Popcorn Story 1 / Various Popcorn Story 1 / Various CD

The Popcorn genre is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium (the Land of Beers) in the late 1960s and it got it's name from a discotheque called the Popcorn. This style includes a pretty eclectic and wide range of American R&B and pop songs mostly recorded in the 1950s and mid-1960s in a slow or medium tempo and often in a minor key. Popcorn can be recognized by it's tempo just as much as it's sound. In an article for The Guardian titled "Belgium's 'Popcorn: the last underground music scene in Europe" musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote "the purity of Belgian Popcorn is it's 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. It won't stay that way forever.

1. Little Willie John - Fever 2. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons 3. J.J. Jones and Combo - Harlem Nocturne 4. Joanie Sommers - Why Don't You Do Right 5. Bobby Guy - Good Enough 6. Melvin Davis - Wedding Bells 7. Kenny and Moe (The Blue Boys) - I Want to Love You 8. Les de Merle and His Band - Bulldozer 9. Lula Reed - Lovin' 10. "Big" Buddy Lucas - I Can't Go 11. Titus Turner - Coralee 12. Priscilla Bowman - Sugar Daddy 13. Edgar Allen and the Po' Boys - Panic Button 14. Perry Como - Glendora 15. Bobby Brookes - Little Girl (Is It True) 16. Danny Darrow - Impulse 17. Lefty (Guitar) Bates - Ninety Days 18. Little Jimmy Ray - You Need to Fall in Love 19. Sherri Taylor - He's the One That Rings My Bell 20. Bobby King - Thanks Mr Postman 21. Barry White and the Atlantic's - Tracy (All I Have Is You) 22. The Clovers Featuring Buddy Bailey - One More Time (Come on) 23. Chance Halladay - 13 Women 24. Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied) 25. The Ray-O-Vacs - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) 26. Etta James - Seven Day Fool 27. Roy Hamilton - Earthquake 28. Timi Yuro - I Ain't Gonna Cry No More