- Performed, as Geri Stevens, with Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66.
- Touring with Fabian and her own company, "Dodie Stevens and the Pink Shoe Laces Review."
- She is an American rock and traditional pop music singer.
- She is best known for her 1959 song "Pink Shoe Laces." It debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Stevens was one day short of 13 years old, and eventually peaked at number 3.
- The president of Crystalette Records, Carl Burns, happened to see her in a local show called Strictly Informal. He gave her the name Dodie Stevens and the song "Pink Shoe Laces". Although Stevens did not initially like her new name or the song, she recorded "Pink Shoe Laces" in 1959 for the Crystalette label, and the song was picked up by Dot for National distribution.It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling more than one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
- In addition, in the 80's, one could have hear Dodie's voice on television commercials including Sprint and Dole Pineapple.
- Her first Dot recording was "Mairzy Doats" (Dot 16002) in 1959. In the early 1960s, she had several minor hit singles on Dot, including "No" (Dot 16103) and "Yes I'm Lonesome Tonight" (Dot 16167), as well as "Merry, Merry Christmas Baby" (M. Sylvia / G. Lopez) (Dot 16166), which continues to enjoy airplay during the Christmas season.
- Dodie also toured worldwide with Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell and many more teen idols from that era.
- She also teaches singing and stage performance out of her studio in San Diego County.
- In 1969, she once again appeared in the Billboard charts, peaking at number 117 pop, number 57 country, with "Billy, I've Got to Go to Town" (an answer record to "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"), recorded under the name Geraldine Stevens.
- "Pink Shoe Laces" has appeared in the game LittleBigPlanet 3 and the television show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- While still in high school, Dodie's career skyrocketed. She appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and starred with Fabian in her first film, "Hound Dog Man", followed by "Convicts Four", starring Ben Gazzara. She also co-starred with Frankie Avalon in "Alakazam The Great", an animated feature film. She continued to record a string of singles and albums, and more television guest appearances followed, including The Bob Hope Show, and Pat Boone's Chevy Showroom.
- She toured as a backup singer with such recording artists as Loretta Lynn, Frankie Avalon, and Boz Scaggs, and for twelve years with Mac Davis.
- In the early 70's she joined Sergio Mendes and Brasil '77 touring internationally and recording three albums for A&M Records until 1973, when she left the group.
- Because of the pressure and demands of being a celebrity at such a young age, she left her career at seventeen, got married, moved to Missouri and had a baby. After four years, the marriage ended, and she returned to her career, only to discover that now as an adult, she was prey to, what is currently called the "Me Too Movement".
- Stevens married at the age of sixteen and moved to Missouri to live on a farm. A few years later, she had a daughter, Stephanie. Soon thereafter, in 1966, she ended her marriage and resumed her singing career.
- In February 2009, she was honored to join her peers in Clear Lake, Iowa at the Surf Ballroom to perform in a 5-day memorial concert, "Fifty Winters Later", in memory of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.
- Dot also released Dodie's cover of the Patsy Cline hit "I Fall to Pieces" (Dot 16200) in 1961, and a remake of "Pink Shoe Laces" (Dot 16389) in 1962.
- In the 1990s, as Geri Stevens, she toured with Fabian and her own company "Dodie Stevens and The Pink Shoe Laces Review.".
- She has performed with her daughter Stephanie and appeared at oldies concerts across the country.
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