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.
Kapelle Merton - Zwei rote Rosen, ein zarter Kuß / Heut' sing ich nur für dich!
Rosita Serrano - Oui, Madame / Das ist mein Parfüm
Kurt Hohenberger mit seinem Solistenorchester - Amorcito mio... / Ich mache alles mit Musik
Großes Harmonie-Orchester - Die türkische Scharwache / Die Schmiede im Walde
Woody Herman - Summer Sequence 3 / Summer Sequence 4
Rossini's Accordeon Band - Follow the Fleet, Part 1 / Part 2
Berliner Liedertafel: Max Wiedemann - Gott grüße dich! / Schäfers Sonntagslied
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra: Arthur Fiedler - Symphonic Suite "Masquerade" (Khachaturian), (2 Platten)
Solomon - Nocturne in D Flat Major No. 8, Op. 27, No. 2 / Berceuse, Op. 57
Johnnie Johnston - What a sweet Surprise / My heart sings
Wilhelm Strienz - Hinter dieser schweren Pforte / Abends in der Taverne
Jack Teagarden and Orchestra - Persian Rug / The Sheik of Araby
Paul Godwin und sein Künstler-Ensemble - Die Hochzeit der Winde / Hoch lebe der Tanz
Jesse Crawford - A Precious Little Thing called Love / Carolina Moon
Geraldo and his Rumba Orchestra - The magic of you / Thy rhythm of the rumba
Maynard Ferguson tp, Stan Kenton Orchestra - The Hot Canary / What's New?
Wilhelm Strienz - Wenn dich die Menschen auch kränken / Viele gold'ne Sternlein steh'n am blauen Himmelszelt
Peter Anders - Peter Anders bei Franz Lehár
Theo Reuter - Servus Wien Teil I und II
Peter Igelhoff - Ich Pfeif Heut Nacht / Das Nachtgespenst
Johnny Dodds' Washboard Wizards - Little Bits / Struggling
Géza Komor Orch. - Herzen und Blumen / Blumenlied
