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.
Yvonne Blanc - a) Gipsy b) I'll close my eyes / Cow, cow Boogie
Nelson Eddy - The Mounties / Rose-Marie
Cora Vaucaire - Retour a Montmartre / Complainte de la Butte
Fredo Gardoni - Un Petit Mot D'amour / J'ai Connu L'amour Un Soir
Syd Dean and his Band - Till we two are one / The happy wanderer
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra - Concerto to End All Concertos
Bert und Bärbel - In den Bergen wohnt das Glück / Wenn die Heckenrosen blüh'n
Mac Gony et son Orch. - Chant d'orient / Tes yeux que j'adore
Concertina Solo by Alexander Prince - Estudiantina Waltz / Il Bacio
Michael Hofer - Stern von Rio / Ein Tag mit dir und der Liebe
K. u. K. Infanterie-Regiment Erzherzog Karl Stefan No. 8 - Aufziehen und Ablösen der Burgwache(einseitig Bespielt)
Peter Kreuder - Blaue Tropennacht / Riding Up And Down
Ernani - Evviva, beviam / Finale III - Oh Sommo Carlo
Ferdy Kauffman - Spanischer Tanz No. 1 und 2
Kitty Kallen / Four Aces - Little Things Mean A Lot / Three Coins in The Fountain
Benny de Weille - Bravo, beinah wie Caruso / Ja, wenn der Condoliere
Heinrich Schlusnus - Ständchen / Heimkehr
Scala-Orchester; Oscar Mayrhauser - Kirschblüte / Roter Mohn
Eddie Condon's Dixielanders - Joe's Blues / Tiger Rag
The Dream Weavers - It´s Almost Tommorrow / You`ve Got Me Wondering
Svend Asmussen - Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell / Oh Baby Mine
