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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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jacobs-Bond's bio on Infoplease.com )〕 pieces of popular 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 revised "I Love You Truly" and republished it in 1905. (Jacobs-Bond's Infoplease.com bio ) lists "I Love You Truly" together with "Just Awearyin' for You" and "A Perfect Day" as being the three songs for which she is most remembered. Frank Lebby Stanton wrote the lyrics for "Just Awearyin' for You"; Jacobs-Bond, the music. She alone wrote both words and music for those other two songs, as is the case with the preponderance of her songs. "Linger Not" and "Until God's Day" are two other songs on which Stanton and Jacobs-Bond collaborated. 〕 Jacobs-Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day" in 1910.〔Rick Reublein, (America's First Great Woman Popular Song Composer. ) Musicologist David A. Jasen (in ''A Century of American Popular Music'' (edition ) (York: Routledge, 2002 ), ISBN 0-415-93700-0, ISBN 978-0-415-93700-9) chose those three of Jacobs-Bond's works for inclusion among the most noteworthy U.S. songs of the 20th century.〕 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.〔("Carrie Jacobs-Bond sings again" ) on National Public Radio, 2009 August 30 (accessed 2009 August 30). Judith Durham's 1970 London performance of "A Perfect Day": 〕 Jacobs-Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.〔As of 2009 one book-length biography is available: Peggy DePuydt, ''A Perfect Day: Carrie Jacobs-Bond, the Million-Dollar Woman'' (New York: Golden Book Publisher, 2003), 334 pp., ISBN 1-58898-915-1, ISBN 978-1-58898-915-4, though it is a popular rather than scholarly treatment. See also her autobiography and Judith E. Carman, William K. Gaeddert, Rita M. Resch, & Gordon Myers (editors), ''Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999: An Annotated Bibliography'' (3rd edition with foreword by Phyllis Gurtin) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001), ''passim'', ISBN 0-8108-4137-1.〕 ==Personal life== Carrie Minetta Jacobs was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to Dr. Hannibal Jacobs and his wife, Emma (Davis) Jacobs. She was a distant cousin of John Howard Payne, the lyricist who wrote "Home Sweet Home."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jacobs-Bond bio on the Songwriters Hall of Fame site. )〕 Jacobs 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 Jacobs' short-lived first marriage to Edward Smith, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born.〔(Jacobs-Bond bio ), University of Colorado〕 This marriage ended in divorce in 1887. Her second marriage in 1888 was to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin. 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. Carrie was left with debts too large to be covered by the $4,000 in proceeds of his life insurance, and she returned to Janesville. Selling ceramics, renting out a room, and writing songs did not produce enough money to pay her bills. She slowly sold off their furniture and ate only once per day. After achieving some success with her composing, Jacobs-Bond moved with her son to Chicago to be closer to music publishers.〔 Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple and lyrical music.〔(Carrie Jacobs-Bond collection, circa 1896-circa 1944 (Library of Congress) )〕 Her lyrics and music exemplified 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, in 1896 she resorted to establishing her own sheet music publishing company. 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.〔("Carrie Jacobs Bond Sings Again" ), NPR〕 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. She named her home there "The End of the Road" (also the title of her 1940 book). She was an early supporter of the Theatre Arts Alliance, which created the Hollywood Bowl near her home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barn Door Acoustics at the Birth of the Bowl )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carrie Jacobs-Bond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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