Beatle Fans - Test Your Memory!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 11 Aug 2006 9:28 pm

Okay, no fair running to your record collection to do this. I want you to answer off the top of your head. And please don't post the answer after you've looked it up. I want to see how good our collective memory is. Here's the question:

Do you remember the dog on the cover of "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"? If so, describe it.

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Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 11 Aug 2006 9:56 pm

Wasn't it like that RCA dog? A white something-or-other - with a black patch on one eye? Or am I thinking of someone else's dog altogether?

RR

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 11 Aug 2006 9:57 pm

...and it's not in my collection anyway - I don't like the Beatles!

Dave Brophy · Post by **Dave Brophy** » 11 Aug 2006 9:59 pm

I seem to recall Nipper,the little fella from the RCA logo pictured staring at the phonograph horn.
It could be false memory syndrome,however.

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 11 Aug 2006 10:55 pm

But does anybody know what Nipper and the Victrola are sitting on, what the phrase is,
and it's meaning?

You'd probably have to remember the original decal to get it.[This message was edited by Ron Whitfield on 11 August 2006 at 11:56 PM.]

erik · Post by **erik** » 11 Aug 2006 11:35 pm

click here
sorry for giving it away.

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Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 12 Aug 2006 2:42 am

"His master's voice."

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 12 Aug 2006 6:57 am

Seems like the RCA dog rings a bell...now I'm gonna go look.

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Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 12 Aug 2006 7:56 am

I have a copy of one of the earliest RCA Ads on my studio wall, and most musicians are fascinbated to find out Nipper is sitting on "his Master's coffin" as he's listening.
It seems morbid today, (well, not to the goth-rockers), but that ad campaign was formulated toward the end of the death-cult mentality that flourished in the late 1800's, when people kept photos of dead relatives, locks of hair, graveside boquets, etc. on display for years. Nipper fit right in, like most good advertising.

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 12 Aug 2006 10:19 am

Erik - That dog is just tutu ugly!!

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 12 Aug 2006 10:26 am

They say that if you remember the 60's, you weren't there.

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 12 Aug 2006 2:15 pm

I looked...

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Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 12 Aug 2006 3:21 pm

I remember lot's of people, but no dogs.

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 12 Aug 2006 3:43 pm

There is no dog.

Rick Garrett · Post by **Rick Garrett** » 13 Aug 2006 2:40 am

Was it Yoko?

Rick

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 13 Aug 2006 5:03 am

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Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 13 Aug 2006 5:18 am

It wasn't my dog. I swear.

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Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 13 Aug 2006 12:13 pm

Mike, is that a PIT BULL?

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 13 Aug 2006 2:12 pm

It sure is Rick. And you'll never find a sweeter, more loving and affectionate dog anywhere.

Pits are so strong that when you get a bad one, one that's been neglected or abused or trained to fight, you'e got a really dangerous animal.

But Petey has nover known anything but love and affection and positive reinforcement, and his personality developed accordingly. He's a 78 pound love muffin.

Be that as it may, it's not him on the Sgt Pepper cover.

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erik · Post by **erik** » 13 Aug 2006 6:16 pm

Going off-topic...... some of us have forgotten the dog bite incident...

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David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 14 Aug 2006 2:24 am

I didn't peek.
Looked like Petey from Little Rascals.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 14 Aug 2006 4:40 am

In 1959 my dad & mom bought, for Christmas, for my brother and me, a small RCA-Victor record player. Inside the lid was the picture of Nipper looking into the cone of a Victrola, and the caption read "His Master's Voice".

The very first record we ever had for that little record player was "El Paso". We played that record over & over...

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 14 Aug 2006 9:25 am

Okay, b0b. Time to tell us about the dog.

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 14 Aug 2006 9:37 am

yeah b0b. Is there a dog or not?

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 14 Aug 2006 9:25 pm

Most people can remember the dog, but they get confused when you ask them to describe it. I think it was like the Little Rascals' dog with the ring around its eye, but it was posed like Nipper, the RCA dog. Hence the confusion.

No fair peeking! What do YOU remember?

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