The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and British recordings of R&B and soul music made between the late 1950s and mid 1960s, often relatively obscure, and characterized by a slow or medium, rather than fast, tempo.
R&B, Broadway numbers, tangos, Phil Spector-esque girl groups and loungey instrumentals, they are all constituent parts of a rare, and still largely undiscovered scene."
[1][2] Examples of highly prized popcorn records include "Sweetheart" by Peggy Lee, "Image" by Hank Levine,[1] "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep" by Simone Dina, "The Tingle" by Jackie Weaver, "Who's Got the Action" by Phil Colbert,[3] "Heartless Lover" by Dick Baker, "La Tanya" by Jay Abbott, "Carmelita" by Jeff Lane,[2] "I'm Crying in the Rain" by Major Lance, "You Beat Me to the Punch" by Mary Wells,[4] "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Tormé, and "Twine Time" by Alvin Cash.
[1] In September 1969, a café, De Oude Hoeve, opened in a converted farm barn at Vrasene near Antwerp, and began holding dance competitions on Sunday afternoons.
[2][1] According to Stanley: "The beat was slow and slightly rickety, martial drums rolled under melancholy minor chords—The Marvelettes' 'Please Mr Postman' (1961) would have been typical.