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.
Dr. Weissmann mit Berliner Symphonie-Orchester - Peer Gynt Suite
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Bei zärtlicher Musik / Puszta-Fox
Johnny Dodds' Dixieland Jug Blowers - Boodle am Shake / Carpet Alley
Paul Mania - Am Lagerfeuer / Nachtigallen-Ständchen
Billy Banks - The 1943 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 119 / The 1943 Super Rhythm-Style Series, No. 120
Hermann Schittenhelm, Harmonika-Solo - Nola / Funkenregen
Karl Jörn - Frühlingslied (Gounod) / Frühlingszeit
Paul Knüpfer - Drei Könige / Die Hirten
Woody Herman - Woodhopper's Ball / Indian Boogie Woogie
Wiener Schrammel Quartett - Wiener Blut / Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich
Nonconformist Choir Union Festival - Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Sing Alleluia Forth
Adalbert Lutter Orch. - Siehst du die Sterne / Heute Nacht bin ich auf alles gefaßt
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - Chloe / My Ohio Home
Ferko String Band - Happy Days are here again / Deep in the heart of Texas
Peter Igelhoff - "Wir machen Musik"
Edith-Lorand-Orchester - Erinnerungen an Herkulesbad / Lotosblumen
Frankie Laine - Flamenco-Jealousy
Barnabas von Geczy - Santa poesia / Deutsche Tänze Op. 9a und 18a
Ferko String Band - Happy days are here again / Deep in the heart of Texas
Rosetta Crawford - Sepia Series No.11 / Sepia Series No.12
Tony Martin - I just love you / There's danger in your eyes, Cherie
Johnny Doods Hot Six - Heah' me talkin' / My little Isabel
