page_title: Mary Hale Woolsey
section_title: Other contributions
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Hale Woolsey / Career / Other contributions
caption_attribution_description: English: Vevedeen Hill (back left), Mary Hale Woolsey (back right), Hannah Case Stewart (front left), Elizabeth Evanh (front right), Becky Hill (baby, 7 months old). 5 generations of family.
context_page_description: Mary Hale Woolsey was an American songwriter and lyricist. She is most noted for the lyrics she wrote for "When It's Springtime in the Rockies".
context_section_description: During the depression, Woolsey continued to write songs. Woolsey wrote the libretto for an operetta for children. The operetta was called The Giant's Garden and feature music by Seldon N. Heaps.
  Woolsey also wrote the words to several other songs, including "When the Cottonwoods are Yellow" and "By the Silv'ry Colorado". She also compiled a book of 15 waltz songs that was called Songs that Reach the Heart. She later wrote "Colorado Skies" which Taggart contributed to. They formed the Taggart-Woolsey-Brown Publishing Company in Salt Lake City.
  Woolsey worked with Glen Spencer, a radio and recording director. Spencer began an all-girl musical group for a radio show, and Woolsey wrote the opening lines. Ten of her song lyrics were used by Spencer. Four of her lyrics were used by the composer Will Livernas. For her musical contributions she became a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Among her other published works are the text to "I Have a Garden, A Lovely Garden" and "When O'er the Valley the Shadows are Gray".
  As well as song lyrics, Woolsey wrote fiction books. She also sold stories to magazines, and for some time worked with a newspaper in Hollywood.
  Woolsey died on December 6, 1969 in Santa Monica, California. She was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
caption: Five generations of Woolsey's family: Vevedeen Hill (back left), Mary Hale Woolsey (back right), Hannah Case Stewart (front left), Elizabeth Evanh (front right), Becky Hill (baby, 7 months old)
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