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.
Otto Reutter - Es geht vorwärts! / Kinder, Kinder, sorgt für Kinder
Salon-Orchester - Der Rosenkavalier
Ted Heath - Deep Forest / Pagan Love Song
Alvino Rey - Steel Guitar Rag / The Harry Lime Theme
Maria v. Schmedes - Franzl, ich hab` einen Auftrag für dich / Im Paradeisgartl
Zarah Leander - Ein paar Tränen werd' ich weinen / Heut' abend lad' ich mir die Liebe ein
Tanz-Orchester - Fayum / Caravan
Willy Hofmann - Margritli / In Paris an der Seine
Robert Koppel - Aus Winkeln und Gassen, großes Potourri
Emil Coleman - Tomorrow / Toot Toot Tootsie
Bimbo - Warum kam ich nicht reich zur Welt? / Zehn Uhr zehn...
Hans Busch Tanz-Orchester - Norwegischer Brautzug / Jungfrau unter der Linde
C. Richard Tauber - Mignon: Leb wohl, Mignon / Wie ihre Unschuld
Maria Andergast u. Hans Lang - Auf der Alm da gibt´s ka Sünd / Spatzenlied
Schuricke Terzett - Bum-Bum! / Komm zurück
Ilse Werner - Die kleine Stadt will schlafen geh'n / Wenn du einmal ein Mädel magst
Mile Marie Dubas - Pedro / Butterfly Tox
Otto Dobrindt mit seinem großen Künstler-Orchester - Teufelstanz / Intermezzo
Al Jolson - Sonny Boy / My Old Kentucky Home
Mitglieder des Berliner Philharmonischen Orchesters - Tanzen möcht' ich / Eva-Walzer
Solo- und Chorgesang - Schiff ahoi / Junge an der Reling
Peter Kante - Mädel, komm mit mir den Rhein entlang / Denn nur der Rhein mit seiner Fröhlichkeit ist Schuld
Joseph Schmidt - Addio / La Danza
