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Lenny Dee - Double Dee-Light - Dee-Most Dee-Lightful, Dee-Licious and Dee-Lirious (2CD) (Reviewed)
Price: £8.95 Code: JASCD427 Qty: You have Zero of these in your Basket Postage: 1.00 units CD/DVD prices include 17.5% VAT which will be removed from orders sent outside EU Europe.
	CD Duration: 116.20 / Year: 2006 2006 double CD release by the late Lenny Dee (who died in February 2006). Contains 48 of his most famous tracks (Mono) Lenny Dee was a versatile organist who enjoyed a Top 20 hit with "Plantation Boogie" and went on to record over 50 LPs. He was best-known for being able to make his organ sound like a wide variety of other musical instruments. Here on CD for the first time since their original release on vinyl, Lenny plays some of his most requested numbers, and plays them in a manner which is different from any other performer. This CD is a must for Hammond Organ enthusiasts, beautifully packaged & wonderfully remastered using the latest digital processing technology. Disc One (running time 58.44): Plantation Boogie Laura Yes Sir That's My Baby Birth Of The Blues Little Brown Jug September Song Ballin' The Jack Exactly Like You Siboney Sweet Georgia Brown World Is Waiting For The Sunrise Donkey Serenade Coquette I'm Beginning To See The Light Chinatown My Chinatown Charmaine Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue Out Of Nowhere Caravan That's My Weakness Now This Ole House Five O'Clock Whistle Twelth Street Rag Good Night Sweetheart Disc Two (running time 57.36): Delicious Fan Tango Stompin' At The Savoy Diane Honky Tonk Train Blues Alabamy Bound Tarragona At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) Jersey Bounce Hawaiian War Chant (Ta Hu Wa Hu Wai) What Is This Thing Called Love Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye Jumpin' On The Organ Avalon Somebody Stole My Gal Hot Foot Boogie Josephine Way Down Yonder In New Orleans Oh You Beautiful Doll Indian Love Call Ain't She Sweet Yodelin' Organ Let Me Call You Sweetheart China Boy   Plantation Boogie Little Brown Jug I'm Beginning to See the Light Twelfth Street Rag  Alan Ashton's Organised Keyboards Review (from ORGAN1st Magazine Issue 31): Turning back the clock again, it was no less than 50 years ago when I first became acquainted with the extraordinary sound of the Hammond organ played by Lenny Dee. It was the pioneering era of the LP recording when I first bought DEE-LIGHTFUL on Brunswick LAT 8072, subtitled Organ Solos with a beat. The year was 1954 and I was a lowly paid Leading Aircraftsmen stationed in some god-forsaken camp miles from anywhere, but my meagre pay at least enabled me to lay out 39 shillings for the recording that was to make me forever a fan of this unique artist: an artist who made Ethel Smith sound like a beginner!. That LP, together with three subsequent releases DEE-MOST / DEE-LIRIOUS and DEE- LICIOUS now all appear on one 48 track double CD appropriately titled DOUBLE DEE-LIGHT (JASCD 427) You want organ with a beat? Then there is no finer collection than assembled here. So why has it taken so long for these recordings to again see the light of day? The short answer is that Lenny sold all his Rights to the Master tapes many years ago, and whichever Company now owns them seemed never bothered about re-issuing them. However, at the end of 50 years the recordings pass into the Public Domain, and Jasmine Records, a English recording company were only too happy to make this superb compilation. The sad part is that Lenny Dee passed away only a matter of weeks before the CD hit the High Street shops. The hi-fi quality of these recordings is unquestionable, but equally unquestionable is the importance of the mysterious factor known as the Dee quality. It is this unanalysable but unsurpassable combination of tone and technique, of sound and substance, which characterise especially those that make up his earliest recordings. Lenny Dee did not start his music career as an organist. At seven he was playing the banjo; his next instrument was the piano-accordion. He was unsure what kind of a musician he would be when he joined the Navy, and when he got out of it he enrolled at the Conservatory of Music in Chicago. It was there on a G.I. grant, that Lenny took his first lessons at the organ and he knew that this was the instrument for him. Soon he was appearing professionally, and it was not long before he was booked at some of the most prominent hotels in the South. A weekly network made a bid for him; he also played at NashvilleÕs Plantation Club. His contract with Brunswick records gave him world publicity; and his first recordings were immediate hits. The one that rocketed him to prominence was none other than PLANTATION BOOGIE which entered the charts in February 1955 and remained there for 15 weeks. With a dynamic growling sound, the likes youÕve never heard before, there is no finer track to lead the listener into a world of Hammond organ playing that is full of surprises and is uniquely his very own. Never has the organ shown such vigour and versatility. Dotted throughout the tracks youÕll come across a couple more Dee originals in the form of JUMPINÕ ON THE ORGAN and HOT FOOT BOOGIE. Listen out too for the fun he has with LITTLE BROWN JUG, imitating the sound of man blowing down an empty jug: YODELINÕ ORGAN has the echos bouncing off the imaginary Swiss Alps: HONKY TONK TRAIN BLUES and ALABAMY BOUND are carried along with a pulsating railroad rhythm: the donkey in DONKEY SERENADE is urged to keep in step: the ghost of Gene Krupa reappears in CARAVAN and if there is a cleaner, toe tapping and more exciting version of 12th STREET RAG then I have yet to hear it. Apart from one track, FAN-TANGO where the end has been chopped off, whoever was entrusted with mastering the tracks from original LP copies, has done a super job. I make no excuse for the lengthy praise of this CD but in a world that is so full of electronic ÔorchestralÕ sounds, itÕs a breath of fresh air to turn back the clock and hear an artist who had such command of a Hammond organ and whatÕs more, made it fun to listen to. That man was ÔMr EntertainmentÕ Lenny Dee.

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