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.
Rudolf Schock - Largo / Caro mio ben
Red Ingle - Let Me In / Chew Tobacco Rag
The Mills Brothers - Some of these Days / Tiger Rag
Jazz-Sinfonie-Orchester - Rosita / Primavera
The Band of H. M. Irish Guards - The Shanghai Sailor / The Turkish Patrol
Jazz Harmonika Albert Vossen mit seinen Solisten - Heiteres Spiel / Reifenspiele
Georgie Auld - Manhatten / Solitaire
Jelly Roll Morton - Buffalo Blues / Sergant Dunn's Bugle Call Blues
Peter Anders - Querschnitt durch die Oper: Mignon
Konzert-Orchester - Im Uhrenladen / Die Schlittschuhläufer
Jazz Harmonika Albert Vossen mit seinen Solisten - Heiteres Spiel / Reifenspiele
Mogens Wieth - Den bla Anemone / Skuld gammel Venskab rejn Forgo
Gertrude Niesen - La Cucaracha / La Conga
George Olsen & his Orchestra / Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Lucky Day / Hallelujah!
Frederick Hippmann m. s. Künstler-Orchester - Phantastische Serenade / Eine kleine Melodie
Johnnie Eager - Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai / Kissin' bug Boogie
Mitglieder des Berliner Philharmonischen Orchesters - Menuett / Berühmtes Menuett
Große Odeon-Orgel, Solist Marcel Palotti - Ist es wirklich wahr? / Masquerade
Felix Schmidt-Doppelquartett - Heimkehr / Sonntag ist's
Horst Winter - Frauen sind keine Engel / Heut sehnt sich mein Herz nach Dir
Barnabas von Geczy - Stunden und Tage / 1 mal 2 mal 3 mal 4 mal
Franz Thon - Feuerwehr Boogie / Der Cox Trott
Hans Bund's Piano Rhythmiker - Melodien in Dur und Moll,
Salon-Orchester - Die Schmiede im Walde / Souvenir
