Carrie Jacobs-Bond
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Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 – 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.
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. 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. Jacobs-Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day
" in 1910. 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 was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 1970.
, to Dr. Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Emma Davis Jacobs. 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.
Her father died while she was a child, and the family faced financial difficulties without him. During her short-lived first marriage to Edward Smith, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born. This marriage ended in divorce in 1887. Her second marriage was to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin
, in 1888. 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. When the economy of the iron mining area collapsed, the family doctor had no money. Struck by a child's snowball, Dr. Bond fell on the ice, and died five days later from crushed ribs. 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. 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.
After achieving some success with her composing, she and her son moved to Chicago
to be closer to music publishers. Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple and lyrical music. Her lyrics and music exemplified extreme sentimentality, which was intensely popular at that time. 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. 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. To ease the pains of her rheumatism
, in the early 1920s she and her son moved to Hollywood, California, where she continued performing and publishing. Jacobs-Bond died in her Hollywood home of a heart attack. She is buried in the "Court of Honor" at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond also published books of children's poetry and an autobiography and drew the artwork for her sheet music covers. The wild rose, her trademark artwork, appears on many of her publications. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover
wrote in her epitaph: "Beloved composer of 'I Love You Truly' . . . and a hundred other heart songs that express the loves and longings, sadness and gladness of all people everywhere . . . who met widowhood, conquered hardship, and achieved fame by composing and singing her simple romantic melodies. She was America’s gallant lady of song." The Los Angeles City Council honored her as "one of America’s greatest women."
".
A young female singer who lived across the hall from Jacobs-Bond had to leave unexpectedly, so she asked Jacobs-Bond to entertain her manager and another man. When the two men arrived, Jacobs-Bond invited the men into her apartment. The manager, Victor P. Sincere, saw some of her manuscripts lying around and asked whether she had written them. After Jacobs-Bond said yes, Sincere asked her to perform a song;, so she played "I Love You Truly" for him. When he asked whether she would like to have the song performed in public, she answered "no" because she had not copyright
ed the song, and someone could steal it. Jacobs-Bond had second thoughts, so she went to the telephone at the corner drugstore
and called opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis
, even though they had never met. Jacobs-Bond hoped that Davis would make the song as popular as she had "Oh Promise Me" (by Reginald De Koven
and Clement Scott
) in 1898. Davis volunteered to pay the cost to publish Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose.
After moving to Chicago, Jacobs-Bond slowly gathered a following by singing in small recitals in local homes. She published her first collection with the help of opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis. Seven Songs: as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, which was released in 1901, included two of her most enduring songs—"I Love You Truly" and "Just Awearyin' for You". The success of Seven Songs allowed Jacobs-Bond to expand her publishing company, known as the Bond Shop, which she had originally opened with her son in her apartment in Janesville. Before the end of 1901, David Bispham
augmented Jacobs-Bond's celebrity by giving a recital of exclusively Jacobs-Bond songs in Chicago's Studebaker Theatre.
Within a few years, Jacobs-Bond performed for Theodore Roosevelt
, gave a recital in England (with Enrico Caruso), and a series of recitals in New York City
. Shortly before the death of African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872–1906), Jacobs-Bond collaborated with him, publishing five songs with lyrics by Dunbar and music by Jacobs-Bond.
In 1910 she published "A Perfect Day", for which 25 million copies of the sheet music were sold. It was the most popular of her compositions during her lifetime although "I Love You Truly" was more frequently performed later.
During World War I
Jacobs-Bond gave concerts in Europe for U.S. Army troops stationed there. "A Perfect Day" experienced special popularity with them.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond was the most successful woman composer of her day, by some reports earning more than $1 million in royalties from her music before the end of 1910. In 1941, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs cited Jacobs-Bond for her contributions to the progress of women during the 20th century.
Jacobs-Bond's life and lyrics serve as testimony to her resilience in overcoming hardships such as poverty, her father's death, her divorce, her second husband's death, and her only child's suicide in 1932 while "A Perfect Day" was playing on the phonograph.
United States
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singer, pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
, and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song
Parlour music
Parlour music is a type of popular music which, as the name suggests, is intended to be performed in the parlours of middle class homes by amateur singers and pianists...
"I Love You Truly
I Love You Truly
I Love You Truly, written by Carrie Jacobs Bond, is a parlor song. The song has been used at weddings since its release. It was the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies of sheet music...
", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song. 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
Just Awearyin' for You
"Just Awearyin' for You" is a parlor song, one of that genre's all-time hits.The lyrics were written by Frank Lebby Stanton and published in his Songs of the Soil . The tune was composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and published as part of Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose in 1901. Harry T...
", which was also widely recorded. Jacobs-Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day
A Perfect Day (song)
"A Perfect Day" is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond in 1909 at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California. Jacobs-Bond wrote the lyrics after watching the sun set over Mount Rubidoux from her 4th-floor room. She came up with the tune three months later while touring the Mojave Desert...
" in 1910. 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 was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame
This a list of inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dates of induction are given alongside the names.-A:*Adams, Lee *Adair, Tom *Adamson, Harold *Adler, Richard *Ager, Milton *Ahlert, Fred *Akst, Harry...
in 1970.
Personal life
Carrie Minetta Jacobs was born in Janesville, WisconsinJanesville, Wisconsin
Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat of Rock County and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 62,998.-History:...
, to Dr. Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Emma Davis Jacobs. A distant cousin of "Home Sweet Home
Home! Sweet Home!
"Home! Sweet Home!" is a song that has remained well-known for over 150 years. Adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne's 1823 opera Clari, Maid of Milan, the song's melody was composed by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop with lyrics by Payne...
" (also a parlor song) lyricist John Howard Payne
John Howard Payne
John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States, Great Britain, and the...
, she was born in the house of her maternal grandparents at the corner of Pleasant Street (now Court Street) and Oakhill Avenue.
Her father died while she was a child, and the family faced financial difficulties without him. During her short-lived first marriage to Edward Smith, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born. This marriage ended in divorce in 1887. Her second marriage was to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin
Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin
Johnstown is a town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 802 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Johnstown and Johnstown Center are located in the town.-Geography:...
, in 1888. They lived in Iron River, Michigan
Iron River, Michigan
Iron River is a city in Iron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,929. The U.S. Census Bureau 2006 population estimate for this city was 3,122....
, where she was a homemaker and supplemented the family income with painted ceramics, piano lessons, and her musical compositions. When the economy of the iron mining area collapsed, the family doctor had no money. Struck by a child's snowball, Dr. Bond fell on the ice, and died five days later from crushed ribs. 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. 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.
After achieving some success with her composing, she and her son moved to Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
to be closer to music publishers. Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple and lyrical music. Her lyrics and music exemplified extreme sentimentality, which was intensely popular at that time. 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. 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. To ease the pains of her rheumatism
Rheumatism
Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the joints and connective tissue. The study of, and therapeutic interventions in, such disorders is called rheumatology.-Terminology:...
, in the early 1920s she and her son moved to Hollywood, California, where she continued performing and publishing. Jacobs-Bond died in her Hollywood home of a heart attack. She is buried in the "Court of Honor" at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population is 191,719, down from 194,973 at the 2000 census. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California...
.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond also published books of children's poetry and an autobiography and drew the artwork for her sheet music covers. The wild rose, her trademark artwork, appears on many of her publications. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
wrote in her epitaph: "Beloved composer of 'I Love You Truly' . . . and a hundred other heart songs that express the loves and longings, sadness and gladness of all people everywhere . . . who met widowhood, conquered hardship, and achieved fame by composing and singing her simple romantic melodies. She was America’s gallant lady of song." The Los Angeles City Council honored her as "one of America’s greatest women."
Music career
Carrie Jacobs-Bond studied piano with area teachers while a child. A performer named "Blind Tom" toured the country, instantly memorizing any song played to him and then playing it back. After his part of the program, young Jacobs was prodded to go to the piano. She awed the crowd by playing back Blind Tom's song. She 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." After her return from Iron River, Michigan, and the death of her second husband, she took up residence at 402 East Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wisconsin, where she wrote the song "I Love You TrulyI Love You Truly
I Love You Truly, written by Carrie Jacobs Bond, is a parlor song. The song has been used at weddings since its release. It was the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies of sheet music...
".
A young female singer who lived across the hall from Jacobs-Bond had to leave unexpectedly, so she asked Jacobs-Bond to entertain her manager and another man. When the two men arrived, Jacobs-Bond invited the men into her apartment. The manager, Victor P. Sincere, saw some of her manuscripts lying around and asked whether she had written them. After Jacobs-Bond said yes, Sincere asked her to perform a song;, so she played "I Love You Truly" for him. When he asked whether she would like to have the song performed in public, she answered "no" because she had not copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
ed the song, and someone could steal it. Jacobs-Bond had second thoughts, so she went to the telephone at the corner drugstore
Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
and called opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Jessie Bartlett Davis was an American operatic singer and actress from Morris, Illinois, who was billed as "America's Representative Contralto".-Opera and acting:...
, even though they had never met. Jacobs-Bond hoped that Davis would make the song as popular as she had "Oh Promise Me" (by Reginald De Koven
Reginald de Koven
Henry Louis Reginald De Koven was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.-Biography:...
and Clement Scott
Clement Scott
Clement Scott was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century...
) in 1898. Davis volunteered to pay the cost to publish Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose.
After moving to Chicago, Jacobs-Bond slowly gathered a following by singing in small recitals in local homes. She published her first collection with the help of opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis. Seven Songs: as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, which was released in 1901, included two of her most enduring songs—"I Love You Truly" and "Just Awearyin' for You". The success of Seven Songs allowed Jacobs-Bond to expand her publishing company, known as the Bond Shop, which she had originally opened with her son in her apartment in Janesville. Before the end of 1901, David Bispham
David Bispham
David Scull Bispham was the first American–born operatic baritone to win an international reputation.- Early life and family:...
augmented Jacobs-Bond's celebrity by giving a recital of exclusively Jacobs-Bond songs in Chicago's Studebaker Theatre.
Within a few years, Jacobs-Bond performed for Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
, gave a recital in England (with Enrico Caruso), and a series of recitals in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Shortly before the death of African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....
(1872–1906), Jacobs-Bond collaborated with him, publishing five songs with lyrics by Dunbar and music by Jacobs-Bond.
In 1910 she published "A Perfect Day", for which 25 million copies of the sheet music were sold. It was the most popular of her compositions during her lifetime although "I Love You Truly" was more frequently performed later.
During World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
Jacobs-Bond gave concerts in Europe for U.S. Army troops stationed there. "A Perfect Day" experienced special popularity with them.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond was the most successful woman composer of her day, by some reports earning more than $1 million in royalties from her music before the end of 1910. In 1941, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs cited Jacobs-Bond for her contributions to the progress of women during the 20th century.
Jacobs-Bond's life and lyrics serve as testimony to her resilience in overcoming hardships such as poverty, her father's death, her divorce, her second husband's death, and her only child's suicide in 1932 while "A Perfect Day" was playing on the phonograph.
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 TrulyI Love You TrulyI Love You Truly, written by Carrie Jacobs Bond, is a parlor song. The song has been used at weddings since its release. It was the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies of sheet music...
, 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 Awearyin' for You, composed 1901; recorded by Evan WilliamsEvan Williams (tenor)Harry Evan Williams was an oratorio tenor with an exceptionally beautiful and tender voice. He recorded almost one hundred 78-RPM records on the Victor Red Seal label in the United States and His Masters Voice in England...
(1867–1918) - 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 DayA Perfect Day (song)"A Perfect Day" is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond in 1909 at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California. Jacobs-Bond wrote the lyrics after watching the sun set over Mount Rubidoux from her 4th-floor room. She came up with the tune three months later while touring the Mojave Desert...
, 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, 1916
- 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
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
- Shadows (first line "Once more I sit at evening") w.m. Jacobs-Bond, pp. 3–5
- Parting (first line "The light of morn is breaking") w. William Ordway Prestridge m. Jacobs-Bond, pp. 6–7
- Just Awearying for You w. Frank Lebby StantonFrank Lebby StantonFrank Lebby Stanton—born February 22, 1857 in Charleston, South Carolina, died January 7, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L...
m. Jacobs-Bond, pp. 8–9 - De Las' Long Res' (first line "Lay me down") w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Jacobs-Bond, p. 10
- I Love You TrulyI Love You TrulyI Love You Truly, written by Carrie Jacobs Bond, is a parlor song. The song has been used at weddings since its release. It was the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies of sheet music...
w.m. Jacobs-Bond, p. 11 - Still Unexprest (first line "Ah! 'tis but a dainty flow'r") w.m. Jacobs-Bond, pp. 12–13
- Des Hold My Hands Tonight (first line "Some little children hear a song") w.m. Jacobs-Bond, pp. 14–15
- Two Songs, 1902
- May I Print a Kiss
- 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
- Happy Lil Sal
- Trouble
- Half Minute Songs or Miniature Songs, 1910
- Making the Best of It
- First Ask Yourself
- To Understand
- Doan' Yo' Lis'n
- How to Find Success
- The Pleasure of Giving
- Answer the First Rap
- A Good Exercise
- A Present From Yourself
- Now and Then
- When They Say the Unkind Things
- 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
Autobiography
Jacobs-Bond, Carrie. The Roads of Melody: My Story. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. 224 pp.Poetry
Tales of Little Dogs (1921)External links
- "America's First Great Woman Popular Song Composer" — Biography from ParlorSongs.com by Rick Reublein
- Video on Jacobs-Bond's career by Robin & The Giant on their program Notables.
- Guide to the Carrie Jacobs-Bond Collection, 1885-2001 at the University of Colorado at BoulderUniversity of Colorado at BoulderThe University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond collection, circa 1896-circa 1944 (Library of Congress)
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond in the Songwriters Hall of Fame from ASCAP
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond lyrics at the Lied and Art Song Texts Page
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond's gravesite from FindaGrave.com
- Sheet music for "The Hand of You", 1920.
- Sheet music for "A Perfect Day", 1910.