Frank Popp Ensemble
The Frank Popp Ensemble was a German band from Düsseldorf . With their song Hip Teens Don't Wear Blue Jeans they had a radio hit and a respectable hit in the charts in 2003. Like all songs by the band, the song was held in the soul style of the 1960s.
Frank Popp originally worked as a graphic designer before making music on the side. His first single High Voltage was discovered in 2001 for the soundtrack of the film Password: Swordfish . In the same year Hip Teens Don't Wear Blue Jeans followed , which first caused a sensation in Italy. But it was only through advertising that made it known to the general public in Germany: The song was the music for a Coca-Cola advertisement.
The band could be seen again in 2008 at the Lake Side Festival in Hergiswil on Lake Lucerne . They later separated.
Band members
The only permanent member was Frank Popp. He was supported both in the studio and on stage by
- Sam Leigh-Brown (from NOHA ) - vocals and songwriting
- Philip Noha (from NOHA ) - saxophone
- Lele Lugosi - guitar
- Jürgen Dahmen - piano
- Tino Stoschek - bass
- Marcus Scheltinga - trombone
- Stephan Mohr - Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes
- Tino Turner - electric bass
and others.
Second stage line-UP:
- Alex Jezdinsky - drums
- Pilo Lenger - Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes
- Roman Aul - guitar
- Georg Brörmann - rhythm guitar
- Hagen Siems - guitar
- Patricia Eichert - bass
Discography
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Albums
- Ride on! (2001)
- Ride on! (2003, re-release with new songs)
- Touch and Go (2005)
- The Frank Popp Ensemble (2006, UK only, with songs from the two previous albums)
- Receiver (2009, only as Frank Popp)
Singles
- High Voltage (2001)
- The Catwalk EP (2001)
- Hip Teens Don't Wear Blue Jeans (2001/2003)
- Love Is On Our Side (2003)
- You've Been Gone Too Long (2003)
- Breakaway (2005)
- The World Is Waiting (2005)
- Getting Down (2006)
Web links
- Sound carriers from the Frank Popp Ensemble in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank Popp Ensemble at Universal Music