# Help ID a song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144 "2013-10-24T18:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/1 "2013-10-24T18:29:51Z")
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. > **[Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](https://www.yahoo.com/)** > > Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo! Thanks, everyone, and good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/2 "2013-10-24T19:54:17Z")
Hot Butter - “Popcorn”? ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/3 "2013-10-24T19:58:56Z")
You might check the radio station’s website, many post their playlists. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/4 "2013-10-24T20:49:29Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Hot Butter - “Popcorn”? Nailed it. Very impressive. Thank you so much. It’s a pretty cool song. I’m surprised it dates back to 1972. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/5 "2013-10-24T23:22:27Z")
That song does rule, the [original version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc) is from 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/6 "2013-10-24T23:49:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/7 "2013-10-25T01:47:57Z")
There’s also a [Muppet version featuring the Swedish Chef. With subtitles.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/8 "2013-10-25T02:46:14Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/9 "2013-10-25T04:12:05Z")
Here’s a cover version from a local band (Tuscaloosa, AL). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cw30o8dNcRY/hqdefault.jpg "Necronomikids - Popcorn") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw30o8dNcRY) ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/10 "2013-10-25T05:36:43Z")
I’m stunned and impressed **Shoeless** got this right away. I thought that no one would have a chance. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/11 "2013-10-25T13:14:25Z")
To be honest, I’m surprised that in the 90 minutes before I posted, nobody else had jumped in and answered it first. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/672144/12 "2013-10-25T13:48:45Z")
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.