# Various music questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 11, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732 "2004-03-11T17:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Homer\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Homer\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732/1 "2004-03-11T17:43:08Z")

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The song ‘popcorn’ (electriconal style piece of music) is by who? i dont know and would like to find out  
Secondly does anyone know any good links to sights where you can download the famous pieces of classical music etc. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers!

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**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732/2 "2004-03-11T17:53:56Z")

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_Popcorn_ (and its B-side _At The Movies_) was by **Hot Butter**.

It still amazes me how many people actually know this song. My brother had the 45 as I was growing up but that was the only place I’d ever heard it…until about 4 years ago when I heard it playing overhead at Red Lobster.

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732/3 "2004-03-11T18:13:20Z")

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**Hot Butter** (an alias for Moog pioneer Stan Free) has a pretty interesting [back story](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040403021119440747&sql=Bwj9as35ba3bg). “Popcorn” was written by another Moog pioneer, Gershon Kingsley, a few years earlier.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/various-music-questions/233732/4 "2004-03-11T18:49:38Z")

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> [@Homer J](#):
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> Secondly does anyone know any good links to sights where you can download the famous pieces of classical music etc. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers!

The [Classical Music Archives](http://www.classicalarchives.com/index.html) seem to fit the bill.