A Perfect Day (first line: "When you come to the end of a perfect
day") is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862â€"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 first published in 1910. Eight
million copies of the sheet music and five million recordings sold
within a year; 25 million copies of the sheet music sold during
Jacobs-Bond's lifetime, and 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" and "I Love You
Truly"â€"both published in 1901 as part of the collection Seven Songs
as Unpretentious as the Wild Roseâ€""A Perfect Day" augmented
Jacobs-Bond's career as the first woman who made a living from
composing.According to "Backstairs At the White House" by former White
House seamstress Lillian Rogers Parks, "A Perfect Day" was the
favorite song of First Lady Florence Harding. She often had it played
at White House concerts."A Perfect Day" was in the ship's songbook
when RMS Titanic made its fatal maiden voyage in 1912.
day") is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862â€"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 first published in 1910. Eight
million copies of the sheet music and five million recordings sold
within a year; 25 million copies of the sheet music sold during
Jacobs-Bond's lifetime, and 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" and "I Love You
Truly"â€"both published in 1901 as part of the collection Seven Songs
as Unpretentious as the Wild Roseâ€""A Perfect Day" augmented
Jacobs-Bond's career as the first woman who made a living from
composing.According to "Backstairs At the White House" by former White
House seamstress Lillian Rogers Parks, "A Perfect Day" was the
favorite song of First Lady Florence Harding. She often had it played
at White House concerts."A Perfect Day" was in the ship's songbook
when RMS Titanic made its fatal maiden voyage in 1912.
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