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
Louis Armstrong- That's when J'll come back to you / Hotter than that
Zarah Leander - Die lustige Witwe
Stan Kenton - Artistry in rhythm / Artistry jumps
Rupert Glawitsch - Heimatlied / Wolgalied
Henry Allen - Rosetta / Dinah Lou
Hans Bund's Piano Rhythmiker - Melodien in Dur und Moll,
Horst Winter und das Wiener Tanzorchester - Bimbo / Rumba Tambah
Musikkorps der 3. (Preuß.) Nachrichten-Abteilung - Mohnblumen / Der Rose Hochzeitszug
Bix Beiderbecke - Second New Rhythm-Style Series No 129 / Second New Rhythm-Style Series No 130
Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra - Medley from "Snow white" and "Pinocchio" / St. Louis Blues
Will Glahe und sein Musette-Orchester - Weekend / Jede Stunde ohne dich
Peter Kreuder spielt Walter Kollo
The All Star Stompers - St. Louis Blues / Avalon
Johnny Doods Washboard Band - Weary City / Bull fiddle blues
Géza Komor Orch. - Herzen und Blumen / Blumenlied
Tanz-Orchester - Barcelona / Picador
Orchester der Städtischen Oper, Berlin - Romantischer Walzer / Espana
Louis Armstrong - You're a lucky guy / You're just a no account
Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble - Japanisches Kirschblütenfest / Japanischer Laternentanz
Barnabas von Geczy - Groteske / Optimist
Theo Reuter mit großem Tanzorchester - Senor und Senorita / So wie ein Lied im Winde verweht
Erk'scher Männergesangverein - Die Loreley / Mägdlein so schön und hold
Frederick Hippmann m. s. Künstler-Orchester - Phantastische Serenade / Eine kleine Melodie
Berliner Konzert-Verein - Ungarischer Marsch aus "Faust's Verdammung" / Walzer aus "Margarethe"
