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.

Louis Armstrong- That's when J'll come back to you / Hotter than that

Die Octavios - Samowar / Czegedin

Hans Albers - Schaukellied / Ich kam von Alabama...

Johannes Heesters - Bist du's lachendes Glück? / Eine nach der anderen

Billy Cotton and his Band - I Must Have On More Kiss, Kiss, Kiss / F.D.R. Jones

Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble - Der Hampelmann

Friedel Schuster, Lotte Werkmeister, Erich Poremski - Frau Luna 1. Teil / 2. Teil

Paul Godwin, Kurt Grosse, H. Steinmann - Stille Nacht / O du fröhliche

St. Hildas Band - Pioneers / Two's Company

Carla Splette, Franz Klarwein und Schuricke Terzett - Maske in blau

Joni James - Why Don`t You Believe Me / Wishing Ring

Marek Weber - Rosen aus dem Süden 1. Teil / 2. Teil

New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra - Petit Suite De Concert (2 Platten)

Paul Godwin und sein Künstler-Ensemble - Hochzeitszug in Liliput / Schmetterlings-Intermezzo

Dajos Bela - Faust-Walzer / An der schönen blauen Donau

Die Metropol Vocalisten - Pech und Schwefel 1. Teil / 2. Teil

Billy Cotton - The Duck Song / A Thick, thick Fog in London

Syd Dean and his Band - Till we two are one / The happy wanderer

Gebrüder Steiner - Zurück zum Walzer

Willy Beyler - Wolgalied / Komm Zigany!

Die Kilima Hawaiians - Eine Insel aus Träumen geboren / Ade! Ade!

Peter Kreuder - Ralph Benatzky Teil 1 / Teil 2

Dirigent Leo Blech - Carmen: Vorspiel zum II. und IV. Akt und Ballettmusik

Hotcha Trio - Grands Boulevards / Padam Padam

Werner Overheidt - Und es weht der Wind / Hotel zur Einsamkeit
