Dottie Rambo

Biography

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, Vestal Goodman, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Solomon Burke, and George Jones are among those who have recorded her songs. Her songs have appeared in movies such as Undertow. It's very common to find hymnals that include Dottie's compositions. The Gaither Homecoming series have featured/covered dozens of her songs; moreover, she has appeared in five of the Gaither Homecoming video and TV series. Since the conception of Christian Television networks Dottie was a fixture on the new platform. Rambo appeared on Pat Robertson's CBN and 700 Club, Paul and Jan Crouch's TBN, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL. Her closest association was with TBN where she had a TV series that ran as their #2 rated show for 6 years, “The Dottie Rambo Magazine”. Her series featured music, cooking segments, and celebrity guests; Minnie Pearl, Barbara Mandrell, Dottie West, Connie Smith, Lisa Whelchel and many others. In 1991 Dottie was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame, 1997 The Southern Gospel Music Hall Of Fame. The Christian Country Music Association's “Songwriter of The Century”. In 2006 she was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame with Lily Tomlin presenting her the honor. In 2007 Barbara Mandrell presented Dottie her induction into the Nashville Songwriter Association's Hall of Fame (she was the 10th female ever to be inducted). In 2008 she was inducted into the Georgia Music

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

1,226 releases · 194 albums · active 1962–2026

  • Performance · 1,765
  • Other credits · 73
  • Production · 2

Studios: Crusade Studios · Benson Sound Studio · Hilltop Recording Studios · Mark Five Studios

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