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Jimmy Castor & The Juniors
12+ albums
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Jimmy Castor (June 23, 1940 – January 16, 2012) was an American pop and funk musician. He is best known as fun disco/funk saxophonist and leader of The Jimmy Castor Bunch, with his biggest hit single being 1972's million seller, "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" Castor started as a doo-wop singer in New York. He wrote and recorded "I Promise to Remember" in 1956. Castor then replaced Frankie Lymon in The Teenagers in 1957 before switching to the saxophone in 1960. He had a solo hit with "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You" on Smash Records in 1966. Castor also played sax on Dave "Baby" Cortez's hit "Rinky Dink." He formed the Jimmy Castor Bunch in 1972 and signed with RCA. As leader of The Jimmy Castor Bunch in the 1970s, and also as a solo artist, he has released several successful albums and singles. The group reached the peak of their commercial success in 1972 with the release of their album, It's Just Begun, which featured two hit singles: the title track and "Troglodyte (Cave Man)," which was a large hit in the U.S., peaking at #6 in the Billboard Hot 100. The track stayed in the chart for 14 weeks and was a million seller by 30 June 1972, and received a gold disc award from the R.I.A.A. Castor continued the trend in 1975 with "The Bertha Butt Boogie" and later recorded "E-Man Boogie," "King Kong," "Bom Bom," and "Potential." The Castor band included keyboardist/trumpeter Gerry Thomas, bassist Doug Gibson, guitarist Harry Jensen, conga player Lenny Fridle, Jr., and drummer Bobby
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Mark Lamarr's Doo Wop Underground
The Everything Man: the best of the Jimmy Castor Bunch
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Doo Wop Underground
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Street Corner Essentials
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This Girl of Mine / Somebody Mentioned My Name
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Doo Wop Underground vol.1
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A Million Dollar$ Worth Of Doo-Wop: Vol. 19
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A Million Dollars Worth of Doo-Wop Vol 19
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Doo Wop Under Ground (Disc 1)
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Doo Wop Jukebox Hits #3 Von 10 CD's
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Before They Were Hits Or We Did It First: Vol. 7
I Promise to Remember Yesterday