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The article and several earlier comments claim that this song was famously covered by Jean Michelle Jarre. Most of the versions on YouTube that you get when you

The article and several earlier comments claim that this song was famously covered by Jean Michelle Jarre. Most of the versions on YouTube that you get when you search for "Jean Michelle Jarre popcorn" are actually the M&H band version. Official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-q5UrokgW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-q5UrokgW4 Some are the Hot Butter version, which is probably the most popular one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc Jean Michelle Jarre is not in this collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUM8gFyLqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUM8gFyLqo I'm not sure Jean Michelle Jarre ever covered it at all - if he did, it wasn't a big hit of his, or a well known version of Popcorn. P.s. Even if he has made a version, I doubt it can be anywhere near as good as The Swedish Chef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE

pavlov 4y ago
I also suspect that Jean-Michel Jarre never made a cover of Popcorn. Despite Jarre's pop status, he's an original composer, not a cover artist. His father Maurice Jarre was a composer who wrote the score to the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", so he grew up in a privileged cultural milieu. J-M Jarre has discussed the impact that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring had on his art. Making a Popcorn cover just seems completely out of character. I suspect the misattribution happened early in the MP3 era, around 1996-99, because I vaguely recall seeing Popcorn drifting on Napster as a J-M Jarre title... Jarre was quite popular among the early adopters who traded MP3s back then, so I'm guessing anything "early synth pop" got assigned to him. (I still regularly listen to Jarre's "Zoolook" album from 1984. Brilliant use of the legendary Fairlight sampler-synthesizer.)
amiga386 4y ago
Jean-Michel Jarre did cover it, under the fake band name "Pop Corn Orchestra" and fake name "Jammie Jefferson", in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkKlZi3Yd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkKlZi3Yd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7aNuqp_YU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7aNuqp_YU https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/45181/versions https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/45181/versions https://www.discogs.com/master/267596-Pop-Corn-Orchestra-Pop-Corn https://www.discogs.com/master/267596-Pop-Corn-Orchestra-Pop... It was eclipsed by the version released by Hot Butter that same year. However, yes, a lot of people mistakenly think the M&H Band (in reality: French sound engineer Mark Haliday) cover released in 1987 was made by Jarre

pavlov 4y ago

I also suspect that Jean-Michel Jarre never made a cover of Popcorn. Despite Jarre's pop status, he's an original composer, not a cover artist. His father Maurice Jarre was a composer who wrote the score to the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", so he grew up in a privileged cultural milieu. J-M Jarre has discussed the impact that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring had on his art. Making a Popcorn cover just seems completely out of character. I suspect the misattribution happened early in the MP3 era, around 1996-99, because I vaguely recall seeing Popcorn drifting on Napster as a J-M Jarre title... Jarre was quite popular among the early adopters who traded MP3s back then, so I'm guessing anything "early synth pop" got assigned to him. (I still regularly listen to Jarre's "Zoolook" album from 1984. Brilliant use of the legendary Fairlight sampler-synthesizer.)

amiga386 4y ago

Jean-Michel Jarre did cover it, under the fake band name "Pop Corn Orchestra" and fake name "Jammie Jefferson", in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkKlZi3Yd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkKlZi3Yd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7aNuqp_YU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7aNuqp_YU https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/45181/versions https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/45181/versions https://www.discogs.com/master/267596-Pop-Corn-Orchestra-Pop-Corn https://www.discogs.com/master/267596-Pop-Corn-Orchestra-Pop... It was eclipsed by the version released by Hot Butter that same year. However, yes, a lot of people mistakenly think the M&H Band (in reality: French sound engineer Mark Haliday) cover released in 1987 was made by Jarre