha, highschool, rock, evergreens, doo wop, ska and rhythm-and-blues. A precursor was Freddy Cousaert, an impressario and club owner who brought Marvin Gaye over to live in Belgium and the owner of discotheque "The Groove" in Ostend. The hits in "The Groove" included "Hole In The Wall" by Billy Larkin, "Soul Cargo" by Leon Haywood, "Doctor Ring Ding" by Roland Alphonso, "Wade in the Water" by Ramsey Lewis and "Twine Time" by Alvin Cash.
According to Bob Stanley, "the purity of Belgian Popcorn is its 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". Examples of highly prized popcorn records include "Sweetheart" by Peggy Lee, "Image" by Hank Levine, "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep" by Simone Dina, "The Tingle" by Jackie Weaver, "Who's Got the Action" by Phil Colbert, "Heartless Lover" by Dick Baker, "La Tanya" by Jay Abbott, "Carmelita" by Jeff Lane, "I'm Crying in the Rain" by Major Lance, "You Beat Me to the Punch" by Mary Wells, "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Tormé, and "Twine Time" by Alvin Cash.
I agree ice cream makes a great dinner, so does popcorn, in case were wondering!
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It has been raining here for the last 7 years too, so I feel your pain! I will send sunny vibes!
POPCORN
Popcorn Junkie, Downtown
Addicting to eat and incredibly versatile, the ultimate snack is a bag of popcorn. And the flavors at this shop run the gamut from sweet versions like pink cotton candy to savory like parmesan garlic. But our favorite is the combo sweet-and-salty PJ mix that pairs crispy caramel flakes with cheesy soft ones. With its location near the Orlando City Stadium, this shop is where to stop before you head to the stadium for an Orlando City soccer match.