the brothers composed multiple songs, but only the title song and "scales and arpeggios" were included in the film. desiring to capture the essence of france, the sherman brothers composed the song "the aristocats". disney film producer bill anderson would ask maurice chevalier to participate in the film. following the suggestion, richard sherman imitated chevalier's voice as he performed a demo for the song. chevalier received the demo and was brought out of retirement to sing the song. deleted songs that were intended for the film included "pourquoi?" sung by hermione baddeley as madame bonfamille, its reprise, and "she never felt alone" sung by robie lester as marie. for the show-stopping number, the sherman brothers composed "le jazz hot", but "ev'rybody wants to be a cat", composed by floyd huddleston and al rinker, was used instead. lastly, a villainous song was envisioned to be sung by edgar and his assistant elmira as a romantic duet, but the song was dropped when elmira was removed from the story.