Eliza Doyle Smith

Eliza Ann Doyle was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Michael Doyle and Elizabeth Doyle. Her parents were both born in Ireland. She studied music in Cologne.

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Smith wrote operettas and poetry as a young woman. She owned and ran a sheet-music publishing company, based in Chicago.[https://books.google.com/books?id=v5VQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA17-PA50 "Policy of Writing Songs to Fit Every American Home is Secret of Chicago Publisher's Success"] The Music Trades 63 (April 29, 1922): 30.{{Cite news |date=1919-11-25 |title=By Our Irish Reporter: 'The Crippled Songbird'; Adventurer Interviews Crippled Girl |pages=3 |work=Suburbanite Economist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121570938/by-our-irish-reporter-the-crippled/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |via=Newspapers.com}} She published her own songs, and works by other songwriters, including Harlan TarbellTarbell, Harlan and Frederick G. Johnson, [https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/21068/JAC003155.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y "Jonah"] (sheet music published in 1922 by Eliza Doyle Smith). {{Cite journal |date=June 10, 1922 |title='Jonah' New Eliza Doyle Smith Number |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5VQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA25-PA153 |journal=The Music Trades |volume=63 |pages=153}} and John Loftus.{{Cite web |last=Loftus |first=John |date=1922 |title=I'd give it all for you / words & music by John Loftus. |url=https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/68747 |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Loftus |first=John |date=1923-01-01 |title=Misty Moon |url=https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cht-sheet-music/8217 |journal=Mississippi State University Libraries, Sheet Music Collection}} "When I decided to go into the popular song writing I decided that success would come if I wrote songs fit to enter American homes but with the pep that modern youth demands and then let the world know of my goods by insistent advertising," she explained in a 1922 interview.

Unless otherwise specified, titles below are songs written and composed by Smith.

• "When Uncle Sam Caught the Kaiser" (1917, a broadside poem)Smith, Eliza Doyle, [https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:289492/ "'When Uncle Sam caught the Kaiser'"] (1917) Harris Broadsides, Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.
• "United States Democracy March" (1918){{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Eliza Doyle |title=097.103 - United States Democracy March. A Patriotic Song for America |url=https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/097/103 |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Levy Music Collection}}
• "In Candy Land With You" (1919)
• "My Days Remember" (1919){{Cite journal |date=February 14, 1920 |title=Chicago Capitulates to Famous Recitalists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA15-PA26 |journal=Musical America |volume=31 |pages=26}}{{Cite journal |date=July 23, 1920 |title=Eileen Donnelly Presents Songs by the Chicago Composer, Eliza Doyle Smith |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2lFAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA3-PA4 |journal=Music News |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=4}}
• "Sweet Norah Daly" (1919){{Cite journal |date=June 3, 1922 |title='Sweet Norah Daly' Wins Favor Throughout Country |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5VQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA24-PA36 |journal=Music Trades |volume=63 |pages=36}}
• "Stop Looking at Me!" (1919) Smith, Eliza Doyle. [https://library.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/ps1919_stop.pdf "Stop Looking at Me!"] (sheet music), Indiana State University Libraries.
• "Little Darling Marguerite" (1919, arranged by Harry L. Alford){{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Eliza Doyle |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/1000 |title=Little Darling Marguerite |last2=Smith |first2=Eliza Doyle |date=1919 |publisher=Eliza Doyle Smith |language=en}}
• "O Wonderful Son of Life" (1920){{Cite journal |date=November 1920 |title=Eliza Doyle Smith, Chicago, Ill. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SANMAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA14-PA28 |journal=The Musician |volume=25 |pages=28}}
• "Dance Me On Your Knee" (1920){{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Eliza Doyle |url=http://archive.org/details/dancemeonyourkne00smit |title=Dance me on your knee |date=1920 |publisher=Chicago, Ill. : Eliza Doyle Smith |others=Harold B. Lee Library}}
• "Tea Rose" (1922, with John Loftus){{Cite web |title=41.09.15 - Music, Sheet (43712) - Artifacts from our Collection |url=https://www.historical.waseca.mn.us/collection/artifacts?i=43712 |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Waseca County History Center}}
• "Love's Beautiful Song" (1922, with Charles Kovacs){{Cite journal |date=April 8, 1922 |title=Chicago Publisher Announces New Song |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5VQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Eliza+Doyle+Smith%22&pg=RA14-PA46 |journal=Music Trades |volume=63 |issue=15 |pages=46}}

Eliza Doyle married Edgar Poe Smith. They had two daughters, Pauline and Marguerite.{{Cite news |date=1920-04-11 |title=A Visitor: Eliza Doyle Smith |pages=18 |work=Omaha Daily Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121554927/a-visitor-eliza-doyle-smith/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1920-05-09 |title=Attractive Groups |pages=13 |work=Omaha Daily Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121570806/attractive-groups/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |via=Newspapers.com}} She died in 1932, in Oak Park, Illinois, at the age of 73.{{Cite news |date=1932-10-17 |title=Obituary for Elizabeth Ann Smith |pages=24 |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121575702/obituary-for-elizabeth-ann-smith/ |access-date=2023-03-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}

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Category:1859 births

Category:1932 deaths

Category:Musicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Category:American composers

Category:American women songwriters

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