1. Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
23 Facts About Carrie Jacobs-Bond
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond 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.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond Minetta Jacobs was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to Dr Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Mary Emogene Davis Jacobs and was an only child.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond's father died while she was a child, and the family faced financial difficulties without him.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond could pick out piano tunes at age 4, she could play some pieces just by hearing them at age 6, and then at age 8 she was able to play Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody just by hearing it.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond studied the piano from age 9 to age 17, with the dream to become a songwriter.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond lived among miners and loggers for several years and when the economy of the iron mining area collapsed, Frank had no money.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond was left with debts too large to be covered by the $4,000 in proceeds of his life insurance, and she returned to Janesville.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond slowly sold off their furniture and ate only once per day.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond's publishing company changed location eight times, finally settling in Hollywood, California, which is where she and her son moved to in the early 1920s to help ease the pains of her rheumatism, where she continued performing and publishing.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond named her home there "The End of the Road".
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond was an early supporter of the Theatre Arts Alliance, which created the Hollywood Bowl near her home.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond died in her Hollywood home of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 28,1946, at the age of 85.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond is buried in the "Court of Honor" at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond drew the artwork for her sheet music covers.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond awed the crowd by playing back Blind Tom's song.
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Carrie 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.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond hoped that Davis would make the song as popular as she had "Oh Promise Me" in 1898.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond published her first collection with the help of opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis.
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The success of Seven Songs allowed Carrie 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.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond gave a recital in England and a series of recitals in New York City.
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond was invited again to Washington to perform at a White House State Dinner given by President Harding for the Members of the Supreme Court on February 2,1922.