Previous posts for August 11th are here: Carrie Jacobs-Bond (2019) and Raymond Leppard (2020)
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Carrie Jacobs-Bond (11 August 1862 – 28 December 1946) was an American singer, pianist, entrepreneur, and composer of once very popular parlor songs.
Beneath the Surface
Because Jacobs-Bond's attempts to have her music published were repeatedly turned down by the male-dominated music industry of the day, in 1896 she resorted to establishing her own sheet music publishing company. As a result, she owned every word and note of every song she wrote. -- adapted from Wikipedia
When Jacobs-Bonds was destitute,
She faced her troubles, resolute,
And wrote some songs she thought would suit
The tastes of singers of repute,
And then she thought it were astute
To publish them herself, to boot.
Her copyright was absolute,
Not subject to the least dispute.
(She grew, and then she sold, her fruit.)
Perhaps her songs are quaint and cute,
But they have toughness at their root.
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