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.
Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men - Copenhagen / Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
Pete Daily's Chicagoans - When the war breaks out in Mexico / Circus Side
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Hullamzo Balaton
Wiener Schrammel Quartett - Wiener Blut / Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich
C. Richard Tauber - Mignon: Leb wohl, Mignon / Wie ihre Unschuld
Kurt Reichherzer; Juan Llossas - Liebling, was wird nun aus uns beiden? / Marokko
Zonophon-Orchester mit Gesang - In der Nacht / Liebliche kleine Dingerchen
Les Howard and The Stargazers - Bless your Heart / Saturday Rag
Earl Hines - Love me tonight / Down among the sheltering palms
Jan Behrens, Bass mit Orchesterbegleitung - Good bye Jonny / kleine Taverne in Shanghai
Michael Cheshire - Lullaby of the leaves / The song that the Angels love
Franz Birrenkoven - Rigoletto: Freundlich blick' ich / O wie so trügerisch
Johnny Doods Hot Six - Heah' me talkin' / My little Isabel
Horst Schimmelpfennig - Poèm / Narzissus
Karl Jörn - Tannhäuser: Inbrunst im Herzen / Nach Rom gelangte ich
Louis Armstrong - Second new Rhytm Style Series No 143 / Second new Rhytm Style Series No 144
Will Glahe und sein Musette-Orchester, Akkordeon-Solo: Will Glahe - Feuerwerk / Techtelmechtel
Louis Armstrong - You run your Mouth, I'll run my Business / Cain and Abel
Scala-Orchester; Oscar Mayrhauser - Kirschblüte / Roter Mohn
Barnabas von Geczy - Santa poesia / Deutsche Tänze Op. 9a und 18a
Willi Stanke mit seinem Orchester - Großvaters Uhr / Es war einmal eine Liebe
Coro Belmonte - Gui, Gui / Fiorituro Italica
