About
Born in Wisconsin, Carrie Jacobs-Bond composed at a young age, and her only formal training came from with local teachers. At 18, she married E. J. Smith, and after their son was born, the two separated. She remarried to Frank Lewis Bond in 1889. Her first song was published in 1894, the same year that her husband died, and soon afterwards, she moved to Chicago and began her own publishing company, Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, due to frustration with established publishing companies.
In order to have her songs heard, Jacobs-Bond played and sang them herself, and baritone David Bispham sang an entire recital of her songs in Chicago in 1901. Of her 175 published songs, two became very popular: I Love You Truly (1901) and Perfect Day (1910). The publishing business continued throughout her lifetime, and after moving the company eight times, it finally settled in Hollywood. In 1927, Jacobs-Bond published her autobiography, The Roads of Melody, but stopped composing after her son’s suicide in 1928.
–Christie Finn
Source: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Related Information
Songs
A Good Exercise
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
A Perfect Day
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
A Present from Yourself
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Answer the First Rap
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Doan' Yo' Lis'n
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
First Ask Yourself
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Half-Minute Songs
Song CollectionCarrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Her Greatest Charm
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
How to Find Success
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
I Love You Truly
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Just a-Wearyin' For You
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Frank Lebby Stanton
Keep Awake
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Making the Best of It
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Nothin' But Love
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
George N. Alsop
Now and Then
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
The Pleasure of Giving
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
To Understand
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
When They Say the Unkind Things
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Videos
Recordings

Paul Robeson - The Complete EMI Sessions
(Charles Wakefield Cadman, Henry T. Burleigh, Benjamin Carr, Will Marion Cook, Stephen Foster, Langston Hughes, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Ethelbert Nevin, Oscar Rasbach and Oley Speaks)
1938

Rosa Ponselle On the Air, Vol. 1
(Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Ethelbert Nevin and Charles Gilbert Spross)
2000

Moonlight Bay
(William Bolcom, Oley Speaks, George M. Cohan, Paul Dresser, Victor Herbert and Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
1999

Songs of America
(William Bolcom, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Stephen Foster, Charles Ives, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Sergius Kagen, Theodore Roethke, Ned Rorem, Carl Sandburg, William Jay Smith and Gertrude Stein)
1988
Books
Sheet Music
"A Perfect Day" (High Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"A Perfect Day" (Low Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal ReprintsFirst Solos: Songs by Women Composers, Volume I: High Voice
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song(s): Her Greatest Charm
Buy via the Hildegard Publishing CompanyHalf-Minute Songs
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song(s): 1. Making the Best of It
2. First Ask Yourself
3. To Understand
4. How to Find Success
5. The Pleasure of Giving
6. Answer the First Rap
7. A Good Exercise
8. A Present from Yourself
9. Now and Then
10. When They Say the Unkind Things
11. Keep Awake
12. Doan' Yo' Lis'n
"Nothin' But Love" (High Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: High
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints"Nothin' But Love" (Low Key)
Composer(s): Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Voice Type: Low
Buy via Classical Vocal Reprints