A Young Boy's Prayer- Liner Notes -

Steve Sanders is just such a boy - with one big exception. He's also a star.

And maybe the very reason he's a star is this downright, down-home wholesomeness.

Steve was born in a small town in Georgia, less than fifteen years ago...one of three children in a closely knit, church-going family.

There was always music in the Sanders household (Steve's father plays the piano) and the youngster began singing almost as soon as he began talking.

By the time Steve was six, he was appearing with his father at Gospel concerts throughout the South. In fact, often as not, it was young Steve's enthusiasm that inspired the audience to join right in on the hymn singing.

Each year brought Steve to a wider and wider public. At the same time, he was going to grade school, building model airplanes, hunting with his dogs, doing - in short - just about everything a typical boys does at that age.

But of all the concerts he gave during those years, one stands out in particular: an appearance at Watauga Lake, Tennessee, with Governor Frank Clement in the audience.

Thus, when the thirteen-year-old Steve came to New York to try out for a Broadway show, he carried a personal letter of recommendation from the Tennessee Governor himself. The audition was for the lead in "The Yearling" - a musical version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's heart-warming novel of the South. Some 10,000 boys applied for the part. Over 1,000 boys were tested - among them, many experienced young actors. Yet Steve won the coveted part on his very first audition.

Has stardom changed Steve Sanders? Not at all. He's still studying hard at school. Still an outdoor boy who loves to hunt, fish and rough-house with his hound dogs (they number fifteen, to his mother's chagrin!). And he still prefers the music of the old-time religion to the new-fangled rock 'n shock.

Any doubts? Then just listen, as Steve lifts his clear boyish voice in twelve songs of prayer and praise.

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