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.
Rudolf Schock - Largo / Caro mio ben
Karl Valentin und Liesl Karlstadt - Buchbinder Wanninger / Die alten Rittersleut
Wilhelm Strienz - Heimweh nach Virginia / Träume nur
Eric Harden, Luigi Bernauer - Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein / Chinamann
Louis Armstrong - Second New Rhythm-Style Series No. 105 / Second New Rhythm-Style Series No. 106
Tanz-Orchester Metropol - Dornröschens Brautfahrt / Vers l'Atlantide (Nach Atlantis!)
Will Bradley and his Boogie Woogie Boys - Lightning Boogie / Sugar Hill Boogie Woogie
Eddie Tower - Gitarren Serenade / Münchner G'schichten
Hans Rehmstedt - Komm in den kleinen Pavillon / Lache, tanze, singe
Willy Schneider, Baß-Bariton - Vor meinem Vaterhaus steht eine Linde / Der Rosenkranz
Gerhard Wendland & Comedien Quartett - Si, Si, Senor / Mädel, wenn es Nacht wird
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra - I'm in love with you, that's why / No fooling
Vera Molnar - Stop / Happy, happy days
Maria Roland u. Franz Schier - Die Schaffnerin / Zwei aus Ottakring
Kapelle Merton - Alaska / Ca.. c'est Paris
Will Glahé - Hör mein Lied, Violetta / In meinen Gedanken
Sousa's Band - Hands Across the Sea / The Royal Welsh fusiliers
Billy May und sein Orchester - My Silent Love / Fat Man Boogie
Benjamino Gigli u. Maria Caniglia - Holde Aida / O Du süßestes Mädchen
Rita Gallos - Fliege mit mir in die Heimat / Traumboot der Liebe
Tex Beneke - St.Louis Blues March / Dreamin' is my business
Franz Birrenkoven - Leb wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen, aus "Czar und Zimmermann" / Vater, Mutter, aus "Undine"
Beniamino Gigli - Serenata ( Rimpianto) / Serenato ( Love´s Nocturne)
Rita Paul und Bully Buhlan mit Gesangterzett - Schlagerparade / Wenn das die lieben Eltern wüßten
