Dee-Lightful!

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.

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Billboard	[1]

Background

Organist Dee had an instrumental hit single in February 1955 with his composition Plantation Boogie.^[2] This, his first album, contained that recording and Dee's interpretation of standards.^[1] A 45-rpm extended play set was also issued, but missing four selections appearing on the 12-inch LP.^[3]

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.^[1] Cashbox listed the album as high as ninth on their album charts.^[4] On the Billboard albums chart, the album peaked at No. 11.^[5]

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)