2 Quotes & Sayings By Kay Lenz
Kay Lenz was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on March 2, 1936. Her first job was at the age of fifteen as a baby sitter for the family of the mother of singer Tony Bennett. She married her first husband, Frank Lenz, a decade later and gave birth to their son David two years after that
In her early twenties she was a radio disc jockey and worked as a singer in nightclubs across the Midwest. She was a member of the pioneering rockabilly group The Crickets. In 1958, she signed a contract with Capitol Records and released her first solo single "My Boy Lollipop." It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.
She followed it up with "Don't Make Me Over" and "I Don't Want to Play House" before signing with Mercury Records to record six additional singles between 1959 and 1961. In 1963, she retired from music and became a housewife in California, where she raised two children and worked as a secretary. In 1968, she married William L.
Lenz and became a homemaker until his death in 1994. After he died, she returned to show business as a TV actress in several made-for-television movies from 1996 through 2000. She also began writing poetry and short stories which have been published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, Writer's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Woman's Day, Glamour, Lucky Romance Novelist Magazine and Redbook Magazine as well as in anthologies such as A Woman's Touch Anthology: Writers on How Their Lives Have Changed Through Writing (2005) and All You've Got to Do Is Love Me: Love Story Anthology (2007).