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.
Vasa Prihoda, Violin Solo - Souvenir / Serenata
The Four Harmony Kings - Shout Hallelujah ( Cause i´m Home ) / When Eliza Rolls Her Eyes
Paul Godwin Orchester - Yearning Just for You / Pretty Puppy
Lionel Hampton - Rag Mop / For You My Love
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Whither Thou Goest / Mandolino
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Délibáb / Träum' von mir
Doris Day - This too shall pass away / Choo choo train
Arnim Münch - Wir hören Walter Kollo
Evelyn Künneke, die drei Glorias - Winke, winke / O Juana
Salon-Orchester - Der Rosenkavalier
Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra - Temptation / Orchids in the moonlight
Mitglieder des Orchesters der Staatsoper, Berlin - In der Halle des Bergkönigs / Ases Tod
Willy Forst - Ich bin heute ja so verliebt! / Wiener Operette
Vico Torriani - Straßenserenade (Ohne Geld durch die Welt) / Ich hab über Nacht Italienisch studiert
Grammophon Streich Orchester - Ja Mamám / Das ist die Liebe
Peter Kreuder mit seinemn Solisten - Broadway Rhythmus / Ich werde nie das Gefühl los
Evelyn Künneke, die drei Glorias - Winke, winke / O Juana
Die kleine Cornelia- Der kleine Cowboy Conney / Mit 'nem Wuppdich
Vera Lynn - Leg' dein Glück in meine Hände / Addio Amore
Berliner Philharmoniker: Dr. Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt - Herzwunden / Letzter Frühling
Dajos Bela - Ouvertüre zur Operette: Banditenstreiche Teil I und II
Regimental Band of H. M. Scots Guards - Nell Gwyn Dances Teil I / Nell Gwyn Dances Teil II
Peter Kitter - Morten Korch Jens August Schade / Kriminalroman
