With complete ownership of music published with the Bond Shop, Jacobs-Bond’s was financially solvent, not in the least because her most enduring hit “I Love You Truly” made her the first woman to sell one million copies of sheet music. It was an instant success, enabling Jacobs-Bond to expand the small music publishing company she’d formed with her son in 1896. Davis instead volunteers to pay for the publication of Jacobs-Bond’s best compositions, which were released in 1901 as Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose.
But she did ring up opera singer Jessie Bartlett Davis, hoping Davis would popularize her music. Sincere, was impressed by Jacobs-Bond’s compositions, but she turned down his offer to have them performed because they were not under copyright. Jacobs-Bond got her first big break when her neighbor, a young singer, asked Jacobs-Bond to entertain her manager after an unexpected emergency. Jacobs-Bond and her son moved to Chicago to be nearer music publishers, and she slowly built her reputation by singing in small recitals in local Chicago homes. During their marriage, she supplemented the household income with her painted ceramics, piano lessons, and minor musical compositions, but as a widow, this proved inadequate. Frank Lewis Bond, died of crushed ribs after an accident. Jacobs-Bond was distantly related to Home! Sweet Home! lyricist John Howard Payne, but she did not rely upon this tenuous connection when she forged her own musical career after her second husband, Dr. Though the music industry was dominated by men–as were most industries, naturally–there were a few women who managed to break in, though Carrie Jacobs-Bond was the only woman to own every word and note she wrote. Cohan (all of whom were considered leading names in Tin Pan Alley) earned considerable royalties from their talents. The birth of ragtime also coincided with the popularity of parlour music, and composers and lyricists such as Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, and George M.
This was lucrative business for many publishers, and soon, more and more songs were composed specifically for this amateur market. Now you could hear a popular song performed on stage, and then rush to the nearest music store to purchase the sheet music and learn to sing and play it at home. During the turn of the century, parlour music–that is, music “intended to be performed in the parlours of middle class homes by amateur singers and pianists”–created a sharp increase in demand for sheet music of the day’s latest hits. Music played a large part in the lives of the Victorians and Edwardians, and with the boom in the music industry in the 1870s and 1880s, not only was a piano de rigueur in the middle class home, but musical talent was encouraged in both males and females.
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