Help ID a song

Cafe Society
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I heard this one on the radio yesterday and didn’t have 4G coverage to use Shazam. It was an instrumental, which makes it really tough. Usually a simple lyric search finds what I’m looking for. There were a lot of 80s-video-game-like beep boop beep bop sounds. The station was playing anything from the 60s through the 90s, so I don’t believe it’s current. It definitely sounds like something from the early to mid 80s. I’d say the main pattern was:

BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP BOOP… repeated…

In fact, this yahoo answers questioner has the closest thing I could find. The responses were not helpful.

Thanks, everyone, and good luck.

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Hot Butter - “Popcorn”?

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You might check the radio station’s website, many post their playlists.

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Nailed it. Very impressive. Thank you so much. It’s a pretty cool song. I’m surprised it dates back to 1972.

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That song does rule, the original version is from 1969.

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Wow, I had no idea the Hot Butter version was a cover. It was a big hit on A.M. radio back when I was about ten years old.

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There’s also a Muppet version featuring the Swedish Chef. With subtitles.

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I didn’t know it until youtube and wikipedia came along. The Hot Butter version was my P.E. teacher’s go-to song when we were doing something that could be accompanied by music when I was in the second and third grade, and it durably entered my internal jukebox. Searching for it so I could hear it as an adult let me know it’s history. I’m glad I found it, I actually like it better than the Hot Butter version, now.

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Here’s a cover version from a local band (Tuscaloosa, AL).

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I’m stunned and impressed Shoeless got this right away. I thought that no one would have a chance.

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To be honest, I’m surprised that in the 90 minutes before I posted, nobody else had jumped in and answered it first.

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Well, it’s a relatively obsure song, right? I’d never heard it before and I have a pretty strong knowledge of music and artists. I was shocked to see the very first response hit it. I guess it’s one of those where you hear “instrumental beep boop bop” and if you know the song, you kn ow it.