Buck & Dottie Rambo - Gospel Echoes -Draw Me Near LP (V. Rare) Rambos

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Vinyl is Good Plus - a used copy, will have surface noise, scratches, crackling, pops and may skip on one or more tracks (on one side).

You are viewing one of the earliest albums of the trio which would eventually evolve to be one of the most influential Southern gospel groups of all time…THE Rambos. On this record you have a young Shirley Bivins-Cohron alongside Buck and Dottie Rambo. Shirley was responsible for most of the trio’s musical arrangements. She later left the Echoes and became a member of a quartet, The Apostolic Echoes before joining another The Gospel Keys (consisting of Will and Shirley alongside Tim and Dixie McKeithen.)

Will and Shirley’s son, Anthony, currently pastors a United Pentecostal church, the Rock Church in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Singing Rambos

Apostlic & Pentecostal roots

Dottie’s blind maternal grandfather Isaiah Burton and her mother Elizabeth were “tongue talking” Holy Ghost filled “Bapticostal” people and were the seminal influences in her early life.

Buck Rambo first laid eyes on Dottie in 1948 at a revival service in a small apostolic church in Rabbit Ridge, Kentucky pastored by his aunt Flossie Good. By the mid 1950’s Buck and Dottie married and were members of an apostolic church (Lighthouse Mission) in Madisonville Kentucky, pastored by James Russell who was known as “The Coal Miner Preacher.” Years earlier in 1946 Pastor Russell had preached his first revival services for Buck’s aunt Pastor Flossie Good. In 1959, Pastor Russell’s daughter Judy along with Buck and Dottie formed the Gospel Echoes which were the ORIGINAL iteration of what eventually became the The Singing Rambos in 1964.

Pastor Russell officially affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church (UPCI) in 1975

The first recording that the Gospel Echoes ever appeared was “Get On Board” which included another group, the “Christian Chapel Trio”. This album was made and marketed in a fundraising effort for the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ (ALJC).

Their debut album was titled “Draw Me Near” (1961/62) sometime after this album was released Buck joined the UPCI after being asked by (then) Pastor Nathaniel Urshan. Their first date/first sales of the album was at the Louisiana District UPC Campmeeting.

The Rambos eventually left the United Pentecostal Church around late 1965/early 1966 following an uproar over their appearance as guests on a nationally syndicated music television, The Gospel Singing Jubilee.

Buck wrote in his 1992 book (The Legacy of Buck & Dottie Rambo) that sometime in late summer 1967 during a stop in Monroe, Louisiana, Bishop A.T Morgan (then general superintendent of the UPCI) openly repented to them for the way UPCI churches had mistreated them after the debacle which ensued post their TV appearance.

Discography

Group

* 1964: Singing Rambos (Vista Records)

* 1965: Gospel Echoes "Those Singing Rambos" (Introducing Buck and Dottie's Daughter, Reba)

* 1947: Come Spring

* 1956: Gospel Ballads

* 1966: An Evening With The Rambos (HeartWarming)

* : The Soul Singing Rambos (HeartWarming)

* : This Is My Valley

* : Nashville Gospel (HeartWarming)

* : Live

* : Soul Classics

* 1977: Reflections

* 1988: Soul In The Family (HeartWarming)

* : 'If That Isn't Love

* 1973: Sing Me On Home (HeartWarming)

* 1973: Spotlighting The Rambos (Vista Records)

* 1973: Belief (Vista Records)

* 1973: Sonshine (HeartWarming)

* 1973: Too Much to Gain to Lose (Vista Records)

* 1974: Yours, Until He Comes (HeartWarming)

* 1974: Alive and Live at Souls Harbor (HeartWarming)

* 1975: There Has To Be A Song (HeartWarming)

* 1994: These Three Are One (HeartWarming)

* : The Son Is Shining (HeartWarming)

* 1967: Rambo Country (HeartWarming)

* 1977: Naturally (HeartWarming)

* 1978: Queen of Paradise

* 1976: Down By The Creek Bank

* 1979: Silver Jubilee (HeartWarming)

* 1979: Crossin' Over (HeartWarming)

* 1981: Rambo Reunion (HeartWarming)

* 1982: We Shall Behold Him (Musical)

* 1983: Son Of Thunder, Daughter of Light

* 1983: Memories Made New (HeartWarming)

* 1984: Destined For The Throne (Impact)

* 1984: The Perfect Rose Single & Interview

* 1986: Reaching Around The World

* 1987: The Legend Continues

* 1992: Masters of Gospel (Riversong)

* 1992: Lost Recordings of The Rambos/Gospel Echoes

* 1993: Walking Toward Recovery

* 1994: Mama's Favorite Hymns

Solo project

* 1964: Big Heart, Warm Voice

* 1965: Dottie Rambo and The Imperials (Heart Warming Records)

* 1968: It's The Soul Of Me/Dottie Rambo Sings Spirituals (Heart Warming)

* 1972: Heart Prints (Heart Warming)

* 1972: Sing Faith And Hope (Heart Warming)

* 1973: Dottie Rambo Song Book

* 1977: Love Letters

* 1978: Down By The Creek Bank (Benson)

* 1978: Choral Concert Of Love (Heart Warming)

* 1981: Makin' My Own Place (Heart Warming)

* 1989: Camp Goolamockee

* 1992: Hook Line, Subject & Rhyme

* 1993: Walkin' Toward Recovery

* 1993: Dottie Rambo

* 1994: Oil And The Wine

* 2003: Stand By The River (Spring Hill Music)

* 2003: We Shall Behold Him

* 2005: Treasures, Yesterday, Today...

* 2009: Sheltered (Daywind

Other albums

* 1974: Highway Call Dickey Betts (title song)

* 1982: He Set My Life to Music Barbara Mandrell (MCA) "I Will Glory In The Cross"

* 1994: Soul Embrace David Robertson (Star Song)"One More Time"

* 2006: Revival The Dunaways (Zion Music) "I Just Came To Talk With You Lord"

* 2009: Here I Am Christie Lynn "My Song Is New", "I'm Gonna Leave Here Shouting"

Reba Rambo discography

* 1984: Special Moments from The Bride (Impact)

* 1986: Plain and Simple Truth (Benson)

* 1987: Enlistment (Benson)

* 1990: Mission Possible (RMR)

* 1992: Live in the Combat Zone (RMR)

* 1992: Come on and Walk on the Water (single) (RMR)

* 1993: Suddenly (Word)

* 1994: The Noteworthy Collection, Volumes 1 and 2 (RMR)

* 1998: Praise & Worship Celebrating The River (RMR)

* 1999: Praise & Worship Holiness of God (RMR)

* 2000: Rambo McGuire Family Christmas (RMR)

* 2011: The Noteworthy Collection Volumes 1 & 2 (Rambo McGuire Records)

* 2011: Grassroots Rambos – Remembering The Rambos (Rambo McGuire Records)

* 2014: Rambo Classics (Rambo McGuire Records)

* 2016: Rambo Classics (StowTown Records)

On Other Records

* 1970: Charity's Children

* 1978: Unreleased Covers – Donnie Gossett

* 1979: On This Christmas Night (MCA Songbird) "The Whole World Is Colored with Love"

* 1981: Looking Forward – Bob Bailey (Triangle) "I'm Looking Forward"

* 1981: Dony McGuire: The Writer, The Singer - Inspiration (Lexicon) --Dony McGuire

* 2000: Bigger Than Life – Donnie Gossett and Friends (Zilla Media) "Best Friend"

* 2003: The Sound of Heaven – David and Nicole Binion (SOH)

* 2004: Holding On to Faith" – Karen Harding (Daywind) "Because Of Whose I Am"

* 2004: We Have Overcome – Christ Tabernacle Choir (Vital) "What You Say Is What You Get"

* 2005: Remembering the Greats (Daywind) "I've Never Been This Homesick Before", "Because Of Whose I Am"

* 2005: Supernatural – Jeff Ferguson (Jeff Ferguson Music) (title song)

* 2006: When Heaven Kisses Earth – David & Nicole Binion (SOH) "Pray For Rain Medley"

* 2008: The Beginnings Concert – Jesus Music Reunion "Never Ending Love", "Land of Oohs and Aahs", "Supernatural