Little Caesar & the Romans

Close to the end from the doo wop period, this LA group made the very best Ten using the nostalgic “Those Oldies But Goodies (Reminds Me of You),” a piano-based ballad that sounded a little such as a bridge between your Five Satins and Small Anthony & the Imperials. Doo wop’s times had been numbered when this is popular in 1961, and even the song’s name would swiftly become a catch-all expression for rock information of all types that had still left the charts in the past. Small Caesar & the Romans continued to record several singles, and an LP, for Del-Fi in 1961 and 1962, some within a quaint vocal group way intensely derivative of “Those Oldies But Goodies,” others within a rougher, uptempo R&B mildew comparable to fellow L.A. performers the Olympics. They produced the center of the very best 100 using the dance melody “Hully Gully Once again,” and topped out at #101 with “Thoughts of these Oldies But Goodies,” an individual that was a lot more nostalgic than its prototype. The action, which performed in togas for some time, split up in 1962, partially due to a foolish dispute between business lead vocalist Carl Barnett and David Johnson (who do the spoken bridge of “Those Oldies But Goodies”) concerning who had been the real Small Caesar.