[2] Several of his songs became hit records, including "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall".
Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame posthumously in 1972,[3] he was more recently celebrated as one of the founding fathers of rockabilly, having written for Gene Vincent and Capitol Records.
Rhodes often recorded demos at KWKH in Shreveport and other surrounding radio stations, before creating his own studio in Mineola, Texas.
A mentor for several emerging artists in the mid to late 1950s, Rhodes and his collaborators wrote many songs for Gene Vincent while on the Capitol label.
[citation needed] BMI awarded him for over a million radio broadcasts of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", and he received numerous gold records for various releases.