Carrie Jacobs-Bond
American singer, pianist, and songwriter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[1] pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond | |
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Background information | |
Born | August 11, 1862 Janesville, Wisconsin |
Died | December 28, 1946(1946-12-28) (aged 84) Hollywood |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Years active | 1890s-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.[2] The song 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.[3]
Jacobs-Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day" in 1910.[4] 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.[5] Jacobs-Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.[6]