Feist, Leo

Leo Feist Music publisher Leopold Feist, 1869; 1930, full dates unknown). A sales manager for a corset company, Feist liked to write songs, and he convinced Edward B. Marks to publish a couple of them. When sales did not live up to expectations, Feist decided to give up songwriting, but he liked the business so much that he joined with Joe Frankenthaler to publish other, more successful, songwriters. Among the first songs Feist and Frankenthaler issued were two in 1897 by the prolific Harry Von…