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.
Mandolinen-Club "Napoli" - Pan und Waldschrat / Napoli
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Bei zärtlicher Musik / Puszta-Fox
August Bockmann - "Meistersinger": Preislied / Am stillen Herd
Dajos Bela - Bienchen Maja / Dornröschens Brautfahrt
Louis Armstrong- That's when J'll come back to you / Hotter than that
Reginald Foort - Sonny Boy / Sally of my Dreams
Ferko String Band - Happy days are here again / Deep in the heart of Texas
Hanna Seebach-Ziegler - Ave Verum / Laudate Dominum
Tanz-Sinfonie-Orchester, Musikalische Einrichtung und Leitung: Peter Kreuder - Caravan / Jalousie
Die kleine Cornelia - Cornelias Matrosenlied / Großmama erzähl' uns ein Märchen
Tanzorchester Adolf Steimel - Sag' mir du / Vergessen kann ich dich nimmer!
Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers - Jelly Roll Blues / National Emblem March
Xylophon-Künstler-Orchester - Elfengeflüster / Puppenspiele
Andy Russell - Anniversary Song / My Best To You
Kitty Kallen / Four Aces - Little Things Mean A Lot / Three Coins in The Fountain
Dorle Rath - Irgendwann / Regenpfeifer
Willy Behrendt mit seinem Hawaiian-Tanz-Orchester - Hörst du das Lied der Geige? / Ninna-Nanna
Circolo Mandolinistico Giuseppe Verdi of Leghorn - The Belfry / Dance of the waves
Doris Day - Sugar Bush / A guy is a guy
Berliner Konzert-Verein - Ungarischer Marsch aus "Faust's Verdammung" / Walzer aus "Margarethe"
Barnabás von Géczy - Ein Lied aus meiner Heimat / Es war ein Frühlingstag im sonnigen Sorrent
