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.
Rudolf Schock - Largo / Caro mio ben
Pablo de Sarasate - Habanera / Miramar
Edgar Wallace - The man in the ditch
Mimi Thomas - Büble, mein Büble / Flattern zum Abschied die Fahnen
Joseph Schwarz - Prolog aus "Bajazzo" einseitig bespielt, Rückseite blank
Salon-Orchester / Tanz-Orchester mit Refraingesang - Flattergeister / Schade, daß Liebe ein Mädchen ist
Joe Sullivan - 24 Hours at "Booths" / The Bass romps away
Rosita Serrano - Oui, Madame / Das ist mein Parfüm
Andy Russell - Anniversary Song / My Best To You
Jazz Harmonika Albert Vossen mit seinen Solisten - Heiteres Spiel / Reifenspiele
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra - The Moose / Sky Liner
Malcolm Desmond - Smilin' through / When a certain pair of eyes
Jesse Crawford - The Dance of the blue Danube / I can't do without you
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux; Guy Luypaerts - Monde / Metamorphose
Johnnie Eager - Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai / Kissin' bug Boogie
Paul Godwin und sein Künstler-Ensemble - O Frühling, wie bist du so schön / Mohnblumen
Nonconformist Choir Union Festival - Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Sing Alleluia Forth
Walter Sommerfeld - Steckenpferd-Parade / Max und Moritz
Coro Belmonte - Gui, Gui / Fiorituro Italica
Dr. Weissmann mit großem Symphonie-Orchester, Staatsoper Berlin - Zweite ungarische Rhapsodie
Willi Stanke mit seinem Orchester - Karussell / Grand Hotel
Heinz Sandauer - Hit Parade 1954
Harry James and his orchestra - Concerto for Trumpet / Trumpet Blues and Cantabile
Ilja Livschakoff Orchester - Blauer Pavillon / Küsse im Dunkeln
Wilhelm Strienz - Wilhelm Strienz singt Teil I und II
