Rodeheaver be­gan his ca­reer tour­ing with the Billy Sun­day evan­gel­ism cam­paign in the ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry. Af­ter­ward, he helped found the Ro­de­heav­er-Ack­ley Com­pa­ny, a Gos­pel mu­sic pub­lish­er which later be­came the Ro­de­heav­er Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny. He al­so founded Rain­bow Re­cords, which spe­cial­ized in Gos­pel mu­sic. He was in­duct­ed in­to the South­ern Gos­pel Mu­sic As­so­ci­a­tion Hall of Fame in 2003. His works in­clude:

• Song Stor­ies of the Saw­dust Trail (New York: The Chris­tian Her­ald, 1917)
• Williston Hymns, with A. J. Shar­tle (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Unit­ed So­ci­e­ty of Chris­tian En­dea­vor, 1917)
• Victory Songs (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Ro­de­hea­ver Com­pa­ny, 1920)
• Rodeheaver’s Gos­pel Songs (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Ro­de­hea­ver Com­pa­ny, 1922)
• Golden Bells (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Ro­de­hea­ver Com­pa­ny, 1923)
• Hymnal Handbook for Stan­dard Hymns and Gos­pel Songs (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Ro­de­heav­er Com­pa­ny, 1931)

• Anderson, p. 202
• Randel, p. 753

1. Confidence
2. Good Night and Good Morn­ing
3. Sail On!
4. Somebody Cares
5. Then Je­sus Came