Dream A Little Cream - Wie Der Rock'n'Roll Nach Frankfurt Kam

In the organizer's words:

Additional performance due to high demand

Additional screening 1: 22.02.2025 12:00 noon
Additional screening 2: 23.02.2025 12:00 noon

Jochen Hasmanis (frame-spotting.de) is a filmmaker and owner of an independent media production company based in Hegewiese-Schmitten in the Taunus region, which specializes in high-quality documentaries and music films. Jochen Hasmanis has already realized several award-winning projects about the local music scene and is committed to promoting the German music and cultural scene.

About the family business Hummel & Cream Music
In 1900, the instrument maker Heinrich Hummel came to Frankfurt am Main with his wife Babette. They hoped for good business from the wealthy citizens of the free imperial city and a brisk demand for the craft of zither making. With the birth of their daughters Luise (1902) and Irene (1904), a long-cherished idea for a new business took shape: The music store Heinrich Hummel was founded in 1904 at Taunusstrasse 24. In addition to home-made zither instruments, the product range at that time also included mandolins, violins, touring guitars and other plucked instruments. Harmonicas, drums, timpani, brass and woodwind instruments, marching band and marching music instruments as well as sheet music rounded off the range. Heinrich Hummel also founded several zither clubs and bands in Frankfurt am Main.

After the end of the First World War, the Babette Hummel music store moved to Taunusstrasse 43, where the guitar and bass department was located until 2018. Over the decades, the product range expanded considerably. Due to the strong presence of the Allies in Frankfurt, the latest trends from America spilled across the pond. Hans and Klaus were the first music retailers in Europe to import the complete Fender range on a large scale, followed by Gibson and Rickenbacker. In order to be able to offer the legendary Hammond organ, they boarded the company's own Opel Blitz, drove to England and imported it as well as amplifier and vocal systems, sound systems for live clubs, bars and concert halls, and the first synthesizers from Robert Moog. It was the heyday of showbands and dance halls, the disco had not yet been invented.

At the beginning of the 1970s, ground was broken for a recording studio in Frankfurt-Oberrad. Hans, who had trained as a music teacher at the Hohner Music School in Trossingen, and his brother Klaus, who had completed his classical music dealer training, fulfilled a childhood dream by building the recording studio: the Cream Recording Studios opened in 1978. Artists such as Nazareth, Markus, Nena, Günther Strack, Geier Sturzflug, Costa Cordalis and Delegation, to name but a few, recorded in the Cream Studios.

Also in 1978, the brothers Hans and Klaus opened the Percussion Center at Taunusstrasse 49 together with Mingo ("Good old Daddy of Hessian Drummers" - Rodgau Monotones quote). At the time, it was the first drum store with a demonstration room. At that time, it was common to buy drums off the shelf. At last, interested drummers could try out and compare Gretsch, Slingerland, Sonor or Ludwig drums side by side.