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Remembering Jimmy Castor, The Funk Legend Behind 'Troglodyte'
latimes.com 4 weeks agoReally, all you need to do to appreciate the music of Jimmy Castor, who died in Las Vegas on Monday at the age of 64, is to scroll below or watch the proto-video for the Jimmy Castor Bunch's freaky song "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" from 1972, one of the weirdest, hardest funk jams you'll ever hear. It kicks off with spoken word introduction, eases into a rhythm, shifts into drive and then just keeps going, one hard riff that moves through the track -- about a cave man looking for love -- while Castor barks out t
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R&B Singer Jimmy Castor Dies Of Cancer
nydailynews.com 4 weeks agoJimmy Castor, a Bronx kid who started singing on street corners and later scored with two of the all-time great R&B street records, "Hey Leroy" and "Troglodyte," died Monday in Henderson, Nev.
















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