Editing Hot Butter (section)

== History ==
The group released two albums, ''Hot Butter'' (Musicor MS-3242; 1972) and ''More Hot Butter'' (Musicor MS-3254; 1973), primarily of [[Cover version|covers]], on [[Gramophone record|LP]] issued by [[Hallmark Records]]. (The 1974 Australian ''Moog Hits'' consisted of nine tracks from ''More Hot Butter'', plus two new tracks, [[Roger Whittaker]]'s "Russian Whistler" and  "Mexican Whistler".) The two albums were compiled on CD as ''Popcorn'' on the [[Castle Music]] [[record label|label]] in 2000, omitting "Pipeline" and "Kappa Maki" from ''More Hot Butter'' and the two new tracks from ''Moog Hits''.

Tracks written by members of the band were "At the Movies" (the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of "Popcorn") and "Tristana", by all the band members except Free, and "Space Walk", by Jan Fairchild (Mullaney) and his father Dave Mullaney. "The Silent Screen (Hot Butter)" is credited to all the members except for Free, but it's actually an [[arrangement]] of the main theme of the first movement of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s [[Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)|Symphony No. 40]]. Among the other artists covered by the band were [[Stephen Schwartz (composer)|Stephen Schwartz]], [[Jerry Lordan]] and [[The Shadows]], [[Neil Diamond]], [[Joe Meek]] and [[The Tornados]], [[Neal Hefti]], [[Serge Gainsbourg]], [[Robert Maxwell (songwriter)|Robert Maxwell]], [[Piero Umiliani]], [[Jean-Joseph Mouret]], [[Billy Joe & the Checkmates]], Joe Buffalo's Band, [[Teo Macero]], [[Leroy Anderson]], [[Danny Flores|Chuck Rio]], and [[Norman Petty]] and [[The String-A-Longs]]. Mullaney and Abbott did most of the arranging. The Jeromes, Jordan, and Richard E. Talmadge [[record producer|produced]] the albums with MTL Productions for [[Musicor Records|Musicor]].

In addition to "Popcorn", another well-known track is [[August Msarurgwa]]'s "[[Skokiaan]]", which was included on [[RE/Search]]'s [[compilation album]] ''Incredibly Strange Music''. Follow-up singles included The Shadows' "[[Apache (instrumental)|Apache]]", Chuck Rio's ([[Danny Flores]]) "[[Tequila (The Champs song)|Tequila]]", Billy Joe and the Checkmates' "Percolator", Joe Buffalo's Band's "Slag Solution", and Gene Farrow with G.F. Band's "You Should Be Dancing".<!--not the Bee Gees song-->