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On this episode of The Outsiders (formerly known as "Outsider Oldies"), host Rich Tupica dedicates an hour to some of the rawest Southern soul ever cut. From the colossal sounds of Stax Records to gritty, forgotten R&B 45s, this is one moody episode.

Letta Mbulu

Letta Mbulu

Letta Mbulu has been played on NTS over 210 times, featured on 206 episodes and was first played on 15 October 2012.

Letta Mbulu (Soweto, 23 August 1942) is a South African jazz singer born and raised in Soweto, South Africa. She has been active since the 1960s, but left South Africa due to Apartheid in 1965 and moved to the United States. There she worked with Cannonball Adderley and Harry Belafonte. Her singing can also be heard in Roots (TV miniseries), The Color Purple, and she was a guest on a Season 6 episode of Soul Train.

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Letta Mbulu

Letta Mbulu has been played on NTS over 210 times, featured on 206 episodes and was first played on 15 October 2012.

Letta Mbulu (Soweto, 23 August 1942) is a South African jazz singer born and raised in Soweto, South Africa. She has been active since the 1960s, but left South Africa due to Apartheid in 1965 and moved to the United States. There she worked with Cannonball Adderley and Harry Belafonte. Her singing can also be heard in Roots (TV miniseries), The Color Purple, and she was a guest on a Season 6 episode of Soul Train.

Original source: Last.fm

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Nomalizo
Letta Mbulu
Munjale1983
Normalizo
Letta Mbulu
Heavenly Sweetness, Pura Vida2014
Down By The River
Letta Mbulu
Munjale1983
What's Wrong With Groovin'
Letta Mbulu
Random Records1967
Mahlalela (Lazy Bones)
Letta
Chisa Records, Inc.1970
Pula Yetla
Letta Mbulu
Capitol Records1967
Sweet Juju
Letta Mbulu
Munjale1983
Kilimanjaro
Letta Mbulu
MJS Records1981
Mahlalela
Letta Mbulu
BBE2006
What's Wrong With Groovin'
Letta Mbulu
Jazzman2001