Camille Bob aka "Lil Bob" aka "Little Bob" (November 7, 1937) is an American rhythm and blues singer and drummer.

Camille Bob was born on November 7, 1937 in Arnaudville, Louisiana, and was raised just southeast of Opelousas in rural Prairie Laurent. Bob grew up working on the farm but took an early interest in music and started singing in talent shows in high school, inspired by Fats Domino, Guitar Slim, and Count Basie to name a few. He acquired his first set of drums by trading his horse for a set of drums and by 1955 was performing with Good Rockin’ Bob (Ed Thomas). Music provided a good excuse to avoid working in the fields, “He was playing with Good Rockin’ Bob and if the dance was at three, he would tell his mom that it would start at eleven so he wouldn’t have to pick cotton!”

While working with Good Rockin’ Bob at the Moonlight Inn in Opelousas, he left his drums on the bandstand one night and returned to find the bass drum professionally hand-lettered with the words ‘Good Rockin’ Bob featuring Little Bob on drums.’ It was from then on he would be known as Little Bob.

In 1958, Little Bob formed his own group and made his recording debut for Goldband Records. Throughout the next several years he and his top-notch band the Lollipops developed a following that was unrivaled. Singer Bobby Allen recalls, “[Little Bob] came down to the Peppermint Club every Monday night and would play there. It was awesome. [He had] a big band. You had to be there early—I mean early like five or six o’clock in the evening in order to get a seat!”


Ask any musician from the 1960s Southwest Louisiana blues and R&B scene to name the best band that has ever come out of the area and one name gets repeated over and over—Little Bob & the Lollipops. In a land where so many extremely talented musicians emerged, to be remembered so enthusiastically by so many is quite an amazing feat.

As Marcia Ball put it, "Still, we had these great R&B horn bands that played our little Wednesday night dances - The Boogie Kings, Cookie and the Cupcakes - plus, radio at that time was really cool, because of the proximity of artists like Clifton Chenier, Lazy Lester, Cleveland Crochet', Little Bob and the Lollipops... you see, we didn't realize the whole world didn't know about Little Bob and the Lollipops. We had em!"

At the height of his popularity in the mid-1960s, singer, songwriter, drummer and bandleader Little Bob was south Louisiana’s reigning superstar, performing six nights a week and even hosting his own local television show. With a top-notch nine-piece band consisting of some of the area’s finest musicians such as ace saxophonist John Hart and Gabriel King, Little Bob absolutely dominated the area music scene for more than a decade. He also happened to record some of the finest soul music to ever come out of Louisiana.

In 1964 and he recorded a string of soul and R&B classics for the label throughout the next several years including Nobody But You, Look Out Mr. Heartache and the b-side party anthem, I Got Loaded, which still remains one of the most requested songs on Southwest Louisiana bandstands to this day. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.