![]() (Carrie Jacobs-Bond, The Roads of Melody, pp. its a perfect day if you just skip away its a perfect day theres nothing. I finished the song entirely before morning." StatementThe -Blossom Dearie&Len Saltzberg lyrics of the singer Youll. Hawks, who sat next to me.said, 'Carrie, you have another song, haven't you' 'Well,' I replied, 'maybe I have.' I stayed at her home that night, but did not go to sleep. ![]() I took them down and read them at the dinner that evening, then put them in my purse and thereupon forgot them.Ībout three months later I was crossing the Mohave Desert, in the moonlight, with some more nature-loving friends and without realizing that I had memorized those words, I began singing them to the original tune. "I hurried back to the Mission Inn to get ready for dinner, and while dressing I thought how I wished I could express my thanks to those friends in some little way, just out of the ordinary and almost at once came the words for 'A Perfect Day.' I wrote them very hurriedly I did not have time to change a word or a sentence. I had been motoring through Southern California with some nature-loving friends we had been seeing many beautiful sights, but the glory of this sunset from the mountain was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Rubidoux in Riverside, California, this glorious place that has been made famous by the Easter morning sunrise services, inaugurated by Frank Miller, Master of the Mission Inn. The inspiration came to me as I was viewing a wonderful sunset from the top of Mt. "The story of the writing of 'The End of a Perfect Day' has been told many, many times, and in many, many ways, but the truth is a very simple story. ![]() She describes the story in her autobiography "The Roads of Melody," published in 1927: "A Perfect Day" was one of Carrie Jacobs-Bond's most popular songs. ![]()
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