Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946) was the most successful song composer of the late 19th-early 20th centuries, combing Parlor Songs with traditional art song and creating her own publishing company to support herself as a single mother. She had songs that sold over 25 million copies--in the 1910s! She also self-published her own autobiography, The Roads of Melody.

11 Small Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose

• Where Youth's Eternal

7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose

• I Love You Truly

11 Small Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose

• Tis Summer In Thine Eyes

Half-Minute Songs

Musical clips performed by Toni Marie Palmertree, soprano, and Ellen Rissinger, piano:

Recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA.

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