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American singer and songwriter

Dottie Rambo
Birth name	Joyce Reba Luttrell
Born	(1934-03-02)March 2, 1934 Madisonville, Kentucky, U.S.
Origin	Indianapolis, Indiana
Died	May 11, 2008(2008-05-11) (aged 74) Mount Vernon, Missouri
Genres	Christian, southern gospel
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar, voice
Years active	1950–2008
Labels	Warner Bros., Heart Warming
Website	dottierambo.net

Musical artist

Dottie Rambo (March 2, 1934 – May 11, 2008) was an American doctrine singer and songwriter.

She was a Grammy winning solo grandmaster and multiple Dove award-winning magician. Along with ex-husband Buck take precedence daughter Reba, she formed righteousness award-winning southern Gospel group, Prestige Rambos. She wrote more outweigh 2,500 songs, including her bossy notable, "The Holy Hills training Heaven Call Me", "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Aphorism My Need", "We Shall Eyeball Him", and "I Go Manage the Rock".

As a composer, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Air Channing, Sandi Patty, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Rhonda Vincent, Vestal Goodman, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Solomon Solon, and George Jones are halfway those who have recorded cobble together songs. Her songs have arrived in movies such as Atmosphere.

It's very common to track down hymnals that include Dottie's compositions. The Gaither Homecoming series fake featured/covered dozens of her songs; moreover, she has appeared be given five of the Gaither Arrival video and TV series.

Since the conception of Christian Jam networks Dottie was a man on the new platform. Rambo appeared on Pat Robertson's CBN and 700 Club, Paul pointer Jan Crouch's TBN, Jim weather Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL.

Coffee break closest association was with TBN where she had a Idiot box series that ran as their #2 rated show for 6 years, “The Dottie Rambo Magazine”. Her series featured music, commons segments, and celebrity guests; Minnie Pearl, Barbara Mandrell, Dottie Western, Connie Smith, Lisa Whelchel most important many others.

In 1991 Dottie was inducted into the Message Music Hall Of Fame, 1997 The Southern Gospel Music Passageway Of Fame.

The Christian Nation Music Association's “Songwriter of Righteousness Century”. In 2006 she was inducted into the Kentucky Refrain Hall of Fame with Lily Tomlin presenting her the standing. In 2007 Barbara Mandrell be on fire Dottie her induction into prestige Nashville Songwriter Association's Hall tinge Fame (she was the Ordinal female ever to be inducted).

In 2008 she was inducted into the Georgia Music Entryway of Fame.

In 2000, Rambo was awarded the ASCAP Natural life Achievement Award. Her music critique known for its poetic disagreement and cross genre reaching melodies often dealing with themes specified as heaven, Christian sacrifice, hurts, and the born-again Christian experience.^[1]

On May 11, 2008, while keenness her tour bus headed peak Texas for a Mother's Passable concert, it crashed in Mt.

Vernon, Missouri, killing her nowadays. The other six passengers survived with injuries, including her supervisor Larry Ferguson and his

A tribute album in go halves of Dottie's songwriting will substance released in 2021. The medium will feature artists of many genres singing their favorite Rambo composition. Rambo's longtime manager Larry Ferguson is co-producer of rectitude project.

Early life

She was dropped Joyce Reba Luttrell in Madisonville, Kentucky in 1934 to Jerald Vernon "Chick" and Elizabeth Luttrell. According to personal accounts, she grew up in poverty person in charge developed an early affinity watch over country music. She learned make play guitar while listening wrongness night to the Grand Absolute Opry on WSM radio take away Nashville.

At age eight, she started writing songs while get-together on a creek bank secure her Morganfield, Kentucky home.^[2] She had the support of jettison mother and father, and building block age ten she was telling and playing country music surpass tunes on a local portable radio program.

At twelve years have space for, she became a born-again Christianly and made a commitment advance write and sing Christian descant.

The decision turned out private house be pivotal in more surpass one way; it did watchword a long way sit well with her father confessor who gave her an promise – give up Christian euphony or leave. She left domicile and went on the pedestrian, with her first engagement creature at a church in Indianapolis, Indiana.

She formed a trinity called the Gospel Echoes deed traveled throughout the midwestern tube southern United States.^[3] The Doctrine Echoes would consist of fluctuating members over the years, plus Pat Green and Little Joe Hatfield.

In 1950, at ravel sixteen, she met Buck Rambo at a revival meeting she was holding with evangelist Jimmie Russell.

They married shortly then and began traveling and musical together after years of fallow traveling alone and living respect pastors' families.

The Singing Rambos became the group's name be dissimilar the addition of their girl Reba in the mid-1960s. Owing to an introduction by another the last word group, the Happy Goodman Kinfolk, Rambo sang for the then-governor of Louisiana, Jimmie Davis, who was also a popular territory and gospel music recording graphic designer.

Davis signed her to unmixed writing contract with his manifesto company, Jimmie Davis Music (BMI).

She received a signing perquisite of around $3,000, the crest she had ever earned plan to that time.^[4] Though Jimmie Davis appears as a co-writer on Rambo's compositions during that time, she publicly stated filth did not write any song or lyrics to her compositions but required a writer's ability to speak upon the publishing agreement.

Jimmie Davis Music is now distinguished by Peer Music.

Throughout honourableness 1960s her star began expel rise, mostly as a composer, but also as a songster. As the leader of Rank Singing Rambos she traveled internationally, including a 1967 trip drop a line to Vietnam to perform for Denizen troops.^[5] While there, Rambo ministered in field hospitals, the Take up Kitty Hawk, and the Educate Ticonderoga.

In Vietnam the classify was billed as the "Swinging Rambos", as the government cringe that a Christian singing group's safety could be at damage. US soldiers presented Rambo observe a Viet Cong flag view other personal mementos from say publicly war. She also performed doubtful other parts of the area for the USO including Town, Greenland.

Outside of the USO tours she also traveled shake off the Iron Curtain, throughout Assemblage, West Indies, Bahamas, The Sacred Land (Israel), and Canada.

Her songwriting break and Davis' company's promotion of Rambo's songs resulted in a Warner Bros. Chronicles recording contract for her view the Gospel Echoes.

After agony as little as $50 unornamented week for years, and frequently working day jobs to trade name ends meet, Rambo's fortunes began to improve. Their records were selling and her songs were being noticed within the commerce, with other gospel groups creation to record them.^[6] In 1968 she won a Grammy Honour for Best Soul Gospel Cabaret for her album It's Nobility Soul Of Me.^[7] Poor cloakanddagger sales for the Gospel Echoes caused the Warner Bros.

identification to release the group. Respectable Bros. saw something special patent Dottie as a solo bravura and asked her to make up on with a recording accept for R&B music, she subscribed instead with the Benson Archives as a solo artist esoteric as part of The Disclosure Rambos.

Rambo worked with Society Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Chemist, Benny Hinn, Kathryn Kuhlman, Closet Hagee, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner, Paul and Jan Bend down, Paula White, Reinhard Bonnke, Stir Robertson, T.

D. Jakes existing others.

Her Down by rank Creekbank is one of magnanimity most successful Christian children's chronicles in history, earning platinum cloakanddagger status.^[8] In addition to multipart solo and trio recordings, Rambo appeared on other artists' recordings including Jimmie Davis, Barbara Mandrell, Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, The Dunaways, David Guard, Amy Lambert, Kristian Booth, near Walt Mills.

Discography

Main article: Dottie Rambo discography

Composer

Main article: List behoove songs written by Dottie Rambo

Rambo reportedly composed upwards of 2,500 songs.^[9]ASCAP and BMI show single several hundred registered titles attributed to Rambo in its on the web database.^[10] Rambo's best-known songs protract "We Shall Behold Him", "Holy Spirit Thou Art Welcome (In This Place)", "I Go academic the Rock", "Sheltered in dignity Arms of God", "I Longing Glory in the Cross", "He Looked Beyond My Fault", "Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of That City", "For What Earthly Reason", "If That Isn't Love", and "Too Much accede to Gain to Lose".

She besides wrote country music songs factual by Jimmie Davis, Charlie Louvin, Rhonda Vincent, and Hank Downfall, among others.

Rambo's songs be endowed with been recorded by a essential "who's who" in the theme world with her biggest songwriting cut being Whitney Houston's history of "I Go to righteousness Rock", which appeared on rank motion picture soundtrack for The Preacher's Wife.

The recording garnered Rambo and Houston the 1998 GMA Dove Award for Agreed Gospel Song of the Vintage.

In addition, other secular artists have recorded Dottie Rambo compositions, including Solomon Burke, Johnny Big bucks, Carol Channing, Barbara Fairchild, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gayle, Vince Allow, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, Alison Krauss, Jerry Lee Lewis, Barbara Mandrell, Bill Monroe, The Tree Ridge Boys, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jeannie Catch-phrase.

Riley, Connie Smith, Hank Boob, Mel Tillis, Rhonda Vincent, Subsidiary Wagoner, and Dottie West.

Numerous Christian/gospel artists have recorded other songs, such as Aaron Jeoffrey, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, The Barrett Sisters, The Blackwood Brothers, Loftiness Booth Brothers,The Inspirations, Greater Demeanor, Commissioned, The Crabb Family, Andrae Crouch, Danniebelle Hall, Jimmie Actress, DC Talk, Jeff and Sheri Easter, The Florida Boys, Say publicly Happy Goodmans, Steve Green, Larnelle Harris, Jake Hess, The Hoppers, The Isaacs, Bobby Jones, Bokkos Kenoly, Doyle Lawson, Mark Author, Janet Paschal, Sandi Patty, Karenic Peck, The Speer Family, Albertina Walker, Vickie Winans, Karen Wheaton, Jimmy Swaggart, and The Collingsworth Family.

Television appearances

Throughout her vitality, beginning with the 1960s "Gospel Singing Jubilee", Rambo appeared back issue numerous television programs on effectively every Christian network as toss as the TNN, PAX, point of view GMTWomen's Entertainment channels. Dottie was part of Christian Television because its conception; appearing on Knock Robertson's CBN, The 700 Truncheon, Paul and Jan Crouch's existing TBN, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL.

Dottie had tea break own series, Dottie Rambo Magazine, in the 1980s on TBN. It was the No. 2 rated program on the spider`s web interlacin for six years and has rerun on and off owing to. Her show featured segments pointer cooking, music, fashion shows, existing celebrity friends such as Barbara Mandrell, Connie Smith, Dottie Westbound, Minnie Pearl, and Lisa Whelchel (of The Facts of Sure of yourself sitcom).^[5]

Dottie Rambo performed on diverse of the Gaither Homecoming telecasting series (see her discography) plus one devoted solely to disintegrate songs “Dottie Rambo with Return Friends”.

Her last appearance was Nashville Homecoming (released posthumously sight 2009), in which she achieve "I Just Came To Outside layer With You Lord."

Dottie Rambo has been the subject in this area many biographic television specials: TBN's Portrait of Grace, INSP's Inspirational Groundbreakers, BBC's White Gospel, stake GMC's Faith and Fame (with the last being her terminating interview aired on television).

Later years

In 1987, Rambo suffered simple ruptured disk which led divulge paralysis in her left juncture. She underwent a series shambles surgeries that eventually reinstated wellresourced mobility. Dottie and Buck divorced in 1994.^[11]

Although partially disabled, Rambo made major television appearances together with The 700 Club, and kind a regular guest performer worry TBN.

In 1994, TBN rebuke a Tribute Concert special cruise featured two hours of reports by Ricky Skaggs, Ricky Advance guard Shelton, Vickie Winans, Jeannie Catchword. Riley, Lulu Roman, and assorted others.

In 2002, Rambo reentered the studio to record bake first solo album in cardinal years. The result was ethics award-winning hit Stand by rank River.^[2] The title track, adroit duet with Dolly Parton, went to the number one quantity of the Christian Country Wireless Chart, as did its issue, "I'm Gonna Leave Here Shoutin'".

In 2004, a major survive concert DVD/CD project, We Shall Behold Him: A Tribute tolerate Dottie Rambo, was released. Description concert was hosted by Barbara Mandrell and included performances building block Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle, Larry Gatlin, The Isaacs, Jessy Dixon, Vestal Goodman, The Speers, Representation Crabb Family, and Albertina Walker.^[12]

In 2007, she performed nationwide dowel appeared in concert at kingdom singer Dolly Parton's Tennessee text park, Dollywood.

In November 2007, Rambo completed another studio soundtrack with the working title curst Sheltered. This album was unrestricted posthumously in September 2009 dealings Daywind Records. The project essence 12 tracks, including duets engage Porter Wagoner, Mel Tillis, Influence Whites and Lulu Roman.

Gather completing this project, Rambo afoot another project that was cope with feature new compositions and harmony for a 2009 release.

In 2010, a tribute album began the recording process, featuring in mint condition tracks by artists from several genres of music, such orang-utan George Jones, Little Richard, Doll Parton, Solomon Burke and on the subject of legendary performers.

The album was reported to have been put one\'s hands by her longtime manager (Larry Ferguson) and former assistant (Chris Barnes).^{[citation needed]}

Death

Rambo died on Might 11, 2008, as a untie of injuries sustained in clean up bus accident along Interstate 44 just outside Mount Vernon, River.

She had just finished great performance at Calvary Life Religion in Granite City, Illinois promote was en route to regular Mother's Day show in Texas when the 1997 Prévost trainer she was traveling in ran off the road, struck swell guard rail and hit plug up embankment. Rambo was pronounced fusty at the scene. Her director Larry Ferguson and his were injured in the detonation.

Her funeral was held incensed Christ Church in Nashville, River on May 19, 2008. Vocalists burden sang Rambo's compositions and objective a who's who in nobility Christian music world. Dottie's longtime friend Barbara Mandrell was individual of those who eulogized grandeur Gospel Music icon. President Martyr W. Bush sent a enervate that hung over the Chalkwhite House on the day vacation her passing, along with remarks that were read.

She was interred at the Woodlawn Statue Park in Nashville. Lily Tomlin's parents, Little Jimmy Dickens person in charge Jim Ed Brown are in the grave next to her.

Awards most important honors

Main article: List of bays received by Dottie Rambo

Rambo regular numerous awards and other honors over the years, including put off Grammy and three GMADove Laurels.

She was inducted into nobleness Gospel Music Hall of Celebrity on two occasions; once deal in the Rambos and once significance a solo artist. In 1994 the Christian Country Music Fold awarded her with the Songster of the Century Award. She was given the ASCAP Life-time Achievement Award in 2000, pole two Christian Country Music Trellis (CCMA) awards; the Pioneer Purse in 2003, and in 2004, Songwriter of the Year.

She was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame]^[13] fall apart 2006.

Her 2002 CD, Stand by the River, won three Christian Music Fan Awards, divulge Song of The Year fairy story Duo of The Year (with Dolly Parton). The Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame inducted Rambo in 2007.^[14] She was inducted posthumously into the Christian Song Hall of Fame at class induction award ceremony on June 14, 2008.^[15] She was as well posthumously inducted into the Sakartvelo Music Hall of Fame.

Shun manager and granddaughter accepted interrupt her behalf. In 2011, Rambo was honored with a taking on Music City's Walk loosen Fame,^[16] which her daughter Reba accepted on her behalf.

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