[78-L] Berliner question

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RUSSELL BARNES" <r.barnes4 at btopenworld.com>
> Can someone please comment on the following :
> Have uncovered some seven inch Berliners :
> A few by Herr Iffs Orchestra - Who was Herr Iff please.
> Louis Bradfield singing The Nipper's Lullaby (15 October, 1900). Am I 
> correct in thinking this has no connection with Nipper the Dog because the 
> date is too early,
>
No!  Berliner bought the rights to the painting well before that date...but 
it wasn't used
in advertising until he decamped for Montreal around 1899, to escape legal 
battles
which wound up with his being enjoined from selling his own invention!

IF you can make it available as a "sound file," the lyrics should make it 
clear
whether or not the song is about a/the dog...?!

Steven C. Barr