Re: Jimmy Castor/Dennis Coffey

Colin Millar
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:08:24 GMT

> > Also ran across a Jimmy Castor Bunch LP, same question: Which
> > album, if all or any, is a rarity or funnnnnkkkkkaaaaayyyyy!?
> >
>
> I guess the funkiest LP is "It's Just Begun". It's not a rarity, but
> it is very funky - especially the title track. I've got a question
> about this song actually. It's on one of the Ultimate Breaks and
> Beats and it has got the spoken "Let's go back - back in to time"
> intro (sampled on something in the 80's - some Coldcut remix I
> think). The version on the album is the same apart from not having
> this intro. Was the intro on the 7" or was it added on by the UBB
> people - in which case, where did it actually come from?

I haven't heard the UBB version but the intro to 'Troglodyte (Cave
Man)' on the 'Its Just Begun' LP starts 'Let go back. Way back. Back
into time where the only people who existed were troglodytes'. Same
intro perhaps? Seems likely.

> His earlier stuff (60's) is latin boogaloo type stuff. I've got "Hey
> Leroy", which is good but very different to the 70's funk material.
> I've got another of his 70's albums which isn't so good. It's got a
> song on it about Dracula. I think a lot of his stuff was a bit on
> the wacky side. I think it was JC who did a song called "Bertha Butt
> Boogie" about a cavewoman!

I've got the album with that Dracula song on it. Didn't think much of
it either but there's one alright song on it that has the 'feel the
rhythm in your butt, get up' that Izit sampled on 'Stories'. Sorry the
part of my brain that remembers song and album titles is away on
holiday at the moment. ('E-Man Boogie' rings a bell somewhere).

Colin.

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