Gershon Kingsley, a composer who brought electronic sounds into popular music and wrote the enduring instrumental hit “Pop Corn,” died Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. His daughter Alisse ...

In the 1960s, Kingsley was an early convert to the Moog synthesizer. He used it to create music for commercials and to orchestrate perky melodies — most notably “Pop Corn,” an instrumental originally ...