Rest in peace, Gershon Kingsley
The 'Popcorn' composer was also a Tony-nominated Emmy, Obie and Clio winner., who wrote the top 10 hit “Popcorn” and played a pivotal role in popularizing the synthesizer sound, died Dec. 10 in New York. He was 97.that reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, and No. 1 in at least six other countries. In 2005,released its version, with the song again going to No. 1 in a number of countries. In 2018, Kingsley released a yellow vinyl 12” of his trademark song for Record Store Day.
When Kingsley returned to New York in 1955, he became the musical director for a Broadway production ofstarring Lawrence Olivier. In 1958, he was nominated for a Tony Award for best musical direction in the Broadway hit. He conducted and arranged for several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including. Kingsley earned two Obie Awards for his Off-Broadway theatrical work.
In 1966, while working as a staff arranger for Vanguard Records, Kingsley collaborated with French composer Jean-Jacques Perrey on a highly-experimental pop albumthat combined dozens of intricately designed tape loops with live studio musicians to produce an altogether new sound that pushed the envelope of modern music, and Kingsley soon became one of the foremost artists of the Moog sound.
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