Double Dee-Light - Dee-Most, Dee-Licious, Dee-Lightful & Dee-Lirious - Hi-Fi Organ Solos With A Beat

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Album: Double Dee-Light - Dee-Most, Dee-Licious, Dee-Lightful & Dee-Lirious - Hi-Fi Organ Solos With A Beat
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Plantation Boogie	More Info...	0:03
2)	Laura	More Info...	0:02
3)	Yes Sir, That's My Baby!	More Info...	0:02
4)	The Birth of the Blues	More Info...	0:02
5)	Little Brown Jug	More Info...	0:02
6)	September Song	More Info...	0:03
7)	Ballin' the Jack	More Info...	0:02
8)	Exactly Like You	More Info...	0:02
9)	Siboney	More Info...	0:03
10)	Sweet Georgia Brown	More Info...	0:02
11)	The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
12)	The Donkey Sunrise	More Info...	0:03
13)	Coquette	More Info...	0:02
14)	I'm Beginning to See the Light	More Info...	0:02
15)	Chinatown, My Chinatown	More Info...	0:02
16)	Charmaine	More Info...	0:02
17)	Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (Has Any One Seen My Girl)	More Info...	0:02
18)	Out of Nowhere	More Info...	0:02
19)	Caravan	More Info...	0:02
20)	That's My Weakness Now	More Info...	0:02
21)	This Ole House	More Info...	0:02
22)	Five O'clock Whistle	More Info...	0:02
23)	Twelfth Street Rag	More Info...	0:02
24)	Goodnight Sweetheart	More Info...	0:02

Album: Double Dee-Light - Dee-Most, Dee-Licious, Dee-Lightful & Dee-Lirious - Hi-Fi Organ Solos With A Beat
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Plantation Boogie	More Info...	0:03
2)	Laura	More Info...	0:02
3)	Yes Sir, That's My Baby!	More Info...	0:02
4)	The Birth of the Blues	More Info...	0:02
5)	Little Brown Jug	More Info...	0:02
6)	September Song	More Info...	0:03
7)	Ballin' the Jack	More Info...	0:02
8)	Exactly Like You	More Info...	0:02
9)	Siboney	More Info...	0:03
10)	Sweet Georgia Brown	More Info...	0:02
11)	The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise	More Info...	0:02
12)	The Donkey Sunrise	More Info...	0:03
13)	Coquette	More Info...	0:02
14)	I'm Beginning to See the Light	More Info...	0:02
15)	Chinatown, My Chinatown	More Info...	0:02
16)	Charmaine	More Info...	0:02
17)	Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (Has Any One Seen My Girl)	More Info...	0:02
18)	Out of Nowhere	More Info...	0:02
19)	Caravan	More Info...	0:02
20)	That's My Weakness Now	More Info...	0:02
21)	This Ole House	More Info...	0:02
22)	Five O'clock Whistle	More Info...	0:02
23)	Twelfth Street Rag	More Info...	0:02
24)	Goodnight Sweetheart	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

Recording information: New York, NY (11/03/1954-01/08/1956).
Leonard George DeStoppelaire, known professionally as Lenny Dee, occupied a leading position at the head of a pack of plugged-in organists who swarmed across the face of U.S. pop culture for about 20 years beginning in 1955. When he first began recording for Decca, the only organist carrying on with comparable camp was zingy Ethel Smith. When she arrived on the scene in the 1940s, the Hammond organ was largely the province of jazzmen like Milt Herth, Glenn Hardman, Count Basie, and the original jazz organist, Fats Waller. Dee's overall contribution to history owes its impact to cornball shenanigans and slightly weird mood music. He is infinitely more interesting and fun than Wurlitzer-wielding Ken Griffin and what could be termed the Seconal school of sentimental mood music. At his best, Lenny Dee was a perky interpreter of popular airs who clearly loved to ham it up. Despite a discography containing more than 50 LPs, a surprisingly small number of digital Dee reissues have appeared since he stopped recording. Jasmine's Double Dee-Light has terrific merit as a nearly ideal introduction to his unique persona and often slaphappy technique. Fortified by direct ties with Nashville through initial assistance from Red Foley, Dee soon became the undisputed king of squinky electric pop keyboards, and some of his kookier album covers have since become cherished collector's items. Sampling his output from 1954-1956, Double Dee-Light opens with the song that put Dee on the map, "Plantation Boogie," which is a recognizable cover of Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's famous "Boogie Woogie." Dee did his stuff using a Hammond Model A organ modified with a Maas-Rowe Vibrachord and the Hammond Solovox, devices that enabled him to submerge his listeners in aspic as he does during the mildly mysterious "Fan Tango." Dee's primary repertoire consisted largely of old-time vaudeville, jazz, and pop ditties like "Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue," "That's My Weakness Now," "Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye," "Ain't She Sweet," and "Alabamy Bound," in addition to "Hawaiian War Chant" and real standards like "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Caravan," and "I'm Beginning to See the Light." For all his success as an interpreter of ballads and mood music, Dee was first and foremost a restless purveyor of toe-tapping tunes that most of his audience already knew by heart. At any given moment Dee was likely to morph into his zippier self with caffeinated delights like "Yodelin' Organ," "Hot Foot Boogie," and the charmingly titled "Jumpin' on the Organ," during which Dee picks up where Fats Waller left off in 1943 with "Bouncin' on a V-Disc." Whenever he settled upon verifiably solid material like Meade "Lux" Lewis' "Honky Tonk Train Blues" and Tiny Bradshaw's "Jersey Bounce," the results were sure to be gratifying. Because it covers essentially his first 14 months of full-scale recording activity, Double Dee-Light (together with its companion release, In Dee-Mand) really ought to serve as the foundation for an extended reissue campaign. ~ arwulf arwulf

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