Bond, Carrie Jacobs

Bond, Carrie Jacobs

▪ American composer
née  Carrie Minetta Jacobs  
born Aug. 11, 1862, Janesville, Wis., U.S.
died Dec. 28, 1946, Hollywood, Calif.
 composer-author of sentimental art songs that attained great popularity.

      Bond as a child learned to play the piano. During her second marriage she began to write songs, and in December 1894 two of them, “Is My Dolly Dead?” and “Mother's Cradle Song,” were published in Chicago. After her husband's death in 1895 Bond moved to Chicago, where she ran a boarding house, painted china, and continued to write songs, most of which remained for many years in manuscript. By giving recitals and concerts in private homes and in public she supplemented her meagre income and at the same time gradually built up a ready audience for her songs. In 1901, with the help of a loan, she published Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, which included two of her most popular songs, “I Love You Truly” and “Just a-Wearyin' for You.” The success of that venture allowed her to open The Bond Shop, where she sold sheet music, designed by herself and printed by the Carrie Jacobs Bond and Son company.

      An invitation to sing for President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House, a recital in England in which she appeared along with the young Enrico Caruso (Caruso, Enrico), and a series of three recitals in New York City in 1906–07 helped spread her reputation. She was already wealthy by 1910, when she published her most popular song, “(The End of) A Perfect Day.” It was the ultimate expression of the artlessly sentimental style in which she worked. By the early 1920s “A Perfect Day” had sold five million sheet music copies, along with uncounted recordings and piano rolls.

      From 1910 Bond lived in Hollywood. Of the more than 400 songs she wrote, some 170 were published. The rapid social changes of the World War I era dimmed the appeal of her musical style, however, and she was occasionally parodied. In 1927 she published The Roads of Melody, a memoir, and in 1940 The End of the Road, a collection of thoughts and verses.

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