Today is “National Popcorn Day!”
It's hard to imagine not spending this day sitting around in a Vintage Bean Bag Chair ~~~
listing to a ten-stack of Favorite Forgotten Hits on a Vintage Thick Spindle RCA Victrola 45 RPM Record Player ~~~
with a Big Foil Bowl of Vintage Jiffy Pop Hot Buttered Popcorn!
And what better day than to bring back that Great, Old, Rarely-heard, 1972 Forgotten Hit, one of the first hit songs that was played entirely by a Moog synthesizer as composed by Gershon Kingsley.
A worldwide hit, it popped and peaked into the Top Ten at Number 9 in the US on Billboard’s Hot 100, even Number 4 on the Easy Listening chart!
Yes, it was in 1972 that former members of The First Moog Quartet started a new group called Hot Butter and recorded their surprisingly successful Instrumental Hit “Popcorn!”
Crazily enough, “Popcorn” has been covered by over 815 artists, including Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and The Muppets.
So, with all that being said, here we go! Pass the Salt please!
CB ( which stands for Cernal Boy!” )
[ see, you have to pronounce the “C” hard like in “Cat!” ]
Sidebar: There’s an unsubstantiated rumor floating around the Forgotten Hits World Headquarters that this is Kent Kotal’s second favorite album cover.
Any rendering of an attractive female partially covered in delicious foodstuffs much as his all-time favorite album cover, "Whipped Cream" from Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, occupies a cherished spot in his personal vinyl collection.
I have to admit, there IS something tasty about that Popcorn album cover ...
but I'm confused ...
If you covered that popcorn with hot, sticky honey, would that make it Karmel Korn??? (see how I did that "kk" thing???)
Or would that simply be Kernelerectus???
The Ohio Players came up with some pretty interesting album covers over the years ...
For example, thanks to Sesame Street, we all have our favorite letters ...
Some of mine have always been L, M and N ...
But I think you'll agree that, thanks to The Ohio Players, you could make a pretty strong case for O and P, too!!!
