Dee-Lightful!
{{Infobox album|
| name = Dee-Lightful
| type = studio
| artist = Lenny Dee
| cover = Dee-Lightful!.jpg
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| released = 1955
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| genre = Traditional pop instrumental
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| label = Decca
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| next_title = Dee-Lirious
| next_year = 1956
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{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Billboard
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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.
Background
Organist Dee had an instrumental hit single in February 1955 with his composition Plantation Boogie.{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |title=Top Pop Singles 1955-1999|year=2000 |publisher=Record Research, Inc. |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |isbn=0-89820-139-X |page=167}} This, his first album, contained that recording and Dee's interpretation of standards.{{cite news |author= |title=Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |work=Billboard |page=32 |date=May 7, 1955 |via=Google Books}} A 45-rpm extended play set was also issued, but missing four selections appearing on the 12-inch LP.{{cite AV media |people=Lenny Dee |date=1955 |title=Dee-Lightful |trans-title= |language= |url= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |type=12-inch LP phonograph record |time= |location= |publisher=Decca Records |id=DL 8114 |isbn= |oclc= |quote=These recordings are also available on Decca Extended Play Record ED-735 (45 rpm) except selections 2, 3, 5, and 6 of Side Two. |ref= }}
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. Cashbox listed the album as high as ninth on their album charts.{{cite news |author= |title=Top 15 Best Selling Pop Albums |url=https://archive.org/stream/cashbox16unse_41#page/18/mode/2up/search/Lenny+Dee+%22Dee-Lightful%22 |work=Cashbox |page=19 |date=July 16, 1955 |via=Archive.org }} On the Billboard albums chart, the album peaked at No. 11.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lenny-dee-mn0000245143 |title=Lenny Dee Biography |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |date= |website=Allmusic |publisher=RhythmOne group|access-date=January 24, 2018 |quote=He followed it with his first album, Dee-lightful!, which peaked at number 11}}
Track listing
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| title1 = Plantation Boogie
| note1 = Lenny Dee
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| title2 = Laura
| note2 = David Raksin - Johnny Mercer
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| title3 = Yes Sir, That's My Baby
| note3 = Walter Donaldson - Gus Kahn
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| title4 = The Birth of the Blues
| note4 = Ray Henderson - Buddy G. DeSylva - Lew Brown
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| title5 = Little Brown Jug
| note5 = (no credit given)
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| title6 = September Song
| note6 = Maxwell Anderson - Kurt Weill
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| title7 = Ballin' the Jack
| note7 = Jim Burris - Chris Smith
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| title8 = Exactly Like You
| note8 = Jimmy McHugh - Dorothy Fields
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| title9 = Siboney
| note9 = Ernesto Lecuona
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| title10 = Sweet Georgia Brown
| note10 = Ben Bernie - Maceo Pinkard - Kenneth Casey
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| title11 = The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
| note11 = Eugene Lockhart - Ernest Seitz
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| title12 = The Donkey Serenade
| note12 = Rudolph Friml - Herbert Stothart - B. Wright - C. Forrest
| length12 = }}
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Category:Traditional pop albums