wPAR@ ` /TEXT ` !Bond, Carrie Jacobs1862╨1946composerBorn in Janesville, Wisconsin, on August 11, 1862, Carrie Jacobs attended local schools and, on her own and occasionally under various teachers, learned to play the piano. In December 1880 she married E. J. Smith, whom she divorced in 1888, and in June 1889 she married Dr. Frank L. Bond, with whom she lived in Iron River in the upper peninsula of Michigan until his death in 1895. By that time she had already begun to write songs and in December 1894 had seen two, ╥Is My Dolly Dead?╙ and ╥Mother╒s Cradle Song,╙ published in Chicago. A short time later she moved to Chicago, where she ran a boarding house, painted china, and continued to write songs, most of which remained for many years in manuscript. By giving recitals and concerts in private homes and in public she supplemented her meager income and at the same time gradually built up a ready audience for her songs. Finally, in 1901, with the help of a loan, she published Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, which included two of her most popular songs, ╥I Love You Truly╙ and ╥Just a-Wearyin╒ for You.╙ The success of that venture allowed her to open the Bond Shop, where she sold sheet music, designed by herself and printed by the Carrie Jacobs Bond and Son company. An invitation to sing for President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House, a recital in England in which she appeared along with the young Enrico Caruso, and a series of three recitals in New York City in 1906╨1907 all buoyed her fame. She was already wealthy by 1910, when she published her most popular song, ╥The End of a Perfect Day,╙ the ultimate expression of the artlessly sentimental style in which she worked. By the early 1920s ╥The End of a Perfect Day╙ had sold 5 million copies in sheet along with uncounted recordings and piano rolls. From 1910 Carrie Bond lived in Hollywood, California. In all she wrote over 400 songs, of which about 170 were published. The rapid social changes of the years of and immediately following World War I dimmed the appeal of her kind of music, however, and she even found herself occasionally being parodied. In 1927 she published The Roads of Melody, a memoir, and in 1940 The End of the Road, a collection of thoughts and verses. She died in Hollywood, California, on December 28, 1946. &styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ ( !I E 5¬ F !I ╓ !I !I 5¬ !I é !I ò !I ¡ !I └ !I link `
