"A Perfect Day" persists as an elegy using the analogy of the end of day as the end of life. "A Perfect Day" exemplifies the sentimentality popular in the late Victorian and post- Victorian era but has risen above such a sequestered view by nuances of studied reflection which, combined with the chord progressions of Jacobs-Bond's tune, have borne its appeal across time and cultural boundaries. In 1976, American tenor, Robert White, concluded his first album with RCA Records, When You and I Were Young, Maggie, with "A Perfect Day" accompanied by pianist Samuel Sanders.ĭanish journalist Otto Leisner (1917–2008) translated "A Perfect Day" into Norwegian as "En deilig dag" this translation has been recorded by, among others, Sissel Kyrkjebø. Norma Zimmer sang "A Perfect Day" on the Lawrence Welk Show in 1962 in response to thousands of requests. In the 1940s, Alfredo Antonini and his orchestra collaborated with Victoria Cordova and John Serry Sr. In 1945, opera soprano Helen Traubel recorded an andante interpretation. In the 1940 feature film Remember the Night, Sterling Holloway sang "A Perfect Day" accompanied by Barbara Stanwyck at the piano. Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae recorded the song as a duet.
Baritone Sir Thomas Allen accompanied by Malcolm Martineau.Peggy Balensuela (singer) and William Hughes (piano).Otto Leisner's Norwegian translation was popularized by Sissel Kyrkjebø.īesides the plaintive 1915 McKee Trio instrumental rendition linked in this article, "A Perfect Day" has been recorded by numerous artists from various backgrounds, including:
"A Perfect Day" has been frequently recorded in English. "A Perfect Day" Is considered by many to be the unofficial theme song of the browser role-play game "Titanic Voyage". "A Perfect Day" was in the ship's songbook when RMS Titanic made its fatal maiden voyage in 1912. She often had it played at White House concerts. Īccording 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. Along with " Just Awearyin' for You" and " I Love You Truly"-both published in 1901 as part of the collection Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose-"A Perfect Day" augmented Jacobs-Bond's career as the first woman who made a living from composing. The popularity of "A Perfect Day" became so rampant that even Jacobs-Bond indicated in her autobiography that she had "tired" of hearing it. It was her most-requested number when Jacobs-Bond entertained the soldiers at U.S. 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. "A Perfect Day" was phenomenally successful when first published in 1910.
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