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.
Louis Armstrong- That's when J'll come back to you / Hotter than that
Red Ingle - Let Me In / Chew Tobacco Rag
Mimi Thomas - Büble, mein Büble / Flattern zum Abschied die Fahnen
Berliner Sängerverein Cäcilia Melodia - Groß sind die Wogen / Vespergesang
Jack Hylton und sein Orchester - Ich such' mir ein Mädel / Barbara
Mantovani und sein Orchester - Edelma / The Deserted Ballroom
Mogens Wieth - Den bla Anemone / Skuld gammel Venskab rejn Forgo
Barnabas von Geczy mit seinem Orchester - Spanischer Marsch / Tango
The All Star Stompers - St. Louis Blues / Avalon
Willi Stanke mit seinem Orchester - Großvaters Uhr / Es war einmal eine Liebe
Pee Wee Hunt - Oh! / San
Earl Hines - Just too soon / Chicago high life
Perry Como - Look out the window / Wanted
Wilhelm Strienz - Heimweh nach Virginia / Träume nur
Carl Nebe - Gebet aus Lohengrin
Otto Dobrindt mit seinem großen Künstler-Orchester - Der Struwwelpeter / Aus der Spielzeugschachtel
Orchester des Deutschen Opernhauses, Berlin: Walter Lutze - Der Bajazzo
Philadelphia Orchester - Polowetzer Tänze aus "Fürst Igor"
Margot Friedlaender - Was kann der Mond dafür? / Der Weg zu dir zurück!
Louis Armstrong - Second new Rhythm Style Series, No. 21 / Second new Rhythm Style Series, No.22
Dajos Béla - Die Mädels von Java / La Java-Javi-Java
Georg Freundorfer - Ein Sommertag in Reichenhall / Gruß an Obersalzberg
Steve Lawrence - The Lord is a busy man / Adelaide
Johnny Desmond - The High and the Mighty / Got No Time
Sidney Bechet and his Feetwarmers - Ooh Boogie / After You've gone
Rosemary Clooney - Half as Much / Botch-a-me
