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Show HOW "END OP FFRFECT DAY" WAS WRITTEN" IN' RIVERSIDE Many people know that Carrie .Tacohs Bond wrote her most famous song. "The End of a Perfect Day," But just how she came to pen this lyric that has swept around the whole world is told in this month's Success magazine as follows: "How I come to write 'The End of a Perfect Day-? "I'm very glad to straighten out that mystery for hundreds of stories have been told about it with little basis of .truth. "The true story, however, is very simple : "I had been motoring with some nature-loving friends for several days. Arriving at Riverside. California, Califor-nia, late in 'he afternoon, we traveled travel-ed to Mount Rubidoux of Eas'nr morning fame. "We sat down and watched the I sunset. It was really one of the most wonderful I have ever seen in my life and I have seen even the Midnight Mid-night Pun. "That s'.m'et prulo me very happy. "That night v'-' dressing for dinner. I wondered how I could thank my friends for the delightful day they had given me could I tell I i.-.L'J.1 . - Jl. . them In some way how huppy it ha i made me. "Then I sat down andi wrote a tew verses. "It didn't take r e more tiiu minutes to write thini, and at dinner din-ner I read them--tnid my fr'encis were all pleased." a |