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.
Wilhelm Strienz - Feldpost für Annchen / Heimweh
Evelyn Künneke - Drei kleine Geschichten / Ich freu mich schon auf Donnerstag
Chor des Deutschen Opernhauses, Berlin - Die Meistersinger (Wagner)
Otto Dobrindt's Tanz-Symphoniker - Tango Espanol / Tango-Illusion
Sir Henry J. Wood - Danse Macabe Part I und II
The Sylvians / Marek Weber und sein Orchester - Perhap's you'll think of me / Carolina Sweetheart
Will Bradley and his Boogie Woogie Boys - Lightning Boogie / Sugar Hill Boogie Woogie
Violin-Solo - Serenade (Drdla) / La Serenata (Braga)
Kapelle Thomas Wendlinger - Tanz der bösen Buben / Wiener Wäschermadln
Dajos Béla - Von Heidelberg bis Barcelona
RIAS Symphoie-Orchester Berlin: Ferenc Fricasy - Zoltán Kodály Tänze aus Galanta
Berliner Liedertafel: Max Wiedemann - Freiheit, die ich meine / Der Schweizer
Helmut Zacharias und seine Solisten - Schönes Wetter ! / Tag und Nacht
Hans Bund - Kleiner Tanz / Rumänisch
Jazz Harmonika Albert Vossen mit seinen Solisten - Heiteres Spiel / Reifenspiele
Richter Duett / Kurt Richter- Ich habe den Frühling gesehen / Isola Bella
Louis Armstrong - Second New Rhythm-Style Series No. 71 / Second New Rhythm-Style Series No. 72
Die kleine Cornelia - Wie ein Spatz,wie ein Spatz / Dort am Nil wohnt ein Krokodil
Marek Weber - Araby / Can you forget
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Hullamzo Balaton
Peter Kreuder spielt Walter Kollo
Frankie Franko and his Louisianians - Somebody stole my gal / Golden Lily Blues
Barnabas von Geczy - Cabecita / Die träumende Melodie
