Popcorn Love

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"Popcorn Love"
Single by New Edition
from the album Candy Girl
B-side "Jealous Girl"
ReleasedAugust 6, 1983 [1]
Recorded1982
Studio Unique Recording Studios [2]
Genre R&B
Length4:52 (album version)
3:45 (single version)
7:27 (instrumental version)
Label Streetwise
Songwriter(s) Maurice Starr, Michael Jonzun
Producer(s) Maurice Starr
New Edition singles chronology
"Is This the End"
(1983)
"Popcorn Love"
(1983)
"Cool It Now"
(1984)
Music video
"Popcorn Love" on YouTube

"Popcorn Love" is a single by New Edition, released on August 6, 1983. [1] It was released as the third and final single from their debut album, Candy Girl on the Streetwise label. The single read #25 on the R&B chart.

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Charts

Chart (1983–84)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 73
UK Singles Chart43
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles [4] 25

Another Bad Creation version

"Jealous Girl"
Single by Another Bad Creation
from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!
ReleasedJuly 23, 1991
RecordedSpring 1990
Genre R&B
Length5:38
Label Motown
Songwriter(s) Maurice Starr, Michael Jonzun
Another Bad Creation singles chronology
"Playground"
(1991)
"Jealous Girl"
(1991)
"Spydermann"
(1991)

Cover version

Another Bad Creation covered "Popcorn Love"'s flip side, "Jealous Girl" [5] (in a slightly extended version) [6] on July 23, 1991, which also reached #25 on the R&B chart. [7]

Mase recorded a parody of "Jealous Girl" for his Harlem World album, called "Jealous Guy", with him, 112 and Puff Daddy singing like New Edition but with altered lyrics. [8]

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