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"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.