Editing Hot Butter (section)

{{short description|American instrumental pop band}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Hot Butter
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| origin              = [[New York City]], U.S.
| genre               = [[Electronic music|Electronic]], [[music|Pop]], [[synth-pop]]
| years_active        = 1971–1978
| label               = [[Musicor Records|Musicor]]<br />Dynamo
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| current_members     = 
| past_members        = Stan Free<br />John Abbott<br />Bill Jerome<br />Steve Jerome<br />Danny Jordan<br />Dave Mullaney
}}

'''Hot Butter''' were an American [[instrumental]] band fronted by the [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]] player and studio musician '''Stan Free'''. The other band members were John Abbott (arranger, guitar), brothers Bill (producer, engineer, percussion) and Steve Jerome (producer, electric piano), Danny Jordan (producer) and Dave Mullaney (arranger, [[ondioline]]); also joined in studio by Tony Spinosa (percussion).<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/1820078-Hot-Butter-Popcorn</ref> They were best known for their 1972 [[cover version|version]] of the [[Moog synthesizer]] instrumental song "[[Popcorn (instrumental)|Popcorn]]", originally recorded by its composer, [[Gershon Kingsley]], in 1969.<ref name="PinchTrocco">{{cite book |last1=Pinch |first1=Trevor |last2=Trocco |first2=Frank |title=Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer |date=2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Boston, Massachusetts, USA |isbn=0-674-00889-8 |page=200}}</ref><ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book
| first = Joseph
| last = Murrells
| year = 1978
| title = The Book of Golden Discs
| edition = 2nd
| publisher = Barrie and Jenkins Ltd
| location = London
| page = [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/314 314]
| ISBN = 0-214-20512-6
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/314
}}</ref> The track became an international [[hit record|hit]], selling a million copies in France, 250,000 in the United Kingdom, and over two million worldwide.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs"/>