Little Trees were a short-lived Danish
teen pop
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girl group
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from
Copenhagen
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. They are best known for their contribution to the soundtrack of the 2001 animated film ''
Help! I'm a Fish
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'', for which they performed the title track, "
Help! I'm a Fish (Little Yellow Fish)
"Help! I'm a Fish" is a song first released by Danish pop duo Creamy in 2000 for their second album, '' We Got the Time''. The following year, Danish girl group Little Trees released their version which was included in the Danish film ''Help! I'm ...
".
"Help! I'm a Fish (Little Yellow Fish)" was produced by
Ole Evenrud
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, of
A*Teens
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fame. Evenrud also produced a similar-sounding version of the song for the Danish duo,
Creamy
Creamy were a Danish teen-pop duo, composed of Rebekka Mathew and Rannva Joensen.
Their 1999 debut album, ''Creamy'', was recorded when the pair were just thirteen years of age, and composed of euro-pop versions of children's songs. In 2001, ...
.
The trio consisted of Marie Brøbech,
Stephanie Nguyen and Sofie Walburn Kring, who were 13, 14 and 15 years of age at the time, respectively. The girls had known each other since childhood and had been fixated on singing and dancing from the ages of 8–9. The producers of the original soundtrack for the film ''Help I'm a Fish'' approached the girls with the title song, which they performed and toured with in Berlin and London (performing on ''
Top of the Pops
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''). "Help! I'm a Fish" gained
triple platinum
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status in
Scandinavia
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.
Discography
Singles
References
External links
Little Trees biography, news and discographyat Bubblegum Dancer
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Musical groups established in 2001
Musical groups disestablished in 2002
Danish pop music groups
Danish girl groups
English-language singers from Denmark
Musical groups from Copenhagen