The Jimmy Castor Bunch combining a big beat with spirited storytelling on records like “Troglodyte (Cave Man)†on RCA, which hit No. 6 on the pop charts in 1972 and sold a million copies. Another hit was “The Bertha Butt Boogie†in late 1974.
Jimmy Castor, a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter whose mastery of genres from doo-wop to Latin soul to funk, and instruments including saxophone and bongos earned him the title Everything Man, died on Monday in Henderson, Nev. He was 71.
The cause was heart failure, his son Jimmy Jr. said.
