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.
Johnny Dodds' Dixieland Jug Blowers - Hen Party Blues / Boodle am Shake
Michael Jary mit seinem Kammer-Tanzorchester - An mein Herz! / Ich möchte so sein, wie du mich willst
The Dixie Four - Kentucky Stomp / St. Louis Man
Parlophon-Streich-Orchester - Bleisoldaten / Leuchtkäferchens Stelldichein
Bavaria-Sinfonie-Orchester - Huldigungsmarsch / Hochzeitstag auf Troldhaugen
Heinz Huppertz, Violin-Solo, Marcel Palotti a. d. Odeon-Orgel - Berceuse de Jocelyn / Unter dem Lindenbaum
Marcel Wittrisch - Der Tenor und seine Lieder Teil I und II
Gesang mit Orchester - Die Augen einer schönen Frau / Wenn man ein Mädchen küßt
Will Bradley and his Boogie Woogie Boys - Lightning Boogie / Sugar Hill Boogie Woogie
Jelly-Roll Morton Trio - Mr. Jelly Lord / Wolverine Blues
Instrumental-Terzett Freundorfer - Unser schönes Oberland / Schwantalerhöher Ländler
Die kleine Cornelia - Cornelias Matrosenlied / Großmama erzähl' uns ein Märchen
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence - Besame mucho / Take a deep breath
Gale Storm - I Hear You Knocking / Never Leave Me
Heinz Huppertz mit seinem Orchester - Poesie-Tango / Blauer Himmel
Louis Armstrong - Savoy Blues / Me and Brother Bill
Barnabas von Geczy - Cubanischer Tanz / Roter Teufel
Saxophon-Orchester Dobbri - Geh so leih mir doch dein Mündchen / Es sagen die Rosen
Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble - Japanisches Kirschblütenfest / Japanischer Laternentanz
Ferko String Band - Happy Days are here again / Deep in the heart of Texas
Jack Hylton und sein Orchester - und lässt du mich allein / Alle, alle lieben dich
Otto Dobrindt mit seinem großen Künstler-Orchester - Teufelstanz / Intermezzo
