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The Song That Introduced Illicit Sex Into American Pop Music – In 1909

MUSIC Posted: June 12, 2014 12:26 am

“It was a succès de scandale, which brought roars from vaudeville audiences and censure from social reformers, with all sides agreeing that ‘I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife – But Oh! You Kid!’ had captured the zeitgeist … It incited countless newspaper editorials, fulminating sermons by preachers, and at least one fatal shooting.”

MUSIC Published: 06.02.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 06.02.14

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