Ka cika wannan magana: Ayyukan Ottley tare da mawaƙa sun haɗa da shirya da kuma yin kusan rediyo da talabijin kusan sau ɗari uku na mako-mako na "Music and the Spoken Word". Ya kuma jagoranci ƙungiyar mawaƙa a cikin rikodin kasuwanci sama da talatin da kuma manyan yawon shakatawa sama da ashirin, ban da waƙoƙi na yau da kullun a gidan ƙungiyar mawaƙa a cikin Salt Lake Tabernacle. Kungiyar ta rera waka a bikin kaddamar da kungiyar
1981 rantsar da Ronald Reagan, wanda ya lakafta su "Chor na Amurka". Shekaru takwas bayan haka, sun yi waka a bikin rantsar da George H. W. Bush, wanda ya kwatanta su a matsayin "wadata ta ƙasa". Ottley ya nada Bonnie Goodliffe a matsayin daya daga cikin 'yan kungiyar mawaƙa a shekarar 1988. Ita ce mace ta farko da ta fara aiki; Goodliffe daga baya ya bayyana Ottley a matsayin "mai hangen nesa sosai". Ya kuma kafa wasan kwaikwayo na Kirsimeti na shekara-shekara.