The fascination of 78rpm gramophone records is hardly on the wane, the number of enthusiasts is increasing permanently.
Good that you have found the way to schellack-plattenshop.net. Rummage in our offers, and - maybe - the one or another title will let your mind travel back to your childhood or youth. Or you remind great voices, famous conductors and interesting compositions of the past. Devoid of the shellac record they would be only names and terms without deeper content and significance. Gramophone records are timeless and will exist for decades, when compact disks are destroyed long since.
Emil Berliner
(1851 - 1929)
Berliner's first Grammophon
Barrauds Painting
"His Master's Voice"
Emile Berliner, born in Hanover, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1870, applied in the year 1887 for a patent regarding a discoid sound storage medium in which was carved a spiral groove. He called this disk "Schallplatte" himself. A further component was a recording and playing apparat too (the so-called "Coffee mill"), the forerunner of the gramophone.
A grandious marketing effectiveness had a logo which is based on the following story: The English painter Francis Barraud cared about the dog "Nipper" of his late brother. When he played his phonograph at times he could notice regularly that the dog listened attentively ahead the machine. So the idea came to paint this situation. Barraud offered the painting to the "Edison & Bell Phonograph Company", but they refused. Now he went to Berliner's "Gramophone Co." Whose director Owen told him that he was interested if Barraud painted the dog in front of a firm gramophone. In September, 1899 the picture was finished and was bought - together with the slogan "His Master's Voice" for the amount of 100 pounds. No doubt, this logo carried the support of gramophone records enormously, because it stood for high fidelity.
Dajos Béla - Vier Worte möcht' ich dir jetzt sagen.... / Ich lieb' dich doch
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Adua-Marsch / Hab' keine Sorgen
Henry Allen - Feeling Drowsy / Swing Out
Karkoff-Orchester - In der Laubenkolonie / Das macht uns keiner nach
Will Glahe und sein Musette-Orchester - Tauperlen / Schabernack
Peter Kreuder mit seinemn Solisten - Broadway Rhythmus / Ich werde nie das Gefühl los
Michael Jary mit seinem Kammer-Tanzorchester - An mein Herz! / Ich möchte so sein, wie du mich willst
Großes-Parlophon-Streich-Orchester: O. Dobrindt - Im Klostergarten / Auf dem persischen Markt
Birthe Wilke - The Blacksmith Blues / Lullaby of Broadway
H. Schlusnus - Heimliche Aufforderung / Heimweh
Cornel-Quintett - Tango-Max / Domino
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Délibáb / Träum' von mir
Toralf Tollefsen, Accordeon Solo - Hejre Kati / Promenading Rhythm
Franz Thon mit dem Tanzorchester des NWDR Hamburg - Macky-Boogie / Manhattan-Boogie
Boston Promenade Orchestra Arthur Fiedler - Jealousy / Entry of the Boyards
Three Brothers Nehring (Xylophones m. Orch.) - Bullfighter / Piano Pastimes
Mitglieder des Orchesters der Staatsoper, Berlin - In der Halle des Bergkönigs / Ases Tod
Wiener Schrammel Quartett - Wiener Blut / Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich
Stan Kenton - Minor Riff / Machito
Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow - Revolutionary Blues / Getting Together
Nonconformist Choir Union Festival - Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Sing Alleluia Forth
Johnnie Johnston - What a sweet Surprise / My heart sings
