The info with my CD of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" claims that after the last piano chord of "A Day in the Life" has finished comes "a few seconds of 15 kilocycle tone, put there especially to annoy your dog at the request of John Lennon." My dog didn't respond to it. Has it worked for anyone else, and is it on more recent versions?

sequoianoir

Could you hear it Gmack? Not sure why a 15 kilocycle (15kHz) tone should particularly annoy dogs. Humans with normal hearing should hear this unlike the "famous" inaudible (to humans) very high frequency "dog whistle". However there is more to it apparently. "Several seconds after the final tinkling of the piano becomes inaudible, the listener is attacked by a loud but brief 15 kilocycle tone - an example of just how advanced studio trickery had become. Put there at the request of Lennon, the tone is fundamentally a few seconds of chatter that had been taped, then torn up into several pieces and glued back together all whichway. The result - which specifically annoys dogs - was meant to bother purchasers of the album who didn’t have auto return on their record players. Instead of stopping at the end of the record, the few seconds of chatter would continue endlessly and confuse the hell out of the person listening as the record continues to spin." http://www.epinions.com/content_73711586948 Feb 23 04, 2:09 PM

sequoianoir

McCartney talking about Sgt Pepper Take, for example, the dog whistle - which humans can't hear - buried on the album's second side. "We're sitting around the studio, and one of the engineers starts talking about wavelengths, wave forms and stuff, kilohertz," McCartney recalls. "I still don't understand these things - I'm completely nontechnical. And as for John, he couldn't even change a plug - he really couldn't, you know. The engineers would be explaining to us what all this stuff was. An ultrasonic sound wave - 'a low one, you can kill people with the low ones.' We were all saying, 'Wow, man. Hey, wow.' 'And the high ones,' he said, 'only dogs can hear it.' We said, 'We gotta have it on! There's going to be one dog and his owner, and I'd just love to be there when his ears prick up.'" http://www.albumvote.co.uk/classic-albums/qz/sgt_peppers.htm Feb 23 04, 2:31 PM

sequoianoir

And the famous "Inner Groove" - the snippet of pointless conversation that sticks in the album's run-out groove and that was not included in the original American version of "Sgt. Pepper" - has an equally zany genesis. Around the time of "Sgt. Pepper's" release, McCartney explains, "a lot of record players didn't have auto-change. You would play an album and it would go, 'Tick, tick, tick,' in the run-out groove - it would just stay there endlessly. We were whacked out so much of the time in the Sixties - just quite harmlessly, as we thought, it was quite innocent - but you would be at friends' houses, twelve at night, and nobody would be going to get up to change that record player. So we'd be getting into the little 'tick, tick, tick,': 'It's quite good, you know? There's a rhythm there.' We were into Cage and Stockhausen, those kind of people. Obviously, once you allow yourself that kind of freedom . . . well, Cage is appreciating silence, isn't he? We were appreciating the run-out groove! We said, 'What if we put something, so that every time it did that, it said something?' So we put a little loop of conversation on." http://www.albumvote.co.uk/classic-albums/qz/sgt_peppers.htm Feb 23 04, 2:31 PM