Dee-Lightful!

Dee-Lightful
Studio album by Lenny Dee
Released	1955
Genre	Traditional pop instrumental
Label	Decca
Lenny Dee chronology
Dee-Lightful (1955) Dee-Lirious (1956)

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Dee-Lightful is a studio album released by Lenny Dee in 1955 on Decca LP record DL 8114 and 45rpm Extended Play set ED-735.

Background

Organist Dee had an instrumental hit single in February 1955 with his composition Plantation Boogie. This, his first album, contained that recording and Dee's interpretation of standards. A 45-rpm extended play set was also issued, but missing four selections appearing on the 12-inch LP.

Reception

Billboard predicted that the album would be a "big seller", noting the large number of unusual sonic effects created on the organ, as well as the vivacity of Dee's playing. Cashbox listed the album as high as ninth on their album charts. On the Billboard albums chart, the album peaked at No. 11.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Plantation Boogie" (Lenny Dee)
2.	"Laura" (David Raksin - Johnny Mercer)
3.	"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" (Walter Donaldson - Gus Kahn)
4.	"The Birth of the Blues" (Ray Henderson - Buddy G. DeSylva - Lew Brown)
5.	"Little Brown Jug" ((no credit given))
6.	"September Song" (Maxwell Anderson - Kurt Weill)
7.	"Ballin' the Jack" (Jim Burris - Chris Smith)
8.	"Exactly Like You" (Jimmy McHugh - Dorothy Fields)
9.	"Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona)
10.	"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie - Maceo Pinkard - Kenneth Casey)
11.	"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Eugene Lockhart - Ernest Seitz)
12.	"The Donkey Serenade" (Rudolph Friml - Herbert Stothart - B. Wright - C. Forrest)