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Ollie Nightingale

Ollie Nightingale has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 1 May 2020. Songs played include I Don't Know Why I Love You, I'm In Love and I've Been Lifted.

Call him a blues singer if you prefer, but Ollie Nightingale will likely always be recalled most readily for the emotionally charged Memphis soul he cut from 1968 to 1970 as front man for Ollie & the Nightingales.

Like most great soul singers, Ollie Hoskins came straight out of church musically. He was the lead singer of the Dixie Nightingales, a Memphis spiritual aggregation, by 1958, when they…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
I Don't Know Why I Love You
Ollie Nightingale
Memphis1971
I Don't Know Why I Love You
Ollie NightingaleMemphis1971
Discogs
I'm In Love
Ollie Nightingale
Pathfinder Records1978
I'm In Love
Ollie NightingalePathfinder Records1978
Discogs
I've Been Lifted
Ollie Nightingale, The Dixie Nightingales
Not On Label2010
I've Been Lifted
Ollie Nightingale, The Dixie NightingalesNot On Label2010
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