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Songs written by dottie rambo

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Honoring The Life, Legacy & Music Of
Dottie Rambo (1934-2008)  And The Rambos

Her songs have touched millions. Her voice heard around the world; her heart an open book. Celebrating 60 years of changing lives in song and word — this is the story of Dottie Rambo.

Dottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Luttrell March 2, 1934 in Madisonville, Kentucky during the height of the Great Depression.  She grew up in poverty and developed an early affinity for country music. Dottie learned to play guitar while listening at night to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio in Nashville. At eight years of age, she started writing songs while sitting on a creek bank near her Morganfield, Kentucky home.  She had the support of her mother and father, and by age ten she was singing and playing country music cover tunes on a local radio program.

At twelve years old, she became a born-again Christian and made a commitment to write and sing Christian music. The decision turned out to be pivotal in more than one way; it did not sit well with her father who gave her an ultimatum – give up

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The prolific writer of thousands of songs, Dottie Rambo is known as the queen of gospel music. Her hymns have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sandi Patty, Connie Smith, the Oak Ridge Boys and many more. The enduring strength of her catalog is proven each week across the country as church choirs, congregations and soloists sing her words and melodies.

Born Joyce Reba Luttrell, she began writing songs at age eight, sitting by a creek near her Kentucky home. She was soon singing in churches and on local radio, and she left home at age 12, intent on singing and writing music. At 16, she married Buck Rambo, with whom she later formed the Singing Rambos with daughter Reba. Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis, author of "You Are My Sunshine," signed her to his music-publishing firm when Rambo was still a teen, and in 1968 she won a Grammy Award for her solo album It's the Soul of Me.

Although the Singing Rambos had great successes in the 1970s, including the popular children's album Down by the Creek Bank (1978), health problems kept Rambo from the

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Her songs touch millions. Her voice is heard around the world; her heart an open book. Celebrating 60 years of changing lives in song and word — this is Dottie Rambo. Kentucky is an essential ingredient in Dottie’s makeup. Its hills and streams were her playground. The rhythm of its people’s speech the early pattern for her music’s cadence. No matter where she has traveled, the pull of the bluegrass state has never been far away. Dottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Lutrell in Madisonville, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Her family next set up residence in Morganfield near relatives. The financial crunch that gripped the nation didn’t miss a single part of the country — including Dottie’s home place. But the stamina of friends and family during tough times instilled a resilience in little Dottie that would all too soon be needed in her travels far from home. Songwriting found her at a young age. The eight-year-old Dottie was out playing in the creek when words and music for her first song came bubbling forth. It startled her so much t

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