The main reason is so that my brothers and I have a scrapbook of our years together as a band.  But it's more than that.  The Caruso company consisted of a long series of side musicians, road crew members, secretaries, and volunteers.  And after a decade and a half of making music together, traveling across the midwest many times over, we made a lot of friends.  Many of these people have written to me from all over the country with their stories and sentiments about what Caruso meant to them through the years.  We were extremely lucky to have such nice people onstage with us and in the audience rooting for us.  This page, like much of this site, is for all of the people who shared the ride with us.

One lucky thing about putting your family name on band merchandise is that everyone in your family wants to own them.  In the case of the Caruso family, my Dad had 11 brothers and sisters, so we had a ton of Caruso aunts, uncles and cousins, many of whom helped us advertise by wearing our name.  So about once a year, the band would put out new products with the Caruso name to help advertise an album or tour, or to help pay the expenses of running the band.  Everything on this page is vintage -- it's not available to buy unless you can find it on eBay.