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Carrie Jacobs-Bond's Most Popular Song Still Close to Hearts.
In 1901 Jacobs-Bond wrote and composed the endearing parlor song "I Love You Truly". After a century, the song remains an all-time favorite.
This endearing song "I Love You Truly" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond is always one of my favorite parlour songs to this day. While revisiting a box of piano sheets, one that got my attention was this piece along with "Oh Promise me" (lyrics by Clement Scott) and "A Perfect Day," also by her. Sentiments drifted to after-dinner family singing together around that old upright piano, and many more memories. Those teenage years, I simply doted on singing and never bothered about the song writer who shared her heart for a lifetime, at least not until later years when passion for music and composers especially classical music intensely grew.
The songwriter of this lovely song is Carrie Jacobs-Bond, an American songwriter and singer born 145 years ago on August 11, 1862 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Her family (parents were Dr. Hannibal Jacobs and Emma Davis Jacobs) had financial difficulties when her father died while she was still a child. She also started studying the piano with local teachers and began writing music in the late 1880s.
Bing Crosby singing Carrie Jacobs-Bond's endearing song "I Love You Truly". (YouTube, uploaded by 'A Trip Down Memory Lane'. Accessed August 11, 2023.)
Jacobs-Bond composed many popular music pieces from 1890s to early 1940s. She was a distant cousin of John Howard Payne, writer of another extremely popular song "Home Sweet Home."
At 18, Carrie Jacobs-Bond was first married to E.J. Smith but the couple separated after seven years. They had a son Frederic. Later in 1887, at 25, she remarried to her childhood sweetheart Dr. Frank Lewis Bond. The family moved to Iron River, Michigan. After seven years, her husband died of injuries from a fall. She moved to Chicago, Illinois the following year. Slowly, she started drawing audience after singing her own songs by providing
recitals in local homes.
Inspired by her new following, in 1901, she published her first collection, Seven Songs: as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose which included two of the most enduring songs, "I Love You Truly" and "Just a-Wearyin' for You."
From the success of her first collection, she founded her own music publishing company The Bond Shop which she opened with her son Frederic in Illinois Chicago. She published another collection of her songs called Songs Everybody Sings and a memoir called The Roads to Melody. In 1910, she created her other most popular song of all, "A Perfect Day."
Carrie Jacobs-Bond suffered from rheumatism. In 1920, hoping to find a suitable climate for her pains, she moved to California. On December 28, 1946, she died from heart attack at the age of 84 in Glendale, California.
A website with a lot of superb information about Carrie Jacobs-Bond is at parlor songs.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond was the most successful songwriter-composer of her day. "I Love You Truly" remains popular, the song and the writer-composer endeared for all time.
Image Credit:
Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain. Accessed August 11, 2023.
Resources:
Carrie Jacobs-Bond. en.wikipedia.org
Parlor Songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Parlorsongs.com/bios/cjb. Accessed August 11, 2008.
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