Biography
Leroy Lewis
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959
Organist, native of the Reading-Allentown area, moved to New Jersey in the mid-fifties, and became organist at the Surf City Hotel in 1957. He opened at the Lighthouse Inn in 1961. This was followed by a long engagement in the Republic of Panama, at the El Panama Hilton Hotel where he played one of the largest visual pipe organs in the world. He returned to U.S. in 1966, playing the summer season at the Lighthouse Inn, Barnegat Light, New Jersey and Conley's, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the winter season.