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.

Hans Albers - Schaukellied / Ich kam von Alabama...

Paul Whiteman - Cuban Love Song / Tell me with a Love Song

Otto Kermbach mit seinem Orchester - Zweites Rheinländer-Potpourri

Adalbert Luczkowski - Schwarzer Panther / Rumba Tambah

Großes-Parlophon-Streich-Orchester: O. Dobrindt - Im Klostergarten / Auf dem persischen Markt

Pierre Palla - Warschauer Konzert

Coro Belmonte - Gui, Gui / Fiorituro Italica

Eddie Brunner - No can do / Chickery Chick

Orkest Zonder Naam - Down in the valley / Bolero

Oscar Joost - Lustiges Wien

Minneapolis Sinfonie-Orchester - Andante Cantabile Teil I und Schluß

Ruby Murray - Softly, softly / What could be more beautiful

Glocken der Frauenkirche in Münchern / Glocken des Domes von Passau

Heinrich Schlusnus - O Tod, du Wort des Grauens, aus "Die Macht des Schicksals"

Willy Beyler - Wolgalied / Komm Zigany!

Otto Kermbach - Münchener Bilderbogen

Tanz-Orchester - Donausagen

Heinz Munsonius - Der Herr Torero / La-Le-Lu

Erwin Hartung - Am Sonntag geh'n wir beide aus / Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball

Walter v. Lennep / Kurt Mühlhardt - Wer einmal verliebt war / Das alte Spinnrad

Don Porto's Novelty Accordeon Band - Good Night / Just as we used to be

Artiphon-Orchester - Marionetten / Die Mühle im Schwarzwald
