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.
Franz Birrenkoven - Leb wohl, aus "Mignon" / Ach so fromm, aus "Martha"
Die Cyprys mit Kinderchor - Die Fischerin vom Bodensee / Der kleine Eisbär
Dr. Weissmann mit Berliner Symphonie-Orchester - Peer Gynt Suite
Walter Dobschinski - The rich Maharajah of Magadar / Was ist denn schön dabei
Horst Winter - The Gipsy / Maria aus Bahia
Eduardo Vandaa - Der Reigen / Walzer aus Paris
Die 3 Jools - Pack den "Badenweiler" aus / Der sonst so müde Willi
Lionel Hampton - Rag Mop / For You My Love
Billy Cotton - Dinah / Some of these Days
Heinz Munsonius mit sienen Solisten - Tutti Frutti / Herz-Solo
Perry Como - If you were my girl / I cross my fingers
Herbert Ernst Groh - Ay, ay, ay / Schenk mir dein Lächeln, Maria
Hans Freese Orch. - Paul Lincke Melodien
Earl Bostic his alto sax and his Orchestra - Flamingo / Sleep
Maria Roland u. Franz Schier - Die Schaffnerin / Zwei aus Ottakring
Friedel Hensch und die Cyprys - Amara, das Zigeunermädchen / Ein Edelweiß für dich
Arthur Young - Blind man's buff / Ain't missbehavin'
Evi Kent und Bob Parker - Warum dreh'n sich alle Männer nach mir um / Was kann schöner sein
Louis Armstrong - Miscellany Rhythm Style Series, No. 5 / Miscellany Rhythm Style Series, No. 6
Willy Hagara - San Marco Glocken / Liebling, deine Augen lügen
Wilhelm Strienz - Im Feldquartier auf hartem Stein / Antje mein blondes Kind
