The Original Wicked Lester Sessions
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The Original Wicked Lester Sessions is the first album recorded by the band now known as KISS
KISS (band)
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

. The original lineup featured Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...

 (bass and lead vocals), Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...

 (guitar and lead-vocals), Ron Leejack
Ron Leejack
Ron Leejack was the lead guitarist for Wicked Lester, an early 1970s band that included future Kiss band mates Gene Simmons , Paul Stanley and Peter Criss. Ron Leejack had met Jimi Hendrix and had worked with Eddie Kramer prior to joining the band. He also appeared on the 1971 release by Cactus,...

 (guitar and banjo), Brook Ostrander (piano and horns), Tony Zarrella (drums), and Steve Coronel (additional guitars).

The album was shelved by the recording company and has to date never been released. Bootleg versions of the album appear on P2P
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 networks.
Tracks 1, 3 and 5 were released on the Kiss box set in 2001.

Track listing

  1. "Love Her All I Can" (2:28) Stanley
  2. "Sweet Ophelia" (2:56) Barry Mann/Gerry Goffin
  3. "Keep Me Waiting" (3:04) Stanley
  4. "Simple Type" (2:33) Simmons
  5. "She
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    "She" is a song by American hard rock group Kiss. It was released on the band's third studio album Dressed to Kill in 1975. The song was written by Gene Simmons and Stephen Coronel while Simmons was in a band called Bullfrog Bheer...

    " (2:54) Coronel/Simmons
  6. "Too Many Mondays" (3:27) Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil
  7. "What Happens in the Darkness" (2:59) Tamy Lester Smith
  8. "When the Bell Rings" (3:11) Austin Roberts/Christopher Welch
  9. "Molly" (aka Some Other Guy) (2:23) Stanley
  10. "We Want to Shout It Out Loud" (2:04) The Hollies

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