A PERFECT DAY Carrie Jacobs-Bond PIANO Cello Obligato VOICE New SHEET MUSIC Med.

ITEM 1.) Carrie Jacobs-Bond; A PERFECT DAY; Song Folio Sheet Music; Piano / Voice with Cello Obligato; Complete Sheet Music; 1910; Boston Music Co. #112;

Small Format;

English throughout;

Front Cover Artwork featuring a wild rose branch with flowers and song lyrics;

Preprinted Cover Price of $ .60;

No Title Page or Table of Contents;

A Perfect Day; Words and Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond; Written at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California, 1909; Medium Voice, Ab; with Cello Obligato;

Treble and Bass Clef; From Top to Bottom, Cello Bass, Voice Treble, Piano Treble, Piano Bass;

1 Tune Total;

4 Pages of Music; With Lyrics;

Inside Rear Cover has "Excerpts from Beloved Songs by Carrie Jacobs-Bond"; Just a-Wearyin' For You, Lovely Hour, I've Done My Work, A Perfect Day; Each first day shown as a quarter of the ad;

Rear Cover has ad for "Songs by Carrie Jacobs-Bond";

Folded Panel Format;

Published by Boston Music Co.; Boston, Massachusetts; Copyright 1910; Below copyright notice is "When performing and programming this number on the air...." which suggests this copy was printed from plates made during the era when most radio broadcasts had live music;

Condition Very Good for age and the fact that it was "on display" for some time; Covers May Show Storage Wear; Pages Clean, Tight and Unmarked;

The primary item was part of the collection of Henry J. Hauschild Jr., who billed himself as a “Physiognomist – Bibliopolist – Cognoscente di Eccellentissimo”, and was the very proud owner of the world famous "Nose Gallery” at “The Oldest House” in Victoria, Texas. Henry Senior founded the Hauschild Music Company which was later owned by his 8 children and eventually the four brothers before being closed in 1980; After the Opera House Restaurant failed, the space became the Bible Book Store and later Opera House Antiques; This item was mixed with the leftover inventory of the Music Store and at one time was on consignment at the Bible Book Store;

"Musicologist and historian, Delmer Rogers, longtime member of the staff of the Department of Music at the University of Texas, is of the opinion that the Hauschild Music Company, founded in Victoria, Texas in 1891, was the second oldest institution to commercially publish sheet music in Texas. (Thos. Goggan of Houston being the first.) Also, his extensive research indicates that Hauschild's was the first in Texas to issues music with Spanish titles. About thirty were published, many by talented writers, and sold in large numbers. In addition, probing seems to prove that Hauschilds was the first to publish the efforts of several of the music-loving Germans of the area. Most interesting, too, is that the spritely composition, the Cowboy Rag offered in 1904 possibly was the purcursor of this genre of popular music." taken from "The Cognoscenti Collections";

HISTORICAL NOTE: "THIS PIECE IS OFTEN CONSIDERED TO BE WEDDING MUSIC !!!";

HISTORICAL NOTE: ""A Perfect Day" (1st line: "When you come to the end of a perfect day") is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862–1946) in 1909 at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California. Jacobs-Bond wrote the lyrics after watching the sun set over Mount Rubidoux from her 4th-floor room. She came up with the tune three months later while touring the Mojave Desert. For many years the Mission Inn played "A Perfect Day" on its carillon at the end of each day. "A Perfect Day" was phenomenally successful when 1st published in 1910. Eight million copies of the sheet music & five million recordings sold within a year; 25 million copies of the sheet music sold during Jacobs-Bond's lifetime, & many millions of recordings circulated as various artists performed the song on the fast-growing means of audio duplication. It was her most-requested number when Jacobs-Bond entertained the soldiers at U.S. Army camps in Europe during World War I. The popularity of "A Perfect Day" became so rampant that even Jacobs-Bond indicated in her autobiography that she had "tired" of hearing it. Along with "Just Awearyin' for You" & "I Love You Truly"—both published in 1901 as part of the collection Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose—"A Perfect Day" augmented Jacobs-Bond's career as the 1st woman who made a living from composing. "A Perfect Day" has been frequently recorded in English. Otto Leisner's Norwegian translation was popularized by Sissel Kyrkjebø. Besides the plaintive 1915 McKee Trio instrumental rendition, "A Perfect Day" has been recorded by numerous artists from various backgrounds, including David Bispham, Evan Williams, Clara Butt, Nelson Eddy, Italian-American Rosa Ponselle, Blue Mountains Trio, Virgil Fox (organ only), Peggy Balensuela (singer) & William Hughes (piano), African American Paul Robeson, Swedish American Alan Lindquest, Englishman John McHugh, Austria's Richard Tauber, Australia's Judith Durham, The Fureys (Ireland), Germany's Annah Graefe, Scotland's Moira Anderson, & English baritone Sir Thomas Allen accompanied by Scottish Malcolm Martineau. On the screen accompanied by Barbara Stanwyck at the piano, Sterling Holloway sang "A Perfect Day" in the 1940 feature film Remember the Night. Danish journalist Otto Georg Leisner (1917–2008) translated "A Perfect Day" into Norwegian as "En deilig dag"; this translation has been recorded by Sissel Kyrkjebø. "A Perfect Day" exemplifies the sentimentality popular in the late Victorian & post-Victorian era but has risen above such a sequestered view by nuances of studied reflection which, combined with the chord progressions of Jacobs-Bond's tune, have borne its appeal across time & cultural boundaries. "A Perfect Day" persists as an elegy using the analogy of the end of day as the end of life. In 1929, at Lake Arrowhead, California, with "A Perfect Day" playing on a phonograph, Jacobs-Bond's only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, committed suicide..";

HISTORICAL NOTE: "Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, & songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s. She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song "I Love You Truly", becoming the 1st woman to sell one million copies of a song. An enduring favorite as a wedding song, it 1st 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's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was "A Perfect Day" in 1910. A 2009 August 29 NPR documentary on Jacobs-Bond emphasized "I Love You Truly" together with "Just Awearyin' for You" & "A Perfect Day" as her three great hits. Jacobs-Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Carrie Minetta Jacobs was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, to Dr. Hannibal Jacobs & his wife, Emma Davis Jacobs. A distant cousin of "Home Sweet Home" (also a parlor song) lyricist John Howard Payne, she was born in the house of her maternal grandparents at the corner of Pleasant Street (now Court Street) & Oakhill Avenue. Her father died while she was a child, & the family faced financial difficulties without him. During her short-lived 1st marriage to Edward Smith, her only child, Frederick Jacobs Smith, was born. This marriage ended in divorce in 1887. Her 2nd marriage was to her childhood sweetheart, Dr. Frank Lewis Bond of Johnstown, Wisconsin, in 1888. They lived in Iron River, Michigan, where she was a homemaker & supplemented the family income with painted ceramics, piano lessons, & 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, & died five days later from crushed ribs. His wife was left with debts too large to be absorbed by the $4,000 in proceeds of his life insurance, & returned to Janesville. Selling ceramics, renting out a room, & writing songs did not produce enough money to pay her bills, so she slowly sold off her furniture & ate only once per day. After achieving some success with her composing, she & her son moved to Chicago to be closer to music publishers. Soon she found that people enjoyed her simple & lyrical music. Her lyrics & music exemplified extreme 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, she resorted to establishing her own sheet music publishing company in 1896. As a result, she was one of very few women in the industry & perhaps the only one to own every word of every song she wrote. To ease the pains of her rheumatism, in the early 1920s she & her son moved to Hollywood, California, where she continued performing & publishing. 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. Carrie Jacobs-Bond also published books of children's poetry & an autobiography & drew the artwork for her sheet music covers. The wild rose, her trademark artwork, appears on many of her publications. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover wrote in her epitaph: "Beloved composer of 'I Love You Truly' . . . & a hundred other heart songs that express the loves & longings, sadness & gladness of all people everywhere . . . who met widowhood, conquered hardship, & achieved fame by composing & singing her simple romantic melodies. She was America’s gallant lady of song." The Los Angeles City Council honored her as "one of America’s greatest women." Carrie Jacobs-Bond studied piano with area teachers while a child. A performer named "Blind Tom" toured the country, instantly memorizing any song played to him & then playing it back. After his part of the program, young Jacobs was prodded to go to the piano. She awed the crowd by playing back Blind Tom's song. She began writing music in the late 1880s when encouraged by her husband to "put down on paper some of the songs that were continually running through my mind." After her return from Iron River, Michigan, & the death of her 2nd husband, she took up residence at 402 East Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wisconsin, where she wrote the song "I Love You Truly". A young female singer who lived across the hall from Jacobs-Bond had to leave unexpectedly, so she asked Jacobs-Bond to entertain her manager & another man. When the two men arrived, Jacobs-Bond invited the men into her apartment. The manager, Victor P. Sincere, saw some of her manuscripts lying around & asked whether she had written them. After Jacobs-Bond said yes, Sincere asked her to perform a song; so she played "I Love You Truly" for him. When he asked whether she would like to have the song performed in public, she answered "no" because she had not copyrighted the song, & someone could steal it. Jacobs-Bond had 2nd thoughts, so she went to the telephone at the corner drugstore & called opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis, even though they had never met. Jacobs-Bond hoped that Davis would make the song as popular as she had "Oh Promise Me" (by Reginald De Koven & Clement Scott) in 1898. Davis volunteered to pay the cost to publish Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose. After moving to Chicago, Jacobs-Bond slowly gathered a following by singing in small recitals in local homes. She published her 1st collection with the help of opera star Jessie Bartlett Davis. Seven Songs: as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, which was released in 1901, included two of her most enduring songs—"I Love You Truly" & "Just Awearyin' for You". The success of Seven Songs allowed 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. Before the end of 1901, David Bispham augmented Jacobs-Bond's celebrity by giving a recital of exclusively Jacobs-Bond songs in Chicago's Studebaker Theatre. Within a few years, Jacobs-Bond performed for Theodore Roosevelt, gave a recital in England (with Enrico Caruso), & a series of recitals in New York City. Shortly before the death of African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), Jacobs-Bond collaborated with him, publishing five songs with lyrics by Dunbar & music by Jacobs-Bond. In 1910 she published "A Perfect Day", for which 25 million copies of the sheet music were sold. It was the most popular of her compositions during her lifetime although "I Love You Truly" was more frequently performed later. During World War I Jacobs-Bond gave concerts in Europe for U.S. Army troops stationed there. "A Perfect Day" experienced special popularity with them. Carrie Jacobs-Bond was the most successful woman composer of her day, by some reports earning more than $1 million in royalties from her music before the end of 1910. In 1941, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs cited Jacobs-Bond for her contributions to the progress of women during the 20th century. Jacobs-Bond's life & lyrics serve as testimony to her resilience in overcoming hardships such as poverty, her father's death, her divorce, her 2nd husband's death, & her only child's suicide in 1932 while "A Perfect Day" was playing on the phonograph. Autobiography: Jacobs-Bond, Carrie. The Roads of Melody: My Story. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1927. 223 pp. ISBN 0-405-12825-8, ASIN B000ORLJCW. Poetry: Jacobs-Bond, Carrie (1940). Palmer, Jamie. ed. The End of the Road. Hollywood, CA: George Palmer Putnam. ISBN 1419129422. Tales of Little Dogs (1921).";