![]() ![]() They were among the first non-quartet singers to sing at the Gospel Quartet Convention. Within the span of a few more years The Rambos went from $50 offerings for singing in churches to singing at the largest concert dates across the country. Their hearts were in Gospel music and couldn’t be budged. In the middle of it, Warner’s executives didn’t know what to do with Christian music and suggested that the group move to folk (which the label did with Peter, Paul and Mary) and that Dottie consider doing rhythm and blues. ![]() During this time Warner Brothers Records signed Dottie and The Gospel Echoes, to a two-record deal. Once Jimmy Davis Music started promoting Dottie Rambo songs in the early 1960s, things would never be the same. It was more money than she had ever seen. Governor Davis paid Dottie around three-thousand dollars to publish her songs. Governor Davis flew her and her family to the governor's mansion so that she could sing her songs for him. One of her songs caught the attention of then-governor of Louisiana, Jimmy Davis. She joined the group in 1964 and their name was changed to "The Singing Rambos" and later "The Rambos.” They married shortly thereafter, eventually formed a trio called “The Gospel Echoes” and began traveling throughout the mid-western and southern United States. In 1950, at age sixteen, she met Buck Rambo at a revival meeting. She traveled by Greyhound bus from one church to another, returning home for Christmas and her birthday. She left home and went on the road, with her first engagement being at a church in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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 Christian music or leave. 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.Īt twelve years old, she became a born-again Christian and made a commitment to write and sing Christian music. At eight years of age, she started writing songs while sitting on a creek bank near her Morganfield, Kentucky home. Dottie learned to play guitar while listening at night to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM radio in Nashville. She grew up in poverty and developed an early affinity for country music. Celebrating 60 years of changing lives in song and word - this is the story of Dottie Rambo.ĭottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Luttrell Main Madisonville, Kentucky during the height of the Great Depression. Her voice heard around the world her heart an open book.
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