Online Discography

Singola

Schallplatten-Postkarten

Singola Schallplatten-Postkarten

Please note: This is a discographical catalog - items are NOT available for sale from us

Acknowledgements:
Lyle Boehland, Herbert Gruy, Jos Hocks, Franz Lechleitner

Introductory notes:
The basic idea of a gramophone postcard is to glue a single sided miniature disc record onto a postcard and punch a center hole through both card and disc. For further details see the exploratory history of the phono postcard

Singola:
This company had their business address at Kaiserin Augusta Allee 3, Berlin W.87. They were best known for single-sided 20 cm diameter discs made of coated cardboard. The reverse side had room for photographs and other pertinent printed The discs used Clausophon and/or Pallas masters. Singola probably had an agreement with the Durium Products Corporation NY, to use their formula for the records (a trade-mark for „Durium“ was applied for in November 1930, and granted in January 1931).

Singola Schallplatten-Postkarten:
As a sideline Singola also produced phono postcards. Like their English competitors Tuck they glued brownish or black plastic discs onto illustrated postcards, thereby unfortunately obscuring the images; but unlike Tuck's the pictures on Singola cards sometimes related to the titles. The mini-discs mostly have a -B suffix and may have been produced by Bachaphon. There are no catalog, order or series numbers. Details on titles are sometimes printed on the reverse side Singola marketed the postcards on their own behalf, but also supplied customers such as F. Marxen.

F. Marxen
F. Marxen operated a publishing house at the city of Mainz, located on the banks of the river Rhine. In order to cater for the tourist trade Marxen printed a set of five postcards of their own design, all showing local views. From the Berlin based Singola copany they ordered the dark brown, opaque miniature gramophone discs which were pasted on top of the cards. All five cards feature Rhine- and drinking-songs performed by one Willy Barth with piano accompaniment. There are no catalog, order or series numbers.

Label listing:
Singola Schallplatten Postkarten

001	002	003	004	005	006	007	008	009	010	011	012	013	014	015	016	017	018	019	020
021	022	023	024	025	026	027	028	029	030	031	032	033	034	035	036	037	038	039	040
041	042	043	044	045	046	047	048	049	050	051	052	053	054	055	056	057	058	059	060 060B
061	062	063	064	065	066	067	068	069	070	071	072	073	074	075	076	077	078	079	080
081	082	083	084	085	086	087	088	089	090	091	092	093	094	095	096	097	098	099	100
101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120
121	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140
141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151	152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159	160
161	162	163	164	165	166	167	168	169	170	171	172	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	189
				805			168r												160a

It is not presently possible to determine the total number of cards produced, and information on matrix numbers etc can only be derived from physical autopsy of the artifacts. If you have additions or corrections: Please contact us by e-mail: Rainer E. Lotz

Updated: 2011-10-25

Contact:
Rainer E. Lotz
Rotdornweg 81
53177 Bonn, Germany

Phone(International): +49-228-352808 / Phone(National): 0228-352808
Fax (International): +49-228-365142 / Fax (National): 0228-365142
E-Mail: Rainer E. Lotz