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Rambo, Dottie
Singer, songwriter
As a solo artist and as a member of her family group the Rambos, Dottie Rambo has exerted a fundamental influence on the development of modern Southern Gospel music. Rambo has released award-winning recordings and appeared on numerous television programs and video recordings. Yet her greatest impact has been as a songwriter, with several major gospel classics among her more than 2,500 published compositions. According to her Kentucky Music Museum Hall of Fame biography, "Dottie ranks with the beloved Fanny Crosby [the nineteenth-century composer of "Blessed Assurance" and other standard hymns] among the women who have had the greatest impact in the field of gospel music."
Dottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Lutrell in Madison-ville, Kentucky, on March 2, 1934. Her family suffered hard times during the Great Depression, and moved several times between towns and failing farms. In her composition "Mama Always Had a Song to Sing," she wrote that "I've seen my daddy tracking swamp rabbit in our back holler/More than once that was all we had to eat,"
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The Death of Dottie Rambo, Southern Gospel Legend
Southern Gospel legend Dottie Rambo died on Mother's Day Sunday, May 11, 2008 when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment in Missouri. Dottie was on her way to North Richland Hills, Texas to perform a Mother's Day show with Lulu Roman & Naomi Sego. Dottie was 74 at the time of her death and had spent 62 years of her life writing music and singing about her Savior.
Seven other people on the bus, including her manager Larry Ferguson and his wife and two children, were injured in the accident. They were hospitalized in Springfield, Missouri with moderate to severe injuries, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. Representatives from her recording label confirmed that Dottie was asleep at the time of the accident.
The Early Years of Dottie Rambo
Dottie Rambo, born Joyce Reba Lutrell in Madison, Kentucky on March 2, 1934, started writing songs at the age of 8 while sitting by a creek near her family home. By age 10 she was playing guitar and singing on local country radio. Her father dreamed
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Dottie Rambo
American singer and songwriter
Dottie Rambo | |
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| 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 gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy winning solo artist and multiple Dove award-winning artist. Along with ex-husband Buck and daughter Reba, she formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos. She wrote more than 2,500 songs, including her most notable, "The Holy Hills of Heaven Call Me", "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need", "We Shall Behold Him", and "I Go To the Rock".
As a songwriter, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Carol Channing, Sandi Patty, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Rhonda Vincent
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