Dee-licious! - Lenny Dee

 

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Dee-licious!

Lenny Dee

Organ Solos With Rhythm Accompaniment

Hi-Fi Organ Solos With A Beat

Decca Records DL 8275

1956

From the back cover: Lennie Dee can do absolutely anything with the organ – including many things which have never been attempted. He can make it sing and dance, wail and weep, swing and sway, pulse and pound – he can almost make it sit up and beg. The only thing he can not do with it is to make it sound dull. His preceding albums, "Dee-lightful" (DL 8114) and "Dee-lirious" (DL 8165) have won listeners throughout the nation – this new collection is issued in response to a continuing demand.

Lennie Dee was not always an organist. At seven he was playing the  banjo. Then, in Illinois and in Florida, he studied the piano-accordion. They the Navy took him – he was on an aircraft carrier route between the West Coast and Japan. With a G.I. bill he enrolled at the Conservatory of Chicago, and it was there that he had his first lesson on an organ. It did not take him long to learn that he had found his natural instrument. He landed bookings as some of the most prominent hotels in the south. He began to vary his style, to feature original ideas and novel rhythms. He was heard on a weekly network and, during an engagement at Nashville's Plantation Club, he signed a contract with Decca Records.

From Billboard - June 2, 1956: Lenny Dee, with two successful albums behind him, comes thru with another happy, rollicking series of offerings. The lad shows much imagination in tunes like "Stompin' At The Savoy," "Honky Tonk Train Blues," "Jersey Bounce" and "Hawaiian War Chant." An organ can be a multihued, versatile instrument and Dee definitely makes it speak up. Of the increasing number of organ packages available, this is among the best.

Delicious 

Fan Tango

Stompin' At The Savoy

Diane

Honky Tonk Train Blues

Alabamy Bound

Tarragona

At Sundown

Jersey Bounce

Hawaiian War Chant

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye