Jimmy Castor 去世

以1972年暢銷曲"Troglodyte (Cave Man)"出名的Jimmy Castor Bunch合唱團的領隊Jimmy Castor 元月16日去世（69歲），Jimmy 去11月就因心臟病住院，而且做了心導管手術。


Jimmy Castor出生於紐約Bronx，是一位R＆B歌星、作曲、薩克斯風樂手及編曲人，當他讀高中的時候就為Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers 寫了一首 "I Promise To Remember" (#57-1956)，後來他加入了Frankie Lymon的哥哥Louis的Teen Chords合唱團，然後組了自己的樂隊，以"Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" (#31) 成名。

1972年Jimmy Castor Bunch合唱團終於以"Troglodyte (Cave Man)"這首歌進入Top10，得到排行榜第6名，之後他陸續推出過不少歌，其中名次較好的是1975年獲得16名的的"The Bertha Butt Boogie"。

1980年代Jimmy Castor有了自己的Long Distance唱片公司，1992年還曾在迷你電視劇集"The Jacksons: An American Dream"當中客串演出。

"Troglodyte (Cave Man)"是一首全曲以口語配節奏感很強背景音樂完成的歌，表現方式很特殊。



TROGLODYTE (CAVE MAN)

Jimmy Castor [Bunch]





What we're gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.

When the only people that existed were troglodytes...cave men...

cave women...Neanderthal...troglodytes. Let's take the average

cave man at home, listening to his stereo. Sometimes he'd get up,

try to do his thing. He'd begin to move, something like this:

"Dance...dance". When he got tired of dancing alone, he'd look

in the mirror: "Gotta find a woman gotta find a woman gotta find a

woman gotta find a woman". He'd go down to the lake where all the

woman would be swimming or washing clothes or something. He'd look

around and just reach in and grab one. "Come here...come here".

He'd grab her by the hair. You can't do that today, fellas, cause

it might come off. You'd have a piece of hair in your hand and she'd

be swimming away from you (ha-ha). This one woman just lay there,

wet and frightened. He said: "Move...move". She got up. She was a

big woman. BIG woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one

of the Butt sisters. He didn't care. He looked up at her and said:

"Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me

sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!". She looked down on him.

She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said

(falsetto):

"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". He said: "Wha?". She said (falsetto):

"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". You know what he said? He started it way

back then. I wouldn't lie to you. When she said (falsetto)

"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy" he said "Right on! Right on! Hotpants!

Hotpants! Ugh...ugh...ugh".