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.
Berliner Sängerverein Cäcilia Melodia - Groß sind die Wogen / Vespergesang
Franz Birrenkoven - Rigoletto: Freundlich blick' ich / O wie so trügerisch
Oskar Joost Tanz-Orchester - Caoutchouc / Caramba
Herbert Dawson - Idylle / Evensong
Werner Müller mit dem RIAS-Tanzorchester - Trumpet Blues / Leap Frog
Philadelphia Orchester - Polowetzer Tänze aus "Fürst Igor"
De Groot and his Orchestra - Bitter Sweet / Sleepy Valley
Wilhelm Strienz - Heimweh nach Virginia / Träume nur
Johnnie Johnston - What a sweet Surprise / My heart sings
George Olsen & his Orchestra / Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Lucky Day / Hallelujah!
Barnabas von Geczy - Ungarwein / Im leichten Schritt
Willi Stanke mit seinem Orchester - Großvaters Uhr / Es war einmal eine Liebe
Bergersche Kammermusik-Vereinigung - Melodie / Reverie
Paul Knüpfer & Waldemar Henke mit Chor - Banditen-Duette aus "Alessandro Stradella" und "Fra Diavolo"
Cornel-Trio - Es fuhr ein Seemann hinaus / Ramona
Ilja Livschakoff Orchester - Blauer Pavillon / Küsse im Dunkeln
The Dixie Four - Kentucky Stomp / St. Louis Man
RIAS Symphoie-Orchester Berlin: Ferenc Fricasy - Zoltán Kodály Tänze aus Galanta
Egon Vogel - Voll Musik ist die Nacht... / Vergeud' nicht die Tage mit Träumen...
Werner Alberti - Und es blitzten die Sterne / Ach wie so trügerisch, aus "Rigoletto"
