Lenny Dee

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There are multiple artists using this name. 1. A 1950s organ player who had a #1 hit with Plantation Boogie in 1955. 2. A New York DJ. 1. Born Leonard George DeStoppelaire, 5 January 1923, Chicago, Illinois - Died 12 February 2006, Saint Petersburg, Florida. Dee master of dee organ who made dee most of his dee-stinctive name. The youngest of eleven children, he was born in Chicago, where his father ran a tavern near Logan Square, but the family moved to Florida when he was a child, and Florida remained his home for most of his life. He began studying music in his early teens, taking accordion lessons. He was good enough to be working as a professional before he was drafted in 1943. Dee put most of his savings from his Navy pay into buying a Hammond Model A organ, one of the first commercially-available electronic organs in the U.S. He returned to music, this time as an organist, but had only moderate success until the early 1950s, when country singer Red Foley heard him and convinced his label, Decca, to hire Dee as a corn-fed alternative to the lively Ethel Smith. Dee's biggest hit, "Plantation Boogie," came early in his career and was covered by dozens of other artists. Dee himself admitted that the tune was based on a riff from Pine Top Smith's "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie." Although he never charted again, Decca kept him on contract for over 20 years. He recorded steadily, cutting two to four albums a year for Decca and its successor MCA, until MCA axed most of its

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The Dreamer

Ballad of the Broken Turntable

Forgotten Moments - Ophidian Remixes

Forgotten Moments (Ophidian Remixes)

Cold Fusion

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I Called You (Remixes)

Hardcore Rave Classics Vol 2

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Hardcore Rave Classics Vol 1

Round Two

Industrialization

Thunderdome - The Final Exam - 20 Years Of Hardcore

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The Amazing Adventures of Lenny Dee & Dark Raver

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