New Album

Greg Poppleton Releases Volume 1 in his Three Part Album Series, ‘20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1’.

Greg Poppleton has released the first volume in a three album series called, ‘20s 30s Tin Pan Alley’ as a limited edition CD and downloads.

Listen to ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ in German and English as a thank you to the band’s may online fans in Germany at the bottom of this post…

Available now at

• Bandcamp
• CDBaby
• iTunes
• Spotify

Greg describes himself as an authentic 1920s – 30s singer. “While I wasn’t alive in the 20s and 30s,” Greg says, “I fulfil all the other qualities of authentic for this style of vocal jazz and swing.”

When he was 3, he saw Louis Armstrong on TV and fell in love with the music. He was hooked on 20s jazz and 30s swing from then on and is a rarity in that to get to this music he didn’t migrate from some ‘youth’ music genre. I’m totally uninfluenced by other music.

Vocalists in the 20s and 30s needed strong voices to be heard. Greg’s a classically trained singer. His coach had been taught by Tito Schipa and Lauritz Melchior.

He’s not a jazz instrumentalist holding a tune while putting on a megaphone voice.

The nine songs on the album include a special German and English version of ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ as a thank you to the many fans Greg has in Germany.

Tour schedule

• October 12
  One Enchanted Evening – magic and music show Sydney
• November 9
  Saturday Jazz – Penrith
• January 18
  Saturday Jazz – Penrith
• February 1
  Great Art Deco Ball – 1920s Festival Katoomba
• March 15
  Jazz At The Pines – Dural
• August 12
  Bondi Pavilion
• October 20
  Private Event

Album release details

• Greg Poppleton – 1920s – 30s vocals
• Al Davey – trumpet and trombone
• Paul Furniss – alto sax and clarinet
• Grahame Conlon – guitar, banjo and ukulele
• Geoff Power – sousaphone
• Rod Herbert – sousaphone (song 6)
• Adam Barnard – washboard and snare
• Lawrie Thompson – drums and washboard (songs 2, 6, 8)

Recorded by Peter Gage, Paul Mirtschin and Peter O’Malley, Sydney.
Phil Punch and Jem Hoppe, Electric Cave.
Mixed by Phil Punch and Jem Hoppe, Electric Cave, Sydney.
Mastered by Bob Scott, Bob Scott Audio Design and Recording, Sydney.
Artwork by Michele Tenaglia, Turin.

Discography

• The Phantom Dancer (2006)
• Doin’ The Charleston (2012)
• Sweet Sue (2013)
• Back In Your Own Backyard (2016)
• 20s 30s Tin Pan Alley Vol. 1 (2019)

BIO

Greg Poppleton has been leading bands singing the songs of the 1920s – 30s since 1994. He began his present band in 2002. Since then, Greg has played jazz festivals and venues in Australia and the Waiheke International Jazz Festival in New Zealand. Two of Greg’s albums have been played on Sydney commercial radio. Greg has also been an award-winning jazz broadcaster since 1985. His Phantom Dancer radio show is heard on over 20 radio stations across Australia and online.