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.
Johannes Heesters - Bist du's lachendes Glück? / Eine nach der anderen
Ernst Busch - Lied der Bergarbeiter / Lied der Arbeitslosen
Hans Albers - Schaukellied / Ich kam von Alabama...
Die Colibris - Die blaue Lagune Loana / Nachts in Honolulu auf Hawaii
Xavier Cugat - Los Carnavales De Oriente / Suena La Conga
Noro Morales and his Orchestra - Temptation / Cucha
Debroy Somers Band / Court Symphony Orchestra - Valse Memories / Community Lancers
Gale Storm - I Hear You Knocking / Never Leave Me
Richard Croooks & The Balladeers - Come where my Love lies dreaming / Ah! May the red rose live alway
Alfred Hause Orchester - Blue Tango / Tango Habana
Band of H.M Welsh Guards - Songs by the Camp Fireside Part I / Part II
Jean Kubelik - Zapateado (Pablo de Sarasate) / unbespielt
Fred Bird, Marimba Band - Mondnacht auf der Donau / Liebesweisen
Al Jolson - There's a Rainbow' Round My Shoulder / Sonny Boy
Will Glahé und sein Musette-Orchester - Portugiesischer Fischertanz / Flimmerkiste
Evelyn Künneke - Oh lala / Oh Bobby
Ike Carpenter and his Orch. - The blue pacific blues / Fantasy Staccato
Leo Slezak - Der Lenz / Leise flehen meine Lieder
Dr. E. Römer - Potpourri aus der Operette "Das Land des Lächelns" Teil I und II
Württemberg. Staatsorchester - Notre Dame / Der Schmuck der Madonna
Anneliese Singer und Michael Berger - Ja das Jodeln / In der Bergeinsamkeit
Felix Schmidt-Doppelquartett - Heimkehr / Sonntag ist's
Brigitte Rabald und das Hemmann-Quintett - Heimweh / Das ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick
Schuricke-Terzett - Schenk mir dein Lächeln, Maria! / Es könnte sein
Erwin Hartung - Freut euch des Lebens
