Dottie Rambo

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". Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Sandi Patty, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and George Jones are among those who have recorded Rambo's songs. She also hosted a TV series on TBN that ran as their #2-rated show for six years, “The Dottie Rambo Magazine”. In 1991 Dottie was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and in 1997 the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame. In 2000, Rambo was awarded the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006 she was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. In 2007, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter Association's Hall of Fame, becoming only the 10th female ever inducted. In 2008, she was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. On May 11, 2008, while on her tour bus headed to Texas for a Mother's Day concert, it crashed in Mt. Vernon, Missouri, killing her instantly.