"Lowdown Popcorn" is a

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

instrumental An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instru ...

recorded by

James Brown James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honor ...

. It was the third hit

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Brown recorded in 1969 that was inspired by the popular dance the Popcorn, preceded by the instrumental " The Popcorn" and the song " Mother Popcorn". It charted #16 R&B and #41 Pop. The original studio recording of "Lowdown Popcorn" was included on Brown's 1970 album ''

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'' with added

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and overdubbed crowd noise to simulate a live performance.Weinger, Harry. ''Sex Machine''

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New York: PolyGram Records.

References

External links

"Popcorn Unlimited"
an article by

Douglas Wolk Douglas Wolk (born 1970) is a Portland, Oregon-based author and critic. He has written about comics and popular music for publications including ''The New York Times'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Republi ...

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