<Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1901, 1906 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Carrie Jacobs - Bond </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Love You Truly" is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs - Bond . Since its publication in 1901 it has been sung at weddings, recorded by numerous artists over many decades, and heard on film and television . </P> <P> Carrie Jacobs - Bond began to write songs in 1894 to supplement the income of her husband, Frank Bond . When he died in 1895, she returned briefly to her hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, where "I Love You Truly" was written . She then moved to Chicago where she painted china and rented out rooms to make ends meet . There she continued to write songs and eventually sought to publish them herself . With the encouragement and assistance of friends, including a loan from contralto Jessie Bartlett Davis, in 1901 she published a sheet music collection of her compositions called Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose, one of which was "I Love You Truly". She published it again as a separate song in 1906, at the same time correcting an oversight and filing for copyright . It sold over a million copies, one of the earliest songs composed by a woman to achieve that distinction . </P>

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