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.
Jo Stafford und Frankie Laine - Rollin' Down the Line / Goin' like Wildfire
Barnabas von Geczy - In der blauen Dämmerstunde / Ich bin der arme Jonathan
Willy Berking Orch. - Berking Spitzenserie Nr. 5 "Ping-Pong" / Berking Spitzenserie Nr. 5 "Feuerwerk"
Scala-Orchester; Oscar Mayrhauser - Kirschblüte / Roter Mohn
Salon-Orchester - Am Lagerfeuer / Aufzug der Stadtwache
Shirley Bassey - If I Had A Needle And Thread / Tonight My Heart She Is Crying
Parlophon-Orchester - Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade / Der Rose Hochzeitszug
Lionel Hampton - The Munson Street Breakdown / I can't get started
Frederick Hippmann m. s. Künstler-Orchester - Phantastische Serenade / Eine kleine Melodie
Werner Alberti - Nein, bin Bajazzo nicht bloß! / Hüll dich in Tand
Will Glahe und sein Musette-Orchester - Hosenmatz / Auf und ab
New Orleans Bootblacks - Flat Foot / Mad Dog
The Stargazers - I See the Moon / Eh Cumpari
Herr Schröder - Lebet wohl, ihr schönen Tage / Fahr wohl, ich hatte dich so lieb
Gustav Jürgens - Der Auerhahn / Dort unter'm Baum
Die vier Richters - Ist alles dunkel, ist alles trübe / Fahr' mich in die Ferne, mein blonder Matrose
Mogens Wieth - Den bla Anemone / Skuld gammel Venskab rejn Forgo
Xavier Cugat and his Orch., Juan Manuel - Lisboa Antigua / Cergo rosa y manzano blanco
Pee Wee Hunt - Oh! / San
Michael Jary - Golfstrom / Florentine
Barnabas von Geczy - Cabecita / Die träumende Melodie
New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra - Petit Suite De Concert (2 Platten)
Gus Clark - Jezebel / I've got you under my skin
