Carrie Jacobs Bond I Love You Truly

"I Love You Truly"
1906 sheet music comprehend
Song
Published	1901, 1906, by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son
Genre	Parlor song
Songwriter(s)	Carrie Jacobs-Bond

"I Love Yous Truly" is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Since its publication in 1901 information technology has been sung at weddings, recorded by numerous artists over many decades, and heard on film and television.

History [ edit ]

Carrie Jacobs-Bond began to write songs in 1894 to supplement the income of her husband, Frank Bond.^[one] When he died in 1895, she returned briefly to her hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, where "I Love You Truly" was written.^[2] She then moved to Chicago where she painted china and rented out rooms to brand ends run into.^[1] There she connected to write songs and eventually sought to publish them herself. With the encouragement and aid of friends, including a loan from contralto Jessie Bartlett Davis, in 1901 she published a canvas music collection of her compositions called Seven Songs every bit Unpretentious equally the Wild Rose , i of which was "I Love You Truly".^[1] She published it again as a separate vocal in 1906, at the same time correcting an oversight and filing for copyright. It sold over a 1000000 copies,^[3] one of the earliest songs composed past a woman to attain that distinction.^{[ citation needed ]} ^[a] Jacobs-Bond was invited to sing at the White House by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, and Calvin Coolidge, and sang "I Honey Yous Truly" each time.^[iii]

Lyrics and musical clarification [ edit ]

I love you lot truly, truly dear,
Life with its sorrow, life with its tear
Fades into dreams when I experience you are most
For I love you truly, truly dear.

Ah! Love, 'tis something to feel your kind hand
Ah! Yes, 'tis something past your side to stand;
Gone is the sorrow, gone doubt and fear,
For yous love me truly, truly dearest.^{[ citation needed ]}

"I Dearest Y'all Truly" has been described as having a "catchy melody... and instantly familiar audio" with a "late-nineteenth century, salon-like character";^[five] it is categorized as a "high-class ballad",^{[half dozen]} a genre of the period practical to serious ballads that were suitable for cultured venues (versus vaudeville).^[7] Robert Cummings describes it thus:

The song consists mainly of the melody, its 2nd subject, and repeats. Yet the craftsmanship here is deftly wrought, the melodic goods instantly memorable, and the words sincere and beguilingly innocent.^[five]

The slice became a standard at wedding ceremonies,^[three] and a mainstay of barbershop harmony arrangers and singers.^[8]

Recordings [ edit ]

The song was a hitting record for Elsie Baker in 1912 (Victor B-12069).^[9]

It has since been recorded by numerous artists, including Sophie Braslau (1916), Dusolina Giannini (1926), Al Bowlly (1934), Bing Crosby (1934 and 1945), Erskine Hawkins (1942), Helen Traubel (1946), Jeanette MacDonald (1947), and as duets past Jo Stafford and Nelson Eddy (1951), and Pat and Shirley Boone (1962).^[10] ^{[ verification needed ]} ^[11]

Film soundtracks include Jill Paquette'southward cover for the motion-picture show, The Song (2014).^{[ citation needed ]}

Other media [ edit ]

As early on every bit 1929 the vocal was heard in the comedy film Wise Girls ^[12] and has since been heard in numerous movies.

The song was as well sung by Bert (Ward Bond) and Ernie (Frank Faylen) every bit they serenaded George (James Stewart) and Mary Bailey (Donna Reed) on their wedding night in It'southward a Wonderful Life (1946).^[thirteen]
It was heard in the film I Married a Witch (1942), when it was played by the wedding ceremony band and sung by Helen St. Rayner several times.^{[ commendation needed ]}
In the film Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), the members of the motorcycle gang sing a tuneless, mocking version of the song at the wedding ceremony of Abigail and Gypsy.^{[ commendation needed ]}
In the episode "Hither comes the bride--again" (1979) on "Happy Days" Potsie (Anson Williams) sings the vocal prior to Howard (Tom Bosley) and Marion(Marion Ross) vow renewal.
In the romantic drama The Song (2014), the characters Jed and Rose are seen watching this aforementioned scene from It'south A Wonderful Life on television, and the song is sung at their wedding past Jill Paquette DeZwaan.^{[ commendation needed ]}

It has also been heard on television sitcoms, often for comic effect. In the first-season episode of I Dearest Lucy , "The Spousal relationship License" (1952), information technology was sung by Mrs. Willoughby (Elizabeth Patterson);^{[ citation needed ]} in the seventh-flavour episode of All in the Family , "The Unemployment Story: Part ane" (1976), information technology was sung by Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton).^[14] In the 2d-season episode of Amen , "Wedding Bong Blues", it was sung repeatedly past the Hetebrink sisters, Amelia (Roz Ryan) and Cassieta (Barbara Montgomery), equally a running gag.^{[ citation needed ]} In the seventh-season episode of Boy Meets World , "It's About Time" (1999), Amy Matthews (Betsy Randle) sang the song.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notes [ edit ]

^ Maude Nugent'due south "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1896) was an before 1000000-seller;^[iv] yet, Nugent did non own and publish her ain vocal as Jacobs-Bond did.^{[ citation needed ]}

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul South. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950 . Harvard University Press. pp.194–195. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5 .
^ Hannan, Caryn (2008). Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary . North American Volume Dist LLC. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-878592-63-7 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Raph, Theodore (2012). The American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites . Courier. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-486-17133-3 .
^ Shrock, Joel (2004). The Golden Age . Greenwood. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-313-32204-4 .
^ ^a ^b Cummings, Robert (2019). "Carrie Jacobs-Bail: I Love You Truly, for Vocalization & Pianoforte—Clarification by Robert Cummings". AllMusic.com. AllMusic Featured Composition. Retrieved Dec 26, 2019.
^ Hamm, Charles (2006). Putting Pop Music in Its Place . Cambridge Academy Printing. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-521-02861-5 .
^ Hamm, Charles, ed. (1995). Irving Berlin. Early Songs, Part i: 1907–1911 . A-R Editions. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-89579-305-viii .
^ See for case Szabo, Burt, ed. (2014) [1988]. "Heritage of Harmony Songbook: A Drove of Favorite Barbershop Songs Commemorating the Gilded Anniversary of..." Nashville, TN: Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Store Quartet Singing in America, Inc. ASIN B0012OTSTM. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2019 – via Barbershop.org.
^ Jasen, David A. (2002). A Century of American Popular Music . Taylor & Francis. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-415-93700-ix .
^ Hart, William Due south. (2011). In My Lifetime . Xlibris Corporation. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-4568-7764-4 .
^ For the ii Bing Crisby recordings, come across Baker, J. Richard; Currington, David & Macfarlane, Malcolm (Dec 6, 2019). "A Bing Crosby Discography: Commercial Recordings—The Decca Years". BING magazine. International Society Crosby. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
^ Munden, Kenneth W. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Move Pictures Produced in the United States . University of California Press. p. 910. ISBN 978-0-520-20969-5 .
^ Willian, Michael (2006). The Essential Information technology'due south a Wonderful Life . Chicago Review Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-56976-428-2 .
^ Spangler, Lynn C. (2003). Television Women from Lucy to Friends . Greenwood. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-313-28781-7 .

External links [ edit ]

Sail music for I Love Y'all Truly (Transcribed, in 3 keys, with MIDI files)
I Love Yous Truly Scans of original sail music from Wisconsin Sheet Music Database