Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cotton Walk
2. Rainbow at Midnight
3. This Can't Be Love
4. Carolina in the Morning
5. I Wonder I Wonder I Wonder
6. Peanut Vendor
7. Down Home Rag
8. My Buddy
9. San
10. Melody of Love
11. Cincinnati Dancing Pig
12. Bye Bye Blues
13. Spooky Takes a Holiday
14. Basin Street Blues
15. Big Boogie Dee
16. Side by Side
17. Cecila
18. Oh Lady Be Good
19. Little Rock Getaway
20. Where or When
21. Sleep
22. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
23. Spring Beautiful Spring
24. When Day Is Done
25. Nobody's Sweetheart
26. Honeydripper
27. Flea Hop Boogie
28. Have You Ever Been Lonely

Disc 2:

1. Mambo Jambo
2. Walter Winchell Rhumba
3. Ja Da
4. (When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas
5. Begin the Beguine
6. Sweet and Gentle
7. Cumbanchero
8. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
9. Mambo No. 5
10. Te Quiero Dijiste
11. Morena
12. Adios
13. I'll See You in My Dreams
14. Tara Lara
15. Goodnight Sweet Love
16. In the Mood
17. Stormy Weather
18. Undecided
19. Rose Room
20. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)
21. My Blue Heaven
22. High Tide Boogie
23. Dream
24. Punxsutawney Boogie
25. Crazy Organ Rag
26. Viennese Waltz Medly
27. Oh Jimmy Jimmy
28. Them There Eyes
29. St Louis Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100121 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-05
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Great 50's Organ Music
Brings back wonderful old memories of seeing him live at Lenny's Den in Florida. He was great!!!!

This Truly is Lenny Dee In Dee-Mand! A Triple Dee-Light!
Remember Red Foley the great country singer? Mr. Foley was responsible for Lenny signing a contract to record for Decca Records. Lenny started out in 1950 and recorded for the same company until 1978. This double CD represents some of Lenny's very early single releases. Actually there are 15 of his early singles on this double CD. The very first song Lenny recorded was St. Louis Blues back in 1950. And if you listen closely you will Dee-Tect a bit of a boogie beat even in that early recording at one point, the man who taught the world how a boogie should sound on a Hammond Organ. There are four boogies contained on this double CD release by Jasmine.

Then in a couple of sessions in New York City during the mid-fifties, Lenny recorded 30 songs which make-up two of his best albums ever titled Hi-Dee-Fi and Dee-Day! plus five selections in an album titled Mr. Dee Goes To Town. Six of those old singles mentioned above complete the remainder of Mr. Dee Goes To Town. If you listen closely you can tell the newer recordings from the early recordings.

Lenny then caught a fast freight from Florida to Nashville, Tennessee taking along his now famous Hammond Model A to record his eighth album for Decca titled Dee-Latin. Some consider this his most difficult work.
To top off this great double CD are nine more singles that never appeared on any of his Decca/MCA record albums. Even one song features Lenny singing, the last single he recorded before his famous Plantation Boogie was released which made Lenny somewhat of a household name back in the mid-fifties.

What more can I say? This album is "enough to make a rabbit hug a hounddog".

Hot Damn, Pardner!
Once again the master comes forth! I have all these albums contained therein on LPs [that's records, folks!] Just ordered this one, and I can tell you that you will especially love the stuff Lenny does.
He plays organ right.....two hands, two feet, and all the right moves.
I was fortunate to have had Lenny as a friend and mentor for over 40 years before his death, and never was there an organist who got more out of a Hammond than he did. All that specially-made equipment: the echo, the pedal sustain, the Solovox...they all add up to a performance you won't forget. Put his CD on and hold on to your hat [and spurs] Pardner...
Here comes THE Lenny Dee at the Hammond Organ. Need I say more?

Mike Reed