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Biography
Refimprove|date=December 2008Infobox musical artist | name = Hot Butter| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin =| genre = Pop music|Pop , synthpop | years_active = 1971–1978| label = Musicor Records|Musicor Dynamo| associated_acts =| website =| current_members =| past_members = Stan Free Dave Mullaney John Abbott Bill Jerome Steve Jerome Danny Jordan| notable_instruments = Hot Butter was an instrumental cover band fronted by the Keyboard instrument|keyboard player Stan Free . The other band members were Dave Mullaney, John Abbott, Bill Jerome, Steve Jerome, and Danny Jordan. They are best known for their 1972 cover version|cover of the Moog synthesizer|Moog synthpop instrumental , " Popcorn (instrumental)|Popcorn ", originally sound recording and reproduction|recorded by its composer , Gershon Kingsley in 1969.cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 314 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 The track became an international hit record|hit and sold a million copies in France alone, one of that country's fastest million sellers. Sales in the United Kingdom topped 250,000, and with big sales in the United States , the disc amassed over two million globally.
Career
The liner notes to the Compact disc|CD reissue do not indicate who played what, aside from Free at the Moog synthesizer . Indeed, the notes say the band was Free and "a bunch of fellow players". Based upon the photograph and the sound of the album , the group had two additional keyboardists, two percussionist s, and a guitarist .
The group released two albums, Hot Butter (Musicor MS-3242; 1972) and More Hot Butter (Musicor MS-3254; 1973), primarily of Cover version|covers , on Gramophone record|LP issued by Hallmark Records . The two albums were compiled on CD as Popcorn on the Castle Music record label|label in 2000 (with an album cover from the 1974 Australian release of More Hot Butter titled Moog Hits , depicting the five other band members immersed in melted butter produced by Free's synthesizer), though several tracks, including Roger Whittaker 's "Mexican Whistler", were deleted.
The only tracks written by members of the band were "At the Movies" (the A-side and B-side|B-side of "Popcorn") and "Tristana", by all the band members except Free, and "Space Walk", by Dave Mullaney and his brother. "The Silent Screen (Hot Butter)" is credited to all the members except for Free, but it is actually an arrangement of the main theme of the first movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Symphony No. 40 . Among the other artists covered by the band were Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz , Jerry Lordan and The Shadows , Neil Diamond , Joe Meek and The Tornados , Neal Hefti , Serge Gainsbourg , Robert Maxwell (songwriter)|Robert Maxwell , Piero Umiliani , Jean-Joseph Mouret , Billy Joe and Emile Ford|The Checkmates , Joe Buffalo's Band, Teo Macero , Leroy Anderson , Danny Flores|Chuck Rio , and Norman Petty and The String-A-Longs . Mullaney and Abbott did most of the arranging. The Jeromes, Jordan, and Richard E. Talmadge record producer|produced the albums with MTL Productions for Musicor Records|Musicor .
After "Popcorn", their best known track is probably August Musarurwa 's " Skokiaan ", which was included on RE/Search 's compilation album , Incredibly Strange Music . Follow-up singles included The Shadows' " Apache (instrumental)|Apache ", Chuck Rio's ( Danny Flores ) " Tequila (song)|Tequila ", Billy Joe and the Checkmates' "Percolator", Joe Buffalo's Band's "Slag Solution", and Gene Farrow With G.F. Band's "You Should Be Dancing".
Discography
Albums
Hot Butter
Musicor MS-3242 (U.S.); Pye International NSPL.28169 (UK), 1972
Side One # " Popcorn (instrumental)|Popcorn " ( Gershon Kingsley ) (2:30) # " Godspell|Day by Day " ( Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz ) (3:44) # " Apache (instrumental)|Apache " ( Jerry Lordan ) (2:50 # "At the Movies" (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) (2:31) # "Tristana" (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) (3:29) # "Song Sung Blue" ( Neil Diamond ) (3:54)
Side Two # " Telstar (song)|Telstar " ( Joe Meek ) (2:34) # "Tomatoes" ( Neal Hefti ) 2:27 # " Amazing Grace " (Trad. Arr. Abbott, Mullaney) (2:37) # " Je t'aime... moi non plus|Love at First Sight " ( Serge Gainsbourg|S. Gainsbourg ) (2:38) # "Song of The Nairobi Trio|the Narobi Trio " ( Robert Maxwell (songwriter)|R. Maxwell ) (2:13) # " Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)|Hot Butter (The Silent Screen) " (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) (2:04)
More Hot Butter
Musicor MS-3254; 1973
Side One # "Percolator" # "Slag Solution" # "Sounds" # " Wheels (The String-A-Longs song)|Wheels " # "Skokiaan" # " Pipeline (song)|Pipeline "
Side Two # "Space Walk" # "The Masterpiece" # "Tequila" # "Syncopated Clock" # " Makizushi|Kappa Maki " # "Mah-Na, Mah-Na"
Popcorn with Hot Butter
Side One # "Popcorn" # "Day by Day" # "Apache" # "At the Movies" # "Tomatoes"
Side Two # "Pipeline" # "Hot Butter" # "Telstar" # "Tristana" # "Song of the Nairobi Trio" # "Amazing Grace"
Moog Hits
Musicor Records, L34954, 1974 (Australia)
Side One # "Slag Solution" # "Sounds Simple" # "Wheels" # "Skokiaan" # "Russian Whistler"
Side Two # "Space Walk" # "The Masterpiece" # "Tequila" # "Syncopated Clock" # "Mah-Na, Mah-Na" # "Mexican Whistler"
Popcorn (CD)
Castle Music ESMCD907 (UK), 2000
# " Popcorn (instrumental)|Popcorn " ( Gershon Kingsley ) Bourne Music # " Godspell|Day by Day " ( Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz ) Valando Music # " Apache (instrumental)|Apache " ( Jerry Lordan|Lordan ) Francis Day & Hunter # "At the Movies" (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) AMRA # "Tristana" (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) AMRA # "Song Sung Blue" ( Neil Diamond|Diamond ) Ardmore & Beechwood # " Telstar (song)|Telstar " ( Joe Meek|Meek ) Ivy Music Ltd # "Tomatoes" ( Neal Hefti|Hefti ) Famous Chappell # " Amazing Grace " (Trad. Arr. Abbott, Mullaney) ARTAL # " Je t'aime... moi non plus|Love at First Sight " ( Serge Gainsbourg|Gainsbourg ) Shapiro Bernstein/Britico # "Song of The Nairobi Trio|the Narobi Trio " ( Robert Maxwell (songwriter)|Maxwell ) # " Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)|Hot Butter (The Silent Screen) " (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) ARTAL # " Mah Nà Mah Nà|Mah-Na-Mah-Na " ( Piero Umiliani|Umiliani ) Carlin Music Corp # " Masterpiece Theatre|Masterpiece " ( Jean-Joseph Mouret|Mouret , Parnes) September Music Corp # "Percolator" (Bideu, Freeman) # " Skokiaan " ( August Musarurwa|Kusarurgwa ) Peter Maurice Music Co Ltd # "Slag Solution" (Morgan, Ranzzano) Copyright Control # "Sounds" ( Teo Macero|Macero ) Warner Chappell Music Ltd # "Space Walk" (Mullaney, Mullaney) Copyright Control # " The Syncopated Clock|Syncopated Clock " ( Leroy Anderson|Anderson , Mitchell Parish|Parish ) EMI Harmonies Ltd # " Tequila (song)|Tequila " ( Danny Flores|Rio ) MCA Music Ltd # " Wheels (The String-A-Longs song)|Wheels " ( Norman Petty|Petty ) Campbell Connelly & Co Ltd
Singles
Popcorn
Musicor MUS 1458 ( United States|U.S. ); Pye International 7N.25583 ( United Kingdom|UK ), July 1972
Side One # "Popcorn" (Gershon Kingsley) (2:30) Side Two # "At the Movies" (Abbott, Mullaney, Jerome, Jerome, Jordan) (2:31)
Apache
Musicor 7N.25598, 1972
Side One #"Apache" Side Two #"Hot Butter"
Tequila
Musicor 12 469 AT, 1972
Side One #"Tequila" (1:47) Side Two #"Tomatoes" (2:21)
Side One # "Slag Solution" Side Two # "Kappa Maki"
You Should Be Dancing
12" 45 Dynamo DS 12-DS-603-8, 1977
Side One # "You Should Be Dancing" (Warren/Farrow) (5:13) Hye Fye Music Ltd Side Two # "You Should Be Dancing" (track without lead vocal) ( Chris Warren|Warren /Farrow) (4:42) Hye Fye Music Ltd
Arranged by B.K. Bowie; Produced by Jerry "Swamp Dog" Williams, Jr.
