Mark Ellis (singer)

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Mark Ellis , bourgeois Volker Bernd Burkhardt (born October 14, 1943 in Gera ), is a former German pop singer from Frankfurt am Main .

Act

Mark Ellis had his first television appearances in 1960 as an 18-year-old clarinetist with the jazz group "New Orleans Jazz Babies". In November 1965 he founded the rhythm and blues group "The Raves" with classmates, in which he sang until April 1967 and played the saxophone and guitar. To finance his studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (law, economics and musicology), he worked as a studio musician in the Frankfurt area and also played in various bands. The Offenbach soul group "The Regines", which included the American soul and gospel singer Jean Lyons, made her first records and television appearances, including on the ZDF magazine Drehscheibe and in 1967 on the hr broadcast Beat, Beat, Beat . On Friday evenings he often played the tenor saxophone with the modern jazz group "Sounds", which Werner Rehm also belonged to, in the jazz bar "Jazzlife" in Kleine Rittergasse , Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen . There the LP Jazzlife at night was recorded and published by the Jazz Club Podium eV.

As a singer he worked with the music publisher Melodie der Welt and the composers and producers Jean Frankfurter and John Möring. The first two single releases were released by Telefunken Decca ( Teldec ). The title Dornen, Thisteln, Fels und Stein made it into the ZDF hit parade of Dieter Thomas Heck on February 20, 1971 . The following four single releases were released by EMI Columbia Electrola in Cologne . The most famous title in German was Alexander Graham Bell . With the singer Judy he released the single Do you love me / We believe in it ; Robert Puschmann (bourgeois Peter Wischmann) produced two singles for the participation of his band “ Meeting Point ” in the German preliminary rounds for the Grand Prix de la Chanson , which also included Mark Ellis and Herlinde Grobe (then under the alias “Angela Burg”). In 1979 Laslo Viragh , who later produced several albums for Böhse Onkelz, produced the LP The Best of Mark Ellis for IEM Musikverlag (Inter-Euro-Musik).

After completing his studies, Ellis first worked under his real name as a lawyer and legal advisor at CBS Schallplatten GmbH in Frankfurt. At the end of the 1970s he opened his own law firm and has been working as a notary and lawyer in Frankfurt since the mid-1980s. In addition to his IEM music publisher, he operated as a music publisher in Frankfurt with Christa Häfner at BB Musikverlag and with Lothar Grell at Tayfun Musikverlag.

Volker Burkhardt is a member of the German Bar Association and the Federal Chamber of Notaries . He is also a member of the FDP district association in Frankfurt am Main.

Discography

Singles

  • 1971: Anne-Marie (Telefunken)
  • 1971: Thorns, thistles, rock and stone (Telefunken)
  • 1972: Alexander Graham Bell (Columbia)
  • 1972: Sandy (Columbia)
  • 1972: Do You Love Me / We Believe In It (Columbia) with Judy
  • 1972: Love Without End (Columbia)
  • 1972: Hey Diana (Columbia)
  • 1973: I don't want to lose you / Je ne veux pas te perdre (Sonopresse / EMI Columbia)

Albums

  • 1979: The Best of Mark Ellis (Inter-Euro-Musik with permission from EMI Electrola)

Compilation Contributions

  • 1970: Much too blond to be faithful to the great celebrity and pop Revue 5 (Telefunken)
  • 1971: Thorns, thistles, rock and stone on top hit music box `71 (Telefunken)
  • 1971: Anne-Marie on The Great Star and Schlager Parade 4 (Decca)
  • 1972: Do You Love Me on Die große Hitparade 2 (Columbia / EMI Electrola)
  • 1972: Love without End on Die große Star Parade 1 (Music For Pleasure / Columbia)
  • 197 ?: Love without End on The Big Hit Express with 14 international stars (Discoton)
  • 1973: A love without end at Schlagerparty `73 (Deutscher Schallplattenclub)
  • 1975: Hey Diana on 20 Stars 20 Hits `75 (Columbia)

Writings as Volker Burkhardt

  • The idea of ​​the culture flat rate - development and feasibility. In: Scientia Nova. The interdisciplinary science magazine Volume 17, Institute for Academic Cooperation (Ed.), Marosi Verlag (Red., Layout and Publisher), Mannheim / BoD – Books on Demand (Manufacturer and Publisher), Norderstedt 2013, p. 59 ff.
  • National legal protection for copyright and ancillary copyright infringements. [Article], GRIN Verlag , Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-656-57109-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Volker B Burkhardt. In: International Law Directory , Martindale-Hubbell (Ed.), 1996. ISBN 978-1-561-60180-6
  2. ↑ Regines. In: Bandlexikon , Offenbach rocks!
  3. ^ Regines - I Take What I Want in Beat Beat Beat. hr, 1967.
  4. ^ "Jazzlife" At Night (Vol. I) at Discogs.
  5. ↑ Top hit music box ´71. WDR .
  6. ↑ Meeting Point. was-wurde-aus.at.
  7. ↑ Dr. Volker Bernd Burkhardt, attorney & notary aD lawyer website .
  8. ↑ In: Music Publishers' International ISMN Directory , KG Saur , 2003, pp. 63, 94, 140. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  9. ↑ Our candidates. This is us. FDP Frankfurt, February 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burkhardt, Volker Bernd (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera