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SELECTIONS INCLUDE:

Side One

1. PLANTATION BOOGIE Lenny Dee

2. LAURA ‘David Raksin-Johnny Mercer

3. YES, SIR, THAT’S MY BABY

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Walter Donaldson-Gus Kahn

THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES ‘Ray Henderson-B. G. DeSylva-Lew Brown

LITTLE BROWN JUG

SEPTEMBER SONG Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill

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BALLIN’ THE JACK ©

EXACTLY LIKE YOU Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields

Jim Burris-Chris Smith

SIBONEY Ernesto Lecuona

SWEET GEORGIA BROWN

Ben Bernie-Maceo Pinkard-Kenneth Casey

THE WORLD iS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE

Eugene Lockhart-Ernest Seitz

THE DONKEY SERENADE R. Friml-H. Stothart-B. Wright-C. Forrest

These recordings are also available on Decca

Extended Play Record ED-735 (45 rpm)

except selections 2, 3, 5, and 6 of Side Two.

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N INSTRUMENT which has a long and noble: history, the organ has had countless devotees; more-

over, performers have vied with each other to obtain new effects from it. Lenny Dee is one of those

who have injected fresh verve and vitality into modern organ arrangements. He has unquestionably a

style of his own. Whether he is making the organ strum like a banjo, or pulse with the beating of tom-

toms, or vibrate with the sensuous rhythms of an entire rhumba band, he reveals the innate musician as

well as the startling performer.

He has not always been an organist. When he was 7 years old, he entertained friends by playing

the banjo. Reared in Illinois and in Florida, he studied the piano-accordion ‘in his youth. The Navy

claimed him for three years; he was on an aircraft carrier which had a route between the West Coast

and Japan. After the war he took advantage of the G. I. Bill to enroll at the Conservatory of Chicago,

where he received his first lessons on the organ.

It was not long before he landed a series of bookings at some of the most prominent hotels in the

south. Encouraged by the response, he began featuring original ideas and novel rhythm arrangements

with floor shows. He was heard on a weekly network and, during an engagement at Nashville’s Planta-

tion Club, he signed a contract with Decca Records, largely through the interest of Red Foley.

Admirers of Lenny Dee claim that he can coax anything out of the organ: “Using Duke Ellington’s

‘Caravan,’” wrote Johnny Jones in the Columbus Dispatch, “Lenny Dee will start an imitation of

Harry James, then bring in Harpo Marx and his harp, Bobby Haggart on the bass fiddle, Gene Krupa

and his drums, and even Tommy Dorsey!” These recordings reveal the versatility of a star performer,

the skill of a gifted ‘arranger, and the taste of a true musician.

This DECCA Long Play Microgroove Unbreakable Record can be played only on 33/3 RPM instruments. For maximum protection, it should be kept in-this protective envelope, away from heat.

Printed in U.S.A.

DL 8114

DL 8114 LONG PLAY 33% RPM

DEE-LIGHTFUL! LENNY DEE Hi-Fi Organ Solos

DL 8114 LONG PLAY 33% RPM

DEE-LIGHTFUL!

LENNY DEE

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DL 8114 (die) = 9 SIDE—? (MG 3973)*