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.
Bimbo - Warum kam ich nicht reich zur Welt? / Zehn Uhr zehn...
Tony Martin - I just love you / There's danger in your eyes, Cherie
Grammophon-Künstler-Orchester - Carmen (Bizet)
Erich Schneidewind - Wiener Pastell / Die schönsten Träume
Nelly Wijsbek - Crying in the Chapel /You're fooling someone
Evelyn Künneke - Ach Babette / Meine Augen sagen "Ja"
Helmut Zacharias Jazz Ensemble - Embraceable You / What´s That Thing Called Love
Woody Herman - Put that Ring on my Finger / Bijou
Hans-Arno Simon - Anneliese / Ach, sag doch nicht immer wieder Dicker zu mir
Heyn-Quartett - Freut euch des Lebens Teil 1 / Teil 2
Doris Day - This too shall pass away / Choo choo train
Victor Silvester - The Story Of Tina / Stars In My Eyes
Rudi Schuricke - Tiefblauer Abend / Möwe, du fliegst in die Heimat
Orchester - Gipsy Love Waltz / Dorothy Selection
Mario Traversa, Violine - Portugiesischer Fischertanz / Da draußen in der Wachau
Evelyn Künneke, die drei Glorias - Winke, winke / O Juana
Margaret Whiting - River Road Two Step / Good Morning, Mr. Echo
Mogens Wieth - Den bla Anemone / Skuld gammel Venskab rejn Forgo
Alcron Jazz, R.A. Dvorsky's Melody Boys - Eine Nacht von Saragossa
Adalbert Lutter - Puszta-Fox / Fifi
Die Elskamp-Brothers - Home on the Range / Sioux City Sue
