Australian singles chart:
Troglodyte (Cave Man) entered the Kent charts on 19 June 1972 and peaked at #13. It was #86 on the Top 100 of 1972.
Songwriters:
Castor Bunch
Producers:
Castor-Pruitt Productions
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
Wikipedia:
Jimmy Castor was an American funk, R&B, and soul musician, credited with vocals, saxophone and composition. His biggest hit single was the US million-seller Troglodyte (Cave Man). The song was often sampled in American hip-hop music and dance music.
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).
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte
Lyrics (spoken):
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time
When the only people that existed were troglodytes
Cave men… cave women… Neanderthal… troglodytes
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