{"id":2452248,"date":"2019-12-15T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=927382"},"modified":"2019-12-15T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:55:06","slug":"gershon-kingsley-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/gershon-kingsley-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Gershon Kingsley, Electronic Music Pioneer, Dead at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GettyImages-515394292.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gershon Kingsley, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/electronic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_electronic\" data-tag=\"electronic\">electronic<\/a> music pioneer who wrote some of the genre\u2019s most enduring songs, has died at the age of 97.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kingsley\u2019s family <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GershonKingsley\/status\/1205478830976196608\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that the composer died December 10th. No cause of death was revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are saddened to share that pioneering synthesist and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>legendary composer Gershon Kingsley has passed away,\u201d the Moog Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoogFoundation\/status\/1205583450134208512\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cOur love, respect and condolences go out to his family and loved ones.He will be deeply missed.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ax00vnsZPKE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Tony Award-nominated Broadway conductor before he started exploring the musical possibilities of the Moog synthesizer, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">German-born Kingsley first recorded music alongside fellow electronic music trailblazer Jean-Jacques Perry in the duo Perrey and Kingsley. Together the two recorded the influential 1966 album <em>The In Sound From Way Out<\/em> and co-write the 1967 composition \u201cBaroque Hoedown,\u201d the latter becoming a staple as the soundtrack for Disneyland\u2019s Main Street Electrical Parade. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jean-jacques-perrey-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-87-117980\/\">Perrey died in November 2016<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kingsley then embarked on a solo career with 1969\u2019s <em>Music to Moog By<\/em>, an album filled with covers of the Beatles, Beethoven and Simon &amp; Garfunkel performed on a Moog synthesizer as well as Kingsley works like the composer\u2019s most popular song, \u201cPopcorn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although Kingsley\u2019s version of the track was a minor success, Hot Butter \u2014 featuring Stan Free, a member of Kingsley\u2019s First Moog Quartet \u2014 re-recorded the track in 1972 and turned the instrumental into a surprise hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YfdLh0MHqKw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to his mark on electronic music, Kingsley also made a lasting impact on hip-hop, with artists like Jay-Z (\u201cInterlude\u201d), J Dilla (\u201cHambro\u201d), Black Milk and RJD2 (\u201cThe Horror\u201d) sampling his works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1_rwb9NgHR8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><br \/><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qgCLPiusTyQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><br \/><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNzvqLX1ejA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gershon-kingsley-moog-popcorn-dead-927382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gershon Kingsley, the electronic music pioneer who wrote some of the genre\u2019s most enduring songs, has died at the age of 97. Kingsley\u2019s family tweeted that the composer died December 10th. No cause of death was revealed. \u201cWe are saddened to share that pioneering synthesist and&nbsp; legendary composer Gershon Kingsley has passed away,\u201d the Moog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2452248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:55:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}