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.
Walter Pörschmann - Edelweiß / Für die lust'gen Leut'
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence - Besame mucho / Take a deep breath
Andy Russell - Anniversary Song / My Best To You
Kid Ory and his Creole Dixieland Band - At a Georgia camp meeting / Mahogany hall stomp
Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester - Das deutsche Lied
Wilhelm Strienz - Heimweh nach Virginia / Träume nur
Michael Jary - Golfstrom / Florentine
Fred Bird - Wir flüstern
Otto Kermbachr Orchester / Polydor Tanzorchester - Froh und heiter /Lustige Dorfmusikanten
Egon Kaiser Orchester - Japanischer Laternentanz / Indischer Brautzug
Musette-Orchester Erich Schneidewind - Auf der bayrischen Alm / Elefant und Mücke
Barnabas von Geczy mit seinem Orchester - Hopsassa / Bayrische Hochzeit
Heinz Müller - Schön, daß du wieder bei mir bist / Deine Liebe ist mir ein Geschenk...
Barnabas von Geczy - In der blauen Dämmerstunde / Ich bin der arme Jonathan
Hermann Schittenhelm, Harmonika-Solo - Nola / Funkenregen
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Valse triste / Liebe, nach dir verlangt mein ganzes Leben
Oskar Joost Tango-Orchester - Heißes Blut / Gedämpftes Licht
Henry Allen - Rosetta / Dinah Lou
Jack Hylton und sein Orchester - Ich such' mir ein Mädel / Barbara
The Johnny Doods Black Bottom Stompers - Weary Blues / New Orleans Stomp
Paul Godwin und sein Künstler-Ensemble - Hochzeitszug in Liliput / Schmetterlings-Intermezzo
Dajos Bela - Ja, der Sonnenschein! / All alone with jou in a little Rendevous
Tanzorchester Tauber - Wiener Walzer / I love her! Oh-Oh! Oh!
