Various Artists - Popcorn Blues Party 1 (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [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 of 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 InchBelgium's 'Popcorn the last underground music scene in EuropeInch musician and writer, Bob Stanley wrote Inchthe 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.

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.' Sadly the trademark InchPopcornInch dance style (that reminds me in more than one way of the American InchShagInch dance and culture still so popular in Carolina) stayed pretty much in Belgium. Everywhere else, the British InchvisionInch of the Popcorn genre and dance seem to be the most popular version around the World (just like all the other similar genres I mentioned) and not the original and Belgian Popcorn. In the current InchinternationalInch version of Popcorn (mainly focused on the gritty R&B side of the genre) the minor key seems to be almost mandatory and slower Northen Soul dance moves replaced the original hand dance that was actually a slower version of InchclassicInch 1950s rock and roll dancing. On the other hand, this created a new InchbuzzInch that seems to appeal to younger generations, while in Belgium the Popcorn crowd is mostly composed of people over 40. For strange that it seems only a few compilations of American and other R&B and pop music in the Belgian Popcorn style (also known as InchOldies PopcornInch) have been released to this day. Before this series (of 3 volumes) none of them focused on blues (even if lotta songs included here are already regarded by many as InchclassicsInch of the genre) so I decided to change that. That with a truckload of boss platters straight from his old record box. This second helping of boss InchPopcorn BluesInch tracks anthology features more great tunes. Dig it!

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 InchBelgium's 'Popcorn the last underground music scene in EuropeInch musician and writer Bob Stanley wrote Inchthe 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.