After the end of World War II, she met Tommy Roberts, who had been a featured soloist in the Cleveland-based Wings Over Jordan Choir since its 1935 inception.
[6] Tommy recruited Evelyn to help compose material for the a cappella spiritual choir at the start of a postwar tour,[7] but was fired several months later by Rev.
[3] In the late 1950s, she reformed the Evelyn Freeman Orchestra with new members, and it backed such singers as Peggy Lee and Frankie Laine in Las Vegas.
She continued to work as a composer and arranger for television, as well as for performers including Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Louis Prima,[3] and ran her own club, "The Upstairs" on Sunset Strip.
With her husband, Tommy Roberts, she also established The Young Saints Scholarships Foundation, a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1967,[1] with the aim of providing free training in singing, dance, drama, television work and associated skills for young people, aged between 5 and 21, in South Central Los Angeles.