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| KAYE STEVENS has just completed taping the first two shows for her Christian television series, "it's KAYE STEVENS: Friends & Family." Actress Stephanie Powers and Mickey Finn, star of "The Mickey Finn Show", starring Mickey Finn and Kathy Reily," are the featured interviews on the first two shows. Also appearing are Father John Giel and "Reba, the Wonder Dog," Father Kent Walker "The Singing Priest", and introducing "Miss Esperanza," the reddest dog on TV! Future shows include interviews with Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone and Nick Navarro, world renowned security expert and additional celebrity surprises. Call your local Christian Network TV station and inquire when "Kaye Stevens: Friends & Family," will be aired in your area. |
World famous entertainer, KAYE STEVENS, who has previously entertained with Frank Sinatra and the infamous
"Rat Pack," as well as on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Bob Hope's USO tours, is taping her new
Christian television show, “It's KAYE STEVENS, Friends and Family,” for Catholic Community Television Network
(CCTN) at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Leesburg.
The musical variety show is the first venture into non-denominational Christian entertainment for the Hollywood
singer-actress, who once starred as "Jeri Clayton" on NBC's award-winning daytime drama, "Days of Our Lives".
Since 1994, however, she has been a regular guest on Rev. Robert Schuller's famed "Hour of Power" television
show, singing to some 30-million viewers in a world-wide broadcast from California's Crystal Cathedral.
On Feb. 7th, Kaye introduced a special song on her new TV show that she wrote for Dr Schuller, after hearing
his sermon, "Lord. Show Me the Person."
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., (KAYE'S mother, Helen Stevens, always felt that her daughter would be a famous writer
because she was born the same month and day as Ernest Hemingway and the same year as Germaine Greer.)
KAYE began performing at age 5. As a teen, she formed a trio, playing drums and singing. She was discovered
in a Cherry Hills, N.J., lounge by Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, and soon after was a regular guest on
Johnny Carson's, Tonight Show.
During her illustrious career, the vivacious redhead co-starred on television with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr., Mike Douglas, Jerry Lewis, Bobby Darin, Liza Minnelli, Carol Burnett, Tom Jones, Trini Lopez,
The Temptations, Mickey Rooney, Jim Nabors. Engelbert Humperdinck and countless others. KAYE also
entertained the troops in Vietnam with Bob Hope's USO Tours.
The dynamic comedienne, who sang at Hope's funeral service last year at the special request of his wife, Delores
Hope, said years of entertaining in night clubs and casinos nearly ran her ragged, so she turned to her faith and
accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.
"I believe that our Lord's plan for me is to spread His word and amazing grace to the multitudes through my
music ministry," she avows.
KAYE has had numerous co-starring roles in films and her role as "Didi Loomis" in The New Interns garnered her
a 1962 Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She has made a number of appearances at
Caesars Palace, The MGM Grand, The Riviera, The Desert Inn and The Flamingo hotels in Las Vegas to name
a few, and has also enjoyed a career as a recording star. Her recording. "KAYE STEVENS, LIVE!" at the famed
Copacabana nightclub in New York is a show business classic. Her latest CDs, "Dear Jesus," and her healing
album. "Heal Me Lord," are available on the Agape's Label, P.O. Box 765, Lady Lake, FL 32158-0765.
Among her many honors, the town of Margate, FL, dedicated "The KAYE STEVENS Park," in her honor and she
was recently awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brewer Christian College & Graduate Schools
(FL.) for her many humanitarian deeds and outstanding work in entertaining the troops in Vietnam with Bob
Hope's USO Tour.
"It's KAYE STEVENS, Friends & Family," will bring a number of KAYE'S entertainment industry friends to her
stage, including Stephanie Powers, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Trini Lopez, Lola Falana, the renowned
"Cuban Cop," Nick Navarro, and The Mickey Finn Show. The Mickey Finn Show was taped on March 9th at the
CCTN Studios at St. Paul's Church in Leesburg, Florida.
"Rat Pack," as well as on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Bob Hope's USO tours, is taping her new
Christian television show, “It's KAYE STEVENS, Friends and Family,” for Catholic Community Television Network
(CCTN) at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Leesburg.
The musical variety show is the first venture into non-denominational Christian entertainment for the Hollywood
singer-actress, who once starred as "Jeri Clayton" on NBC's award-winning daytime drama, "Days of Our Lives".
Since 1994, however, she has been a regular guest on Rev. Robert Schuller's famed "Hour of Power" television
show, singing to some 30-million viewers in a world-wide broadcast from California's Crystal Cathedral.
On Feb. 7th, Kaye introduced a special song on her new TV show that she wrote for Dr Schuller, after hearing
his sermon, "Lord. Show Me the Person."
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., (KAYE'S mother, Helen Stevens, always felt that her daughter would be a famous writer
because she was born the same month and day as Ernest Hemingway and the same year as Germaine Greer.)
KAYE began performing at age 5. As a teen, she formed a trio, playing drums and singing. She was discovered
in a Cherry Hills, N.J., lounge by Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, and soon after was a regular guest on
Johnny Carson's, Tonight Show.
During her illustrious career, the vivacious redhead co-starred on television with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr., Mike Douglas, Jerry Lewis, Bobby Darin, Liza Minnelli, Carol Burnett, Tom Jones, Trini Lopez,
The Temptations, Mickey Rooney, Jim Nabors. Engelbert Humperdinck and countless others. KAYE also
entertained the troops in Vietnam with Bob Hope's USO Tours.
The dynamic comedienne, who sang at Hope's funeral service last year at the special request of his wife, Delores
Hope, said years of entertaining in night clubs and casinos nearly ran her ragged, so she turned to her faith and
accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.
"I believe that our Lord's plan for me is to spread His word and amazing grace to the multitudes through my
music ministry," she avows.
KAYE has had numerous co-starring roles in films and her role as "Didi Loomis" in The New Interns garnered her
a 1962 Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She has made a number of appearances at
Caesars Palace, The MGM Grand, The Riviera, The Desert Inn and The Flamingo hotels in Las Vegas to name
a few, and has also enjoyed a career as a recording star. Her recording. "KAYE STEVENS, LIVE!" at the famed
Copacabana nightclub in New York is a show business classic. Her latest CDs, "Dear Jesus," and her healing
album. "Heal Me Lord," are available on the Agape's Label, P.O. Box 765, Lady Lake, FL 32158-0765.
Among her many honors, the town of Margate, FL, dedicated "The KAYE STEVENS Park," in her honor and she
was recently awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Brewer Christian College & Graduate Schools
(FL.) for her many humanitarian deeds and outstanding work in entertaining the troops in Vietnam with Bob
Hope's USO Tour.
"It's KAYE STEVENS, Friends & Family," will bring a number of KAYE'S entertainment industry friends to her
stage, including Stephanie Powers, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Trini Lopez, Lola Falana, the renowned
"Cuban Cop," Nick Navarro, and The Mickey Finn Show. The Mickey Finn Show was taped on March 9th at the
CCTN Studios at St. Paul's Church in Leesburg, Florida.
She was slain In the Spirit by Kathryn Kuhlman at age 10.
Kathryn Louise Stephens hadn't planned on meeting God that day in Pittsburgh when she skipped school: she
just wanted to go to the movies. When she saw a crowd of people standing outside a theater, she thought she
was in the right place. Indeed, she was. From that day, “the Lord has always, always had His hand on me,” she
said.
Her family relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where she became a frequent performer at local churches, teen clubs
and talent shows. Already a superb singer and performer, she was performing to as many as 1,500 people per
show by age 12.
As a teenager, she formed her own trio and hit the road. "Wherever we went. I would call the concierge at the
hotel and asked where the nearest church was: she said. "so for 10 or 15 years, I went to different temples and
churches - Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, First Hungarian Reformed, whoever had the best choir.
She also continued to watch for Kathryn Kuhlman, the Spirit-filled evangelist who had shown her the power of
God when she was 10 years old.
Kathryn got her big break in classic show business form. Working in the lounge of the Riviera Hotel in Las
Vegas. She got word that headliner Debbie Reynolds was ill and a replacement was needed. She was asked if
she could fill in. Could she! From there she went to packing in audiences in New York, Miami and Los Angeles,
and Kathryn Louise Stephens became the star: KAYE STEVENS.
Her career has remained constant since, finding her on tour with Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, starring in such
Broadway shows as Mame, Follies, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Sweet Thursday, Where's Charlie, Destry Rides
Again, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Me, Applause, Nunsense and Gypsy. Appearing on TV variety shows and
specials, game shows and talk shows.
She became known to millions on daytime television fans as Jeri Clayton on NBC's Emmy award winning daytime
drama, ‘Days Of Our Lives.’ In that role, Kaye had the opportunity to be the first to introduce a new song to the
TV audience, "You Light Up My Life," a song that later would earn Debby Boone a Grammy Award. Viewers
responded immediately, feeling the inspiration of the lyrics. “I knew then that if I got that kind of response from
one song, I had to do an album of inspirational, motivational, spiritual-pop music," KAYE prophesied. It would be
years before her dream became reality. A trip to Vietnam with Bob Hope changed her life.
“I came back in 1965 and my life was in shambles because of what I saw," KAYE said. “I kept searching for that
indescribable "something", but all the material things didn't make me happy. There was a painful void that I filled
up with a lot of champagne."
Another life-changing experience showed her that the void could only be filled by a relationship with God.
Her husband, Paul, was dying, the result of an addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.
“I prayed to God to heal him, to not let him die,” KAYE said. "I made a covenant with God that, if He would heal
Paul. I would use my music as a ministry, as only a broken vessel could."
Paul lived, and her promise to God has indeed led to a unique ministry of encouragement for the
audiences who have always enjoyed her music and showmanship.
After that miracle, she began to perform upbeat arrangements of popular songs with uplifting lyrics, as well as
her own original music; songs like the reggae-beat, "I Am The Woman At The Well", "Lord, Show Me The
Person" and "If You Want To Know The Love Of Jesus". It was the kind of music she envisioned years earlier
when she first sang, "You Light Up My Life."
"I always wrote these songs, but I was a little shy about them," she said. "I thought I couldn't sing them in
nightclubs, but the Lord laid it on my heart. "Yes, you can." "People tell me that you can't take God into a
nightclub," she said, "But I know you can! He's wherever people need him, and he's given these people to me to
reach with his love... God lurks everywhere!"... So KAYE sang in churches by day and in casinos by night.
The Reverend Billy Graham and Dr. Robert Schuller have been instrumental in KAYE'S walk with Christ. She is
now a featured singer and "one of the family," on Dr. Schuller’s "Hour of Power" TV show from the Crystal
Cathedral in Garden Grove, California and has come to know Jesus Christ through the Billy Graham crusades.
"Kathryn" has learned that "all the diamonds, furs and expensive cars are worthless. Life is meaningless unless
you have a loving relationship with Christ!"
Kathryn Louise Stephens hadn't planned on meeting God that day in Pittsburgh when she skipped school: she
just wanted to go to the movies. When she saw a crowd of people standing outside a theater, she thought she
was in the right place. Indeed, she was. From that day, “the Lord has always, always had His hand on me,” she
said.
Her family relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, where she became a frequent performer at local churches, teen clubs
and talent shows. Already a superb singer and performer, she was performing to as many as 1,500 people per
show by age 12.
As a teenager, she formed her own trio and hit the road. "Wherever we went. I would call the concierge at the
hotel and asked where the nearest church was: she said. "so for 10 or 15 years, I went to different temples and
churches - Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, First Hungarian Reformed, whoever had the best choir.
She also continued to watch for Kathryn Kuhlman, the Spirit-filled evangelist who had shown her the power of
God when she was 10 years old.
Kathryn got her big break in classic show business form. Working in the lounge of the Riviera Hotel in Las
Vegas. She got word that headliner Debbie Reynolds was ill and a replacement was needed. She was asked if
she could fill in. Could she! From there she went to packing in audiences in New York, Miami and Los Angeles,
and Kathryn Louise Stephens became the star: KAYE STEVENS.
Her career has remained constant since, finding her on tour with Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, starring in such
Broadway shows as Mame, Follies, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Sweet Thursday, Where's Charlie, Destry Rides
Again, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Me, Applause, Nunsense and Gypsy. Appearing on TV variety shows and
specials, game shows and talk shows.
She became known to millions on daytime television fans as Jeri Clayton on NBC's Emmy award winning daytime
drama, ‘Days Of Our Lives.’ In that role, Kaye had the opportunity to be the first to introduce a new song to the
TV audience, "You Light Up My Life," a song that later would earn Debby Boone a Grammy Award. Viewers
responded immediately, feeling the inspiration of the lyrics. “I knew then that if I got that kind of response from
one song, I had to do an album of inspirational, motivational, spiritual-pop music," KAYE prophesied. It would be
years before her dream became reality. A trip to Vietnam with Bob Hope changed her life.
“I came back in 1965 and my life was in shambles because of what I saw," KAYE said. “I kept searching for that
indescribable "something", but all the material things didn't make me happy. There was a painful void that I filled
up with a lot of champagne."
Another life-changing experience showed her that the void could only be filled by a relationship with God.
Her husband, Paul, was dying, the result of an addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.
“I prayed to God to heal him, to not let him die,” KAYE said. "I made a covenant with God that, if He would heal
Paul. I would use my music as a ministry, as only a broken vessel could."
Paul lived, and her promise to God has indeed led to a unique ministry of encouragement for the
audiences who have always enjoyed her music and showmanship.
After that miracle, she began to perform upbeat arrangements of popular songs with uplifting lyrics, as well as
her own original music; songs like the reggae-beat, "I Am The Woman At The Well", "Lord, Show Me The
Person" and "If You Want To Know The Love Of Jesus". It was the kind of music she envisioned years earlier
when she first sang, "You Light Up My Life."
"I always wrote these songs, but I was a little shy about them," she said. "I thought I couldn't sing them in
nightclubs, but the Lord laid it on my heart. "Yes, you can." "People tell me that you can't take God into a
nightclub," she said, "But I know you can! He's wherever people need him, and he's given these people to me to
reach with his love... God lurks everywhere!"... So KAYE sang in churches by day and in casinos by night.
The Reverend Billy Graham and Dr. Robert Schuller have been instrumental in KAYE'S walk with Christ. She is
now a featured singer and "one of the family," on Dr. Schuller’s "Hour of Power" TV show from the Crystal
Cathedral in Garden Grove, California and has come to know Jesus Christ through the Billy Graham crusades.
"Kathryn" has learned that "all the diamonds, furs and expensive cars are worthless. Life is meaningless unless
you have a loving relationship with Christ!"
I used to drink a lot of bubbly stuff - anything with bubbles, I liked bubbles a lot!
I was working at the studios - my career had taken off ever since my lucky break at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas
when Debbie Reynolds took ill and I stepped into my first superstar engagement! I packed in fans across the
country, touring with Johnny Carson and Bob Hope and headlining in Broadway shows “Mame,” “Follies,”
“Unsinkable Molly Brown,” and more. Now I was known to millions as Jeri Clayton on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives."
On the weekends I would drive down from Hollywood to Laguna Beach and start drinking champagne from Friday
night until very early Sunday morning. On Sunday morning, I’d head back on Interstate 5 to Beverly Hills.
One Sunday morning, I was hung over - I was in very bad shape - I could barely see to drive. Cars on the I-5 were
turning off and I somehow followed them onto the off ramp. The next thing I knew, blurry eyed and with a massive
headache, I was in the middle of a crew of cars entering a drive-in theater at nine o'clock in the morning. I looked
at the screen, - nothing was happening there. But up on the snack bar roof top there was a man preaching. I
thought to myself, “This guy is nuttier than I am! Either this guy is crazy or I've got to go into rehab real soon!”
There was a woman playing an out-of-tune organ, and for some reason, I decided to stay. I promptly fell asleep - I
went right out. There was something about the drive-in, the man and the lovely lady that made me feel secure.
When I woke up almost everyone was gone and I felt better. I thought, “This is terrific - this guy is better than
aspirin!” From then on, every Sunday that I went to Laguna, I’d go back to the drive-in and fall asleep.
Not long after that, in 1964, I ended up working at a place called Melodyland Theater - right down from the Crystal
Cathedral today. It was an elegant tent shaped theater-in-the-round that sat 2,000 - 2,500 people and I was in a
very successful show called “Vive Le Girls Review,” which consisted of 25 topless girls and me. (They begged me
to wear clothes!) Mr. Blackwell made a black velvet dress for me that was very elegant, very demure and very
covered. I was doing really well - making a considerable amount of money and everything was terrific - until a
preacher in the area had the place closed down. (Now I say that he took the stale bread out of my mouth and put
the bread of life into my heart.)
Shortly after that, in 1965, I went to Vietnam with Bob Hope. What I saw there was very upsetting. I returned a
different person, severely suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. I went into a twenty year blackout. I
remember very little from ‘65 to ‘85 - it was really bad. I was divorced from my husband and became seriously
suicidal.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, left over from all the years I slept through Dr. Schuller’s sermons, I
remembered NEW HOPE - the telephone counseling service. I picked up the phone and called N-E-W-H-O-P-E. A
wonderful woman named Hilda answered the phone. I said, “Hilda, I have got to stop drinking; it’s really bad for
me!”
Right about that time, Dr. Schuller’s “Be Happy Attitudes” book came out. I joined a 12-step program. November
15, 1985, was the last day I ever took a drink. It has been over twenty years now that I haven't had a drink - no
alcohol, no bubbles, nothing, except Jesus Christ and this wonderful ministry.
I've learned three things in my more than twenty years of sobriety. What kept me sober is a six word prayer, it’s
very simple: “You are God, I am not.” The second thing is, in all the night clubs, all the casinos and places I've
been, God lurks there - He really does. And finally, I've discovered that Jesus is not local. He is everywhere -
throughout the world. We are the lucky people who get to spread His word.
I was working at the studios - my career had taken off ever since my lucky break at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas
when Debbie Reynolds took ill and I stepped into my first superstar engagement! I packed in fans across the
country, touring with Johnny Carson and Bob Hope and headlining in Broadway shows “Mame,” “Follies,”
“Unsinkable Molly Brown,” and more. Now I was known to millions as Jeri Clayton on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives."
On the weekends I would drive down from Hollywood to Laguna Beach and start drinking champagne from Friday
night until very early Sunday morning. On Sunday morning, I’d head back on Interstate 5 to Beverly Hills.
One Sunday morning, I was hung over - I was in very bad shape - I could barely see to drive. Cars on the I-5 were
turning off and I somehow followed them onto the off ramp. The next thing I knew, blurry eyed and with a massive
headache, I was in the middle of a crew of cars entering a drive-in theater at nine o'clock in the morning. I looked
at the screen, - nothing was happening there. But up on the snack bar roof top there was a man preaching. I
thought to myself, “This guy is nuttier than I am! Either this guy is crazy or I've got to go into rehab real soon!”
There was a woman playing an out-of-tune organ, and for some reason, I decided to stay. I promptly fell asleep - I
went right out. There was something about the drive-in, the man and the lovely lady that made me feel secure.
When I woke up almost everyone was gone and I felt better. I thought, “This is terrific - this guy is better than
aspirin!” From then on, every Sunday that I went to Laguna, I’d go back to the drive-in and fall asleep.
Not long after that, in 1964, I ended up working at a place called Melodyland Theater - right down from the Crystal
Cathedral today. It was an elegant tent shaped theater-in-the-round that sat 2,000 - 2,500 people and I was in a
very successful show called “Vive Le Girls Review,” which consisted of 25 topless girls and me. (They begged me
to wear clothes!) Mr. Blackwell made a black velvet dress for me that was very elegant, very demure and very
covered. I was doing really well - making a considerable amount of money and everything was terrific - until a
preacher in the area had the place closed down. (Now I say that he took the stale bread out of my mouth and put
the bread of life into my heart.)
Shortly after that, in 1965, I went to Vietnam with Bob Hope. What I saw there was very upsetting. I returned a
different person, severely suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. I went into a twenty year blackout. I
remember very little from ‘65 to ‘85 - it was really bad. I was divorced from my husband and became seriously
suicidal.
Somewhere in the back of my mind, left over from all the years I slept through Dr. Schuller’s sermons, I
remembered NEW HOPE - the telephone counseling service. I picked up the phone and called N-E-W-H-O-P-E. A
wonderful woman named Hilda answered the phone. I said, “Hilda, I have got to stop drinking; it’s really bad for
me!”
Right about that time, Dr. Schuller’s “Be Happy Attitudes” book came out. I joined a 12-step program. November
15, 1985, was the last day I ever took a drink. It has been over twenty years now that I haven't had a drink - no
alcohol, no bubbles, nothing, except Jesus Christ and this wonderful ministry.
I've learned three things in my more than twenty years of sobriety. What kept me sober is a six word prayer, it’s
very simple: “You are God, I am not.” The second thing is, in all the night clubs, all the casinos and places I've
been, God lurks there - He really does. And finally, I've discovered that Jesus is not local. He is everywhere -
throughout the world. We are the lucky people who get to spread His word.
| Any Questions??? Comments? Want to Reach Kaye? Email: KayeStevens@embarqmail.com |
