Carrie Jacobs-Bond

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Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer and songwriter who composed many pieces of popular sheet music during from the 1890s through the early 1940s.

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[edit] Personal life

She was born Carrie Minetta Jacobs in Janesville, Wisconsin to Dr. Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Emma Davis Jacobs. Her father died while she was a child, and the family faced financial difficulties without him.

In 1880, at the age of 18, she married E. J. Smith. The couple eventually separated, and the marriage ended in divorce, but not before they had a son, Frederic Jacobs Smith. In 1887 she married Dr. Frank Lewis Bond, her childhood sweetheart. The family moved to Iron River, Michigan where Dr. Bond died of injuries from a fall in 1894. Jacobs-Bond moved to Chicago the next year to seek a new life.

In 1920, Jacobs-Bond moved to California, hoping to find a climate which would ease the pains of her rheumatism. Bond died in her Hollywood, California home of a heart attack. She is buried in the "Court of Honor" at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

[edit] Music career

Jacobs-Bond had studied the piano with area teachers while a child, and began writing music in the late 1880s when encouraged by her husband to "put down on paper some of the songs that were continually running through my mind."[1]

After moving to Chicago, Jacobs-Bond slowly drew a following after singing her songs in small recitals in local homes. She published her first collection, Seven Songs: as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose in 1901 which included two of her most enduring songs, "I Love You Truly" and "Just a-Wearyin' for You." The success of this song book allowed her to create her own publishing company, known as the Bond Shop, which she opened with her son, Frederic.

Within a few years time, Jacobs-Bond performed for Theodore Roosevelt, gave a recital in England (with Enrico Caruso) and a series of recitals in New York City.

In 1910 she published her most popular song of all, "A Perfect Day." More than five million copies of the sheet music for this piece were published.

Jacobs-Bond was the most successful woman composer of her day, by some reports earning more than one million dollars in royalties from her music.[2]

[edit] Published works

[edit] Sheet music

  • Almost Impossible
  • The Angelus
  • At Morning, Noon and Night
  • A Bad Dream
  • Because I Am Your Friend
  • Because of the Light
  • Betty's Music Box.
  • The Bird Song
  • Birds
  • The Blue Flag
  • But I Have You
  • California
  • Chimney Swallows
  • Come, Mr. Dream-maker, 1897
  • Compensation
  • Consolation
  • A Cottage In God's Garden
  • The Crimson-Breasted Bird
  • Cupid's Home
  • The Dark Lament
  • The Dear Auf Wiedersehn
  • De Las' Long Res', 1901
  • Des Hold My Hands Tonight, 1901
  • Do You Remember, 1915
  • The Elopment
  • The End of a Perfect Day
  • Evening, My Love and You.
  • First Ask Yourself
  • The Flying Flag
  • The Forget Me Not
  • The Free Concert
  • The Gate of Tears
  • God Remembers When the World Forgets, 1913
  • Going to Church with Mother
  • The Golden Key
  • The Good Folk
  • Good Night
  • Got to Practice, 1917
  • The Hand of You.
  • Happy Lil Sal
  • Have You Seen My Kitty?
  • His Buttons Are Marked 'U.S.', 1902
  • His Lullaby
  • Hollyhocks
  • Homeland
  • A Hundred Years from Now, 1914
  • Hush-a-by
  • I Love You Truly, 1901 & 1906
  • I was Dreaming... Maybe
  • If I Could Hear Your Voice Again
  • I'm the Captain of the Broom Stick Cavalry, 1890
  • In a Foreign Land
  • In Dear Hawaii, 1908
  • In My Garden
  • In the Meadow, 1925
  • Is My Molly Dead?, 1895
  • Is Yo'? Yo' Is, 1905
  • I've Done My Work, 1920
  • Jesus Is Calling
  • June and December
  • Just A-Wearyin' For You, 1901
  • Just by Laughing
  • Just Lonesome
  • Keep Awake
  • Know and Find
  • Lazy River
  • Life's Garden.
  • The Lily and the Rose
  • Linger Not
  • A Little Bit O'Honey, 1917
  • The Little House
  • Little Lost Youth of Me.
  • A Little Pink Rose, 1912
  • A Little Shoe
  • Lively Hour
  • Long Time Ago
  • Longing
  • Look Up
  • Love and Sorrow
  • Lovely Hour
  • Love's Sacred Trust
  • The Lure
  • May I Print a Kiss?
  • Memories of Versailles Waltz
  • A Memory
  • Men and Women
  • Morning and Evening
  • Mother Mine
  • Mother's Cradle Song, 1895
  • Mother's Three Ages of Man
  • Movin' in de Bes' Soci'ty.
  • My Dear
  • My Garden of Memory
  • My Son!
  • My Soul
  • The Naughty Little Girl
  • Nothin' but Love!
  • Nothing but a Wild Rose
  • Now and Then
  • O Haunting Memory.
  • O Time Take Me Back, 1916
  • Old Friends of Mine
  • Out in the Fields
  • Over Hills and Fields of Daisies
  • The Pansy and the Forget-Me-Not
  • Parting, 1901
  • A Perfect Day, 1910
  • Play Make Believe
  • Please
  • Remember to Forget
  • Robin Adair
  • Roses Are In Bloom
  • The Sandman, 1912
  • Shadows, 1901
  • A Sleepy Song
  • Smile a Little
  • Someone I Love is Coming
  • A Song of the Hills
  • The Soul of You
  • Still Unexprest', 1901
  • Stop and Sing
  • A Study in Symbols
  • Sunshine (Po Li'l Lamb)
  • Ten Thousand Time
  • There Is a Way
  • Through the Mists
  • Through the Years, 1918
  • Time Make All but Love the Past
  • Tis Summer in Thine Eyes
  • To-Day.
  • To My Valentine, 1926
  • To the Savior Called
  • To the Victor (March)
  • To Understand
  • Trouble
  • Two Lovers
  • Tzigani Dances
  • Until Death
  • Until God's Day
  • A Vision
  • Walking in Her Garden
  • Waltz of the Wild Flowers
  • The Way of the World
  • We Are All Americans, 1918
  • Were I
  • When Church is Out
  • When do I Want You Most?
  • When God Puts Out the Light
  • When I am Dead, My Dearest
  • When I Bid the World Goodnight
  • When My Ships Come to Me
  • When You're Sad
  • When Youth's Eternal
  • Who is True?
  • Why
  • Write to Me Often, Dear, 1896
  • Your Song

[edit] Song books

  • Eleven Songs, 1897
    • Mother's Cradle Song
    • Write to Me Often, Dear
    • Come, Mr. Dream-Maker
    • The Pansy and the Forget Me Not
    • Who is True
    • June and December
    • Someone I Love Is Coming
    • Through the Mists
    • Until Death
  • Four Songs, 1899
    • A Little Shoe
    • Have You Seen My Kitty?
    • The Bird Song
    • When My Ships Come Home
  • Seven Songs: as unpretentious as the **Wild Rose, 1901
    • De Las' Long Res'
    • Des Hold My Hands Tonight
    • I Love You Truly
    • Just A-wearying for You
    • Parting
    • Still Unexpresst
  • Two Songs, 1902
    1. May I Print a Kiss
    2. Two Lovers
  • Twelve Songs, 1902
    • A Bad Dream
    • I Was Dreaming... Maybe
    • Linger Not
    • Love's Sacred Trust
    • Mother's Three Ages of Man
    • Over Hills and Fields of Daisies
    • The Dear Auf Wiedersehn
    • Time Make All But Love the Past
    • When I Am Dead, My Dearest
    • When I Bid the World Goodnight
  • Three Songs, 1904
    • Nothing But a Wild Rose
    • The Angelus
    • Walking in Her Garden
  • Ten Songs, 1905
    • In a Foreign Land
    • Just By Laughing
    • Men and Women
    • My Dearest Dear
    • When Do I Want You Most?
    • Where to Build Your Castles
  • Two Songs, 1907
    1. Happy Lil Sal
    2. Trouble
  • Half Minute Songs or Miniature Songs, 1910
    1. Making the Best of It
    2. First Ask Yourself
    3. To Understand
    4. Doan' Yo' Lis'n
    5. How to Find Success
    6. The Pleasure of Giving
    7. Answer the First Rap
    8. A Good Exercise
    9. A Present From Yourself
    10. Now and Then
    11. When They Say the Unkind Things
    12. Keep Awake
  • The Smile Songs, 1910
    • Know and Find
    • Look Up
    • Mother Mine
    • Please
    • Robin Adair
    • Smile a Little
    • Stop and Sing
    • The Good Folk
    • The Way of the World
    • There Is a Way
    • Why
    • Almost Impossible
  • Little Kitchen Songs and Stories, 1911
  • Thirty Songs: Songs Everybody Sings, about 1927

[edit] Autobiography

Jacobs-Bond, Carrie. The Roads of Melody, 1927. (ISBN 0-405-12825-8)

[edit] Poetry

The End of the Road

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[edit] External links

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