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...
The Red Norvo Trio - Swedish Pastry / Night and Day
Lucienne Boyer - Dans La Fumée / Parlez-moi D'amour
Georg Kulenkampff - Romanze F-Dur (Beethoven)
Jerry Wald und Chris Connors - Cherokee / You`re The Cream In My Coffee
Serge Abramovic - Good Night / Signora
Kurt Widmann und sein Orchester - Ali Baba / Auf der grünen Wiese
Alexander Fleßburg - Zweites Rheinländer-Potpourri Teil I und II
Carla Splette, Franz Klarwein und Schuricke Terzett - Maske in blau
Bing Crosby, Chor und Orchester Ken Darby - Jim, Johnny And Jonas / Farewell
Die sieben Raben - Smoky / Oklahoma-Tom
Hans Busch - Böhmische Polka / Heut' spielen die Geigen
Lemmy Special Mabaso - London Twist / Welcome Lemmy
Stan Kenton and his Orchestra - Machito / Collaboration
Carroll Gibbons and his String Quintet - I'm getting sentimental over you / Body and soul
Gracie Fields - Danny Boy / Wish me luck
Woody Herman - Mexican Hat Trick / Sleepy Serenade
Tino Rossi - Reginella Campagnola / Mexikanische Serenade
Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow - Revolutionary Blues / Getting Together
Eddie Fisher mit Hugo Wnterhalters - Outside of heaven / Lady of Spain
Grosses Künstler-Orchester - Souvenir / Poem
Xavier Cugat und sein Orchester - Mambo No. 8 / Cha-Cha-Cha
Rafael Canaro et son Orchestre - Desconfiale / Salud ... Salud
