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Troglodyte (Cave Man)

Field	Value
name	Troglodyte (Cave Man)
image	Troglodyte cave man jimmy castor bunch US single.png
border	no
caption	Side A of the US single
type	single
artist	Jimmy Castor Bunch
album	It's Just Begun
B-side	I Promise to Remember
released	1972
genre	Funk
length	3:36
3:22 (7" version)
label	RCA

| B-side = I Promise to Remember 3:22 (7" version)

"Troglodyte (Cave Man)", originally released as "Troglodite", is a 1972 novelty funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch. In the US, it peaked at No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard ranked it as the No. 80 song for 1972. It peaked at #2 on the Cashbox charts as well.

In Canada, the song reached No. 1 for two weeks in July 1972, and was No. 29 on the RPM/Kowal year-end chart.

"Troglodyte" sold over half-a-million copies, and has been certified gold by the RIAA.

Background

A character introduced in the song, Bertha Butt ("one of the Butt Sisters"), was featured in many later Castor Bunch songs, including "The Bertha Butt Boogie" (1975).

The song has been sampled in hip-hop and dance music.

Chart performance

Chart (1972)	Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100	6
US Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles	4

References

(October 15, 1996). "Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s". [[St. Martin's Press.
"Jimmy Castor Bunch".
"RPM Top 100 Singles - July 15, 1972".
"Barry's Hits of All Decades Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits".
[https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=JIMMY+CASTOR+BUNCH&ti=TROGLODYTE RIAA - TROGLODYTE June 30, 1972 ] Retrieved 12 April 2020.
(2012-01-17). "Remembering Jimmy Castor, the funk legend behind 'Troglodyte'".
Martin, Douglas. (2012-01-17). "Jimmy Castor, Musician Who Mastered Many Genres, Dies at 71". The New York Times.
Whitburn, Joel. (2013). "Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012". Record Research.
Whitburn, Joel. (2004). "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004". Record Research.

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