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.
Mimi Thomas - Büble, mein Büble / Flattern zum Abschied die Fahnen
Zarah Leander - Die lustige Witwe
Fred Bird - Wir flüstern
Josette Martin - Quand le Printemps vient / Lorsque je vous dis Bonsoir
Will Glahé Orchester - Gelsomina / La Pansé
Billy Penrose - The 1946 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 45 / The 1946 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 46
Paul Knüpfer & Waldemar Henke mit Chor - Banditen-Duette aus "Alessandro Stradella" und "Fra Diavolo"
Margherita Perras / Ursula van Diemen - Ave Maria / Laudate Dominum
Barnabas von Geczy Orch. - Hullamzo Balaton
Doris Day & The Norman Luboff Choir - Just One Girl / Be My Little Baby Bumblebee
Paul Godwin und sein Künstler-Ensemble - O Frühling, wie bist du so schön / Mohnblumen
Willi Stanke mit seinem Orchester - Schwarzer Panther / Gib mir einen Kuß durch's Telefon
Louis Armstrong - He's a son of the south / There's a cabin in the pines
Regal Military Band - The marriage market / The Girl from Utah
Joe Loss und sein Orchester - I'd 've baked a cake / Happy times
H. Schlusnus - Heimliche Aufforderung / Heimweh
Harry James and his orchestra - Concerto for Trumpet / Trumpet Blues and Cantabile
Gerhard Winkler - Mein Hawaii / Tropennächte
De Groot and his Orchestra - Bitter Sweet / Sleepy Valley
Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester - Das deutsche Lied
Lajos Kiss mit Serenaden Orchester - Rendez-vous / Sérenade d'amour
Artiphon Orchester - Das ist der Frühling von Berlin / Mein Schatz ist bei der grünen Polizei
Wilhelm Schirp - O Isis und Osiris ("Die Zauberflöte") / In diesen heil'gen Hallen ("Die Zauberflöte")
Bruno Henriksen's Orchestra - Since I kissed my Baby Good-bye / Marcheta
