Little Caesar (Kiss song)

Song_infobox
Name = Little Caesar


Artist = Kiss
Album = Hot in the Shade
Released = October 17, 1989
track_no = 14
Recorded = July-August 1989
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 3:08
Writer = Eric Carr, Gene Simmons, Adam Mitchell
Label = Mercury Records
Producer = Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons
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prev = "Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell"
prev_no = 13
next = "Boomerang"
next_no = 15

"Little Caesar" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss, featured on their 1989 album "Hot in the Shade". It is the lone original song that drummer Eric Carr sang lead on during his tenure with Kiss (although he did sing lead on a remake of "Beth" on Kiss's "Smashes, Thrashes & Hits" album the year before). The song was written by Carr, Gene Simmons and Adam Mitchell.

Carr submitted three songs to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons for selection for the then upcoming album, and according to Carr in 1990:

Simmons actually loved the last song and suggested that Carr should make a complete demo of it. Carr and Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick went to the studio and completed a full recording. The track was originally titled "Ain't That Peculiar" (a version that is featured on 2001s "The Box Set") and featured different lyrics until Carr and Simmons wrote a new set of lyrics together using the title "Little Caesar", which is what Simmons called Carr when he was acting like a tough guy.

The track features Carr on lead vocals, backing vocals, bass and drums, Kulick on lead guitar, and Simmons and Paul Stanley on backing vocals.

"Little Caesar" was played live once on the first night of the Hot in the Shade Tour, on April 26, 1990, at the Country Club in Reseda. [Stevens, Joe. "Revenge is Sweet". Omnibus Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7119-5820-3]

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