Jimmy Castor
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Jimmy Castor (born June 23, 1940 in New York City , † January 16, 2012 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) was an American musician .
Life
In his youth, Castor was friends with Frankie Lymon . He wrote the track I Promise to Remember , which became a chart hit for Lymon and his teenagers in 1956 . When Lymon left the teenagers' group in 1957, Castor replaced him without them being able to build on the successful time before. From 1960 he went solo and was particularly successful as a saxophonist and studio musician. He played z. B. Dave Cortez 's hit Rinky Dink and Little Eva's The Loco-Motion . He also published his own recordings. He had a top 40 hit in 1967 with the instrumental Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin 'You .
The Jimmy Castor Bunch was born in the early 1970s and had some success with funky novelty songs . Their first hit It's Just Begun from 1972 was not a chart hit , but it is one of the classics when it comes to hip-hop samples. This was followed by the Troglodyte (Cave Man) , a bizarre caveman song that reached number 6 on the Billboard charts and number 4 on the R&B charts in the United States and was a million seller. The phrase “What we're gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time”, spoken as an introduction, is very well known and is often used by music broadcasters when it comes to oldies or music reviews. With the Bertha Butt Boogie and King Kong , Castor and his "Bunch" had two more big hits that were made in the style of Troglodyte . He was successful in the US charts until the end of the 70s, from 1976 even without his accompanying band, after which his success dropped significantly.
In 1988 the duet Love Makes a Woman with Joyce Sims brought him to the attention again. He later got back on track with the teenagers who continued to exist and performed with them until the mid-90s.
Discography
Albums
- Hey Leroy (1967)
- It's Just Begun (1972)
- Phase Two (1972)
- Dimension III (1973)
- The Everything Man (1973)
- Butt of Course (1975)
- Supersound (1975)
- E Man Groovin '(1976)
- Maximum stimulation (1977)
Singles
- Hey, Leroy, Your Mama's Callin 'You (1967)
- Troglodyte (Cave Man) (1972)
- Luther the Anthropoid (Ape Man) (1973)
- Soul Serenade (1973)
- King Kong - Pt. I (1975)
- Potential (1975)
- The Bertha Butt Boogie - Part 1 (1975)
- Bom Bom (1976)
- Supersound (1976)
- Space Age (1977)
- I Love a Mellow Android (1977)
- Maximum stimulation (1978)
- Don't Do That! (1979)
- It Gets to Me (1985)
- Love Makes a Woman (with Joyce Sims , 1986)
Web links
- Jimmy Castor at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn, 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
- ↑ Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn, Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7
- ↑ Charts DE
- ↑ Funk saxophonist: Jimmy Castor is dead. In: Spiegel Online . January 18, 2012, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits. 1942-2004 . New York City, NY: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 92; for placement in the Billboard charts, see Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 97
- ↑ Teenagers Biography ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
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| SURNAME | Castor, Jimmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American R&B and radio musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2012 |
| Place of death | Las Vegas , Nevada |