Dallas was born as Frederick Amos Doble in Wallerawang, a small mining town near Lithgow NSW.
Dallas inherited a love of bush poetry through a close friendship with his grandfather, who regularly read poems to him.
He later toured with Lee "Stubby" Gordon and made his first single 'Bicycle Wreck' for EMI Records in 1960.
When not touring with his country show, he regularly entertained at his own venue, Gully Park, in Moonbi, northern NSW.
It was inaugurated in 1976 and the inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth in January.