ABOUT SALLY STEVENS…

Sally Stevens was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended UCLA as a music major. While still at UCLA, Herb Albert and Lou Adler (partners at that time, before they went on to each become major names in the industry) produced her as an artist, a “single’ record on Dot, “Silver Ring” and “Maybe”, two songs she wrote while at UCLA. Obviously they never were hits, but they did get to “Number 10" on the charts in Connecticut!

Though she has continued working in music for over fifty years, she always loved writing, and has embarked upon it more seriously in recent years. She spent the last twenty-one summers at U of Iowa with the summer writing workshops. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, The OffBeat, Between The Pages Anthology: “Fairy Tales and Folklore Re-imagined”, Mockingheart Review, Raven’s Perch, Funny In Five Hundred, and the podcast "No Extra Words". She is currently working on a memoir and a longer novella length fiction.

MUSIC: Ms Stevens traveled in concert with Ray Conniff and Nat “King” Cole, and worked as a production singer in Las Vegas with bookings in 1961 and 1962, then began to work freelance in recording and commercials in Los Angeles. She sang on the Danny Kaye Variety Show two seasons,The Carol Burnett Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later on "The Love Boat’, 'Happy Days', 'Diagnosis Murder’, other TV series of the 70s and 80s and sang on commercials for poplar products of the time, including Mastercard, United Airlines, Olympia Beer, Mac Donald’s, Chevrolet, and many others.

Her first work as a singer in film scoring was in 1962, "How the West was Won”, (composer Alfred Newman) then continuing, Doctor Zhivago (composer, Maurice Jaree) and The Sound Of Music. Solo performances in film scoring include Klute, (composer Michael Small) “Dirty Harry” (Composer Lalo Schifrin) "The Secret of NIMH" (composer Jerry Goldsmith), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Burt Bacharach, composer). In 1979–82 she was the on-camera spokesperson for KBIG Radio, a Los Angeles radio/music station. She continued working as a freelance artist/session singer and vocal contractor. In her young years, she was greatly influenced by Peggy Lee. She has written lyrics for film and television projects, for Burt Bacharach, Dominic Frontiere, Don Ellis, Mike Melvoin and others, and her song, “Who Comes This Night?” (music, Dave Grusin) is included in James Taylor's first Christmas CD, recorded in 2005.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, she worked extensively in records and commercials. She has recorded with Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Country Joe and the Fish, Burt Bacharach, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Sonny & Cher, The Hollyridge Strings, Neil Diamond, Dean Martin, Tom Scott, Gabor Szabo, Hugo Montenegro, Percy Faith, Gino Vannelli, Wayne Newton, Michael Bublé, and many others. During this period, she was one of a group of singers for Los Angeles radio station KBIG, which at the time was playing the format for which the now-iHeart Media owned station is best remembered, Beautiful music. She also served as on-air promotional spokesperson for that station. She also traveled as soloist with Burt Bacharach in concert during the seventies.

Stevens is the director of the Hollywood Film Chorale. She served as choral director of the Oscars broadcasts for over 20 years, the most recent broadcast being the 2018 Academy Awards. She contracted singers and sang for the 70th Emmy Awards Broadcast and for Sturgill Simpson, Grammys Broadcast, 2018 She sings the Main Title for the Fox TV Animated shows THE SIMPSONS and FAMILY GUY, and works as needed on vocals for those shows.

Ms. Stevens is also a fine art photographer, and has had five solo Fine Art Black & White Photography exhibits in Los Angeles. Some of her photographs of film composers were included in an exhibit at Cité de la Musique, in Paris, France, 2013. You can see her composers photography online here.

She also served on the local and national boards of AFTRA for over 40 years, on the board of Screen Actors Guild for 18 years, was a National Officer of both unions, was a trustee of NARAS, and is currently a national trustee of the SAG AFTRA Health Fund and the AFTRA Retirement Fund.