As a result, she was one of very few women in the industry and perhaps the only one to own every word of every song she wrote. Because Jacobs-Bond's attempts to have her music published were repeatedly turned down by the male-dominated music industry of the day, she resorted to establishing her own sheet music publishing company in 1896. Her lyrics and music exemplified extreme sentimentality, which was intensely popular at that time. Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple and lyrical music. Selling ceramics, renting out a room, and writing songs did not produce enough money to pay her bills, so she slowly sold off her furniture and ate only once per day.Īfter achieving some success with her composing, she and her son moved to Chicago to be closer to music publishers. His wife was left with debts too large to be absorbed by the $4,000 in proceeds of his life insurance, and returned to Janesville. Bond fell on the ice, and died five days later from crushed ribs. When the economy of the iron mining area collapsed, the family doctor had no money. They lived in Iron River, Michigan, where she was a homemaker and supplemented the family income with painted ceramics, piano lessons, and her musical compositions. Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin, in 1888. Her second marriage was to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. During her short-lived first marriage to Edward Smith, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born. Her father died while she was a child, and the family faced financial difficulties without him. A distant cousin of "Home Sweet Home" (also a parlor song) lyricist John Howard Payne, she was born in the house of her maternal grandparents at the corner of Pleasant Street (now Court Street) and Oakhill Avenue. Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Emma Davis Jacobs. Jacobs-Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Ĭarrie Minetta Jacobs was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to Dr. A 2009 August 29 NPR documentary on Jacobs-Bond emphasized "I Love You Truly" together with "Just Awearyin' for You" and "A Perfect Day" as her three great hits. Jacobs-Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day" in 1910. An enduring favorite as a wedding song, it first appeared in her 1901 collection Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, along with "Just Awearyin' for You", which was also widely recorded. She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song "I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song. Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (Aug– December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |