The Music of

Carrie Jacobs-Bond
(1861-1946)

Carrie Jacobs-Bond (whose maiden name was Carrie Minetta Jacobs) was born on 11 August 1861 in Janesville, Wisconson and died on 28 December 1946 in Glendale, California at the age of 85. (For more info, goto the Library of Congress at this webpage.) She was a distant cousin of John Howard Payne, who wrote the words to Home Sweet Home. She was first married on 28 Dec 1880 (at 18) to Mr. Edward J. Smith with whom she had a son named Frederic Jacobs Smith (b. 23 Jul 1881; d. 1928). After seven years they were divorced (on 18 Jun 1889). She was later married in 1887 (at the age of 25) to Dr. Frank Lewis Bond (born in 1858) until his death in 1895. She was the owner of the music publishing company called The Bond Shop which had various addresses, all in Chicago, IL, among which were: 1) 5535 Drexel Avenue; 2) 746 South Michigan Avenue; and, 3) the Fine Arts Building. She published a collection of her songs called Songs Everybody Sings (circa 1927) and a memoir called The Roads to Melody (1927).

Three collections of special note are:
Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music (Matches found for her music)
of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana

at the American Music Researce Center of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
Guide to the Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection, 1885-2001

Carrie Jacobs-Bond Collection, Music Division of the Library of Congress, 2004
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu004006_x.pdf

Her most popular songs were I Love You Truly (1901) and A Perfect Day (1910).

An excellent webpage with more info about Bond as well as music(!), I recommend you visit the ParlorSongs website's webpage at
Carrie Jacobs-Bond: America's First Great Popular American Woman Composer

Among the Sources column the abbreviation AAS refers to American Art Songs of the Turn of the Century edited by Paul Sperry (New York: Dover Publications, Inc.), ISBN 0-486-26749-0; SES her songbook collection mentioned above; and all other references are to Box/Item numbers at the Levy website or to the collections at the University of Indiana (UoInd) or the Music Library of the University of South Carolina (UoSC).

1. Making the Best of It
2. First Ask Yourself
3. To Understand
4. Doan' Yo' Lis'n
5. How to Find Success
6. The Pleasure of Giving
7. Answer the First Rap
8. A Good Exercise
9. A Present from Yourself
10. Now and Then
11. When They Say the Unkind Things
12. Keep Awake

• The Dear Auf Wiedersehn
• Where to Build Your Castles

• Mother's Cradle Song [1895]
• Write to Me Often Dear [1896]
• Come, Mr. Dream-Maker [1897]
• The Pansy and the Forget-Me-Not [1897]
• Who Is True [1897]
• June and December [1898]
• Someone I Love Is Coming [1898]
• Through the Mists [1898]
• Until Death [1898]
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• Have You Seen My Kitty?
• The Bird Song
• A Little Shoe
• When My Ships Come In

• Parting [pp. 6-7]
• Shadows [pp. 3-5]
• Just Awearyin' for You [pp. 8-9]
• I Love You Truly [p. 11]
• De Las' Long Res' [p. 10]
• Stll Unexprest [pp. 12-13]
• Des Hold My Hands [p. 14-15]

• Two Hard Days for Mother [p. 16]
• The Path o' Life [p. 17]
• Talkin' About Little Things [p. 18]

• But I Have You
• Cupid's Home
• Sunshine--Po' Li'l Lamb
• The 'Lily and the Rose
• Tis Summer in Thine Eyes
• When You're So Sad
• When Youth's Eternal
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• I Was Dreaming--Maybe
• Linger Not
• A Bad Dream
• Love's Sacred Trust
• Mother's Three Ages of Man
• Over the Hills and Fields of Daisies
• The Dear Auf Wiedersehn [1892]
• Time Make All But Love the Past
• When I Am Dead My Dearest
• When I Bid the World Goodnight
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• Nothing But a Wild Rose
• The Angelus
• Walking in Her Garden

• In a Foreign Land
• Just By Laughing [1902]
• Men and Women
• My Dearest Dear
• When Do I Want You Most?
• Where to Build Your Castles [1892]
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• After Vacation [1902]
• Morning and Evening [1902]
• The Free Concert [1902]
• The Lure [1902]
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• Almost Impossible
• Know and Find
• Look Up
• Mother's Mine
• Please
• Smile a Little
• Stop and Sing
• The Good Folk
• The Way of the World
• There Is a Way
• Why