Joyce
"Dottie"
Rambo, an
influential
gospel
singer and
songwriter,
died early
Sunday when
her tour bus
ran off a
highway and
struck an
embankment.
She was 74.
Rambo, who
learned to
play guitar
as a girl
while
listening to
the Grand
Ole Opry on
the radio,
has hundreds
of published
songs,
including
gospel
classics
such as "He
Looked
Beyond My
Fault and
Saw My Need"
and the 1982
Gospel Music
Assn. song
of the year,
"We Shall
Behold Him."
Rambo was
inducted
into the
Nashville
Songwriters
Hall of Fame
last year
and the
Kentucky
Music Hall
of Fame in
2006.
Elvis
Presley
recorded her
composition
"If That
Isn't Love"
which was
first
released on
the "Good
Times" album
in 1973.
