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ON THE ROAD AGAIN

With the nation at peace and our family back together again, The Le Fevre Trio expanded. The children—Pierce,

Meurice, Andrea, and eventually me—joined in and the group became simply The Le Fevres. Daddy insisted on it.

He made all his kids sing, whether they were talented or not. I don’t think he believed God would give him a child

who couldn’t sing. The first time I sang publicly at 5 years old, I was so little I had to stand on the piano bench to

reach the microphone!

Even with some of us singing on tiptoe, The Le Fevres’ music found an audience. In the 1950s, we began

appearing on local TV. Videotape hadn’t yet been invented so we broadcast every show live. After performing the

show in Atlanta, our family traveled each week to do shows in Augusta, Macon, Columbus, and Savannah,

Georgia. Friday and Saturday nights we sang concerts; then we started the whole process over again on Sunday.

When video was introduced, we began taping the broadcasts at Ted Turner’s very first TV station in Atlanta.

From there, copies of the tapes went out to 126 cities, one at a time, to make our show the first syndicated

Christian TV show in the world! Courtesy of Martha White Flour Company, it also became the first Christian

show to have national sponsorship. Eventually, the show grew to include three other gospel groups and became

The Gospel Singing Caravan with my mom as the MC.

HEALING, HOLINESS, AND HYPOCRISY

The Le Fevres, launched into the spotlight through television, soon became famous in Southern Gospel music.

With my mom well on her way to becoming the queen of the genre, our family performed in some of the largest

auditoriums and arenas in the country.

We also sang for some of the biggest revival crusades and TV evangelists of the 1950s. During those years of the

great healing revival, I watched with utter amazement as God worked mighty miracles through such men as Oral

Roberts, A.A. Allen, Rex Humbard, and Jack Coe. Afterward, laughing and playing backstage with their children,

I never suspected I’d someday need such a miracle myself.

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