Although he gained some notoriety for his 1952 R&B novelty hit "Goodbye Baby" (included here), otherwise Little Caesar is a forgotten figure even throughout much of the '50s R&B collector world. He's also eternally bound to be confused with the entirely different guy who was the lead singer of Little Caesar & the Romans, the doo wop group who had a 1961 hit with "Those Oldies But Goodies." The Little Caesar who's the focus of this compilation was a rather typical early-'50s West Coast R&B vo...   [ read more ]

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Little Caesar & the Romans may have been the most deliberate purveyors of real and perceived nostalgia in the history of pop music. The group's first single, "Those Oldies But Goodies," stands or falls on its title's notion, while the follow-up single, "Hully Gully Again," depends on the recognition of the Olympics' earlier hit, "Baby Hully Gully." From there, Little Caesar & the Romans just upped the ante with "Memories of Those Oldies But Goodies," which not only fed off the creat...   [ read more ]

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Shirley Caesar's records are powerfully executed examples of gospel as a means to an end, and there is no doubt that she is a dynamic performer. But her albums only tell part of the story, for Caesar is more than a performer -- she is also an explosive preacher who uses music as a way to get her message across to her audiences. This gospel sermon was delivered live in 1976, and it features Caesar in her natural habitat speaking, singing, shouting, exhorting, and stirring up an inferno of emo...   [ read more ]

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