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.
Herr Schröder - Lebet wohl, ihr schönen Tage / Fahr wohl, ich hatte dich so lieb
Parlophon-Streich-Orchester - Bleisoldaten / Leuchtkäferchens Stelldichein
Louis Armstrong - Miscellany Rhythm Style Series, No. 5 / Miscellany Rhythm Style Series, No. 6
Jelly Roll Morton - Buffalo Blues / Sergant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues
Otto Dobrindt mit seinem Orchester - Japanischer Glockentanz / Tanz der Glockenblumen
Kurt Mühlhardt / Hanns Petersen - Woll'n wir heute bummeln geh'n? / Kleiner Bär von Berlin
Albert Sandler and his grand Hotel Orchestra - C'est vous / Wait
M. Georges Milton - Qui craint le grand méchant loup? / Profitez-en, Mesdames!
Die kleine Cornelia - Cornelias Matrosenlied / Großmama erzähl' uns ein Märchen
Will Glahé Orchester - Reginella Campagnola / Tanzende Finger
Das Comedien-Quartett - Auf der Kö / Am alten Schlossturm
Rudi Schuricke - Wind weht weit über's Meer! / Am nächsten Tag...
New Symphony Orchestra - "Nell Gwyn" Dances Teil I / "Nell Gwyn" Dances Teil II
Nonconformist Choir Union Festival - Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven / Sing Alleluia Forth
Organ Solo by Jack Courtnay - The world is waiting for the sunsrise / Just a cottage small
Tanz-Orchester Metropol - Dornröschens Brautfahrt / Vers l'Atlantide (Nach Atlantis!)
Bix Beiderbecke - Second new Rhythm Style Series, No. 183 / Second new Rhythm Style Series, No. 184
Greening's Dance Orchestra London - Kashmiri / Tempel-Glocken
Guy Mitchell - Knee deep in the Blues / Take me back Baby
Parlophon-Orchester - Am goldenen Horn / Indianerliebe
Hans Bund's Piano Rhythmiker - Melodien in Dur und Moll,
