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shower congratulations on his head for being
the innocent cause of importing this melody for
American consumption.
How Joseph Kaufmann Was Responsible for
Later on, too, when this French sensation has
Introducing the Great Parisian Hit Into
become by right of conquest the property of the
America—A Song That Meant a Sleepless
whistling urchin, when it is played by all the
Night for Leo Feist, Who Secured the Ameri-
phonographs, murdered by all the street organs,
can Rights While Abroad.
and included in the repertoire of the gentleman
Sooner or later—rather sooner we imagine— who stops you on the street and confidentially in-
when the entire country is merrily humming quires as to whether you have "Any ol' Clo" "
"Ah Si Vous Voulez. d'L' Amour," or as it has then it is quite likely that Mr. Kaufmann will
be sought out and made to apologize to the com-
munity at large for the offense of introducing
a too popular song.
All of which leads up to an interesting story
which is going the rounds as to how Mr. Kauf-
mann was responsible for the introduction of
Vincent Scotto's chansonette into America. It
appears that Leo Feist, the genial music pub-
lisher, fell in with the advertising expert while
making a tour of Europe last year, and after
"doing" the principal cities together they at
length found themselves in that Mecca of all
tourists—Paris.
The very first place of amusement on which
they descended was the Taberin, at which, as
usual, a ball was in progress. After spending
two or three hours there they rode back to their
hotel more or less tired, and as willing to go to
sleep as anyone ever is, during a visit to Paris.
Daylight was beginning to show itself over the
Place de la Concorde when Mr. Feist was awak-
ened by hearing an unearthly voice in the next
room groaning something which sounded like
"La-La-La, La, La, La." Rushing into his friend's
room what was his surprise to find Mr. Kauf-
mann walking up and down smoking a heavy
black cigar, and singing at intervals. Let it
be said right now that Mr. Kaufmann was never
previously known to sing in his life, and it is
Mr. Feist's earnest hope that he will never be
known to sing again.
been rechristened for American use, "If You
But to continue the story: Mr. Feist demanded
Alone Were Mine," we will turn to Joseph Kauf-
mann, the well known advertising expert and in no mild tones why he had been awakened.
Perfectly unperturbed his companion answered:
"AH SI VOUS VOULEZ D' L'AMOUR."
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"You know that hanged melody we heard over
at the Taberin, it's the first I ever remembered
in my life. Ever since you got to bed I have been
trying to shake it out of my head, but I can't."
It is a matter of record that Mr. Feist slept
precious little more during the night. Arising
betimes he sought out the name of the song
which had made such an impression on his friend
and very quickly discovered the fact that it was
the tremendous Parisian hit, "Ah Si Vous d' L'
Amour." A visit to its publisher Digoude Dio-
det and a subsequent interview with Scotto, the
composer, resulted in Mr. Feist's securing not
only this Parisian success, but also all of Mr.
Scotto's future compositions for a number of years.
At the top of the first page of the American-
ized version of the song will be found the lines
"Dedicated to Joseph Kaufmann." Heaven knows
he deserves the dedication, for according to Leo
Feist any melody that would remain in his brain
is an assured success. Indeed, Mr. Feist has pub-
lished an instrumental edition of Scotto's great
success, which he has named "La-La-La" prim-
arily because these words were the only ones
that Mr. Kaufmann could remember.
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