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.
Die Octavios - Samowar / Czegedin
Heinrich Schlusnus - Ständchen / Heimkehr
Bavaria-Sinfonie-Orchester - Huldigungsmarsch / Hochzeitstag auf Troldhaugen
Frankie Laine und Jo Stafford - Let's have a Party / Christmas Roses
Xavier Cugat - Mambo Nr. 8 / Cuando Te Beso Tiemblo
Lionel Hampton - The Munson Street Breakdown / I can't get started
Dajos Béla - Von Heidelberg bis Barcelona
Heinz Munsonius mit sienen Solisten - Tutti Frutti / Herz-Solo
Don Cornell - I'm Blessed / Hold my Hand
The All Star Stompers - St. Louis Blues / Avalon
Lajos Kiss mit Serenaden Orchester - Rendez-vous / Sérenade d'amour
Mogens Wieth - Den bla Anemone / Skuld gammel Venskab rejn Forgo
Martiny-együttes - Marvelous mambo / Jégtánic
Johnny Dodds Trio - Blue Piano Stomp / Indigo Stomp
Bernhard Etté Orch. - Wir hören Walter Kollo, Schlager-Potpourri
Billy Banks - The 1943 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 119 / The 1943 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 120
Felix Schmidt-Doppelquartett - Heimkehr / Sonntag ist's
Philharmonisches Orchester: Emil Reesen - Traumbilder Teil I und II
Michael Jary mit seinem Kammer-Tanzorchester - Zwillinge / Waage
Lale Andersen - Wenn du kein Mädel weißt / Blaue Nacht am Hafen
Will Glahé und sein Harmonika-Orchester - Die Namenlose (Bezejmenna) / Quecksilber
Albert Vossen mit seinen Solisten, Jazz-Harmonika: Albert Vossen - Schnickschnack / Hexenschuß
Dajos Béla - Komm mit nach Varasdin / Orlow-Tango
The Blue Sioux City Five - Ti-Pi-Tin / In the mood
