The Jimmy Castor Bunch
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Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, May 1967
Jimmy Castor, Tim Buckley, Jimmy Ruffin, Judy Collins ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 14 July 1972
"YOU KNOW, we recorded the album for Columbia but they just did not want it. They were too busy with Sly and Chicago; Santana and ...
Report by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 5 September 1974
LAST WEEK, Rare Earth punked out of a gig at the Apollo, a rare honor for which Mick Jagger might conceivably give up eyeshadow. The ...
Jimmy Castor: The Everything Man
Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 21 September 1974
SUBTLE ONE, that title. See, in the centre of the sleeve there's a picture of the dude who is presumably Jimmy Castor wearing a standard ...
Jimmy Castor: Boogieing To The Top
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1 April 1975
JIMMY CASTOR confesses that, right now, he is feeling elated. And one look at the charts or a few hours listening to nearly every r&b ...
The Spinners, the Jimmy Castor Bunch, Ben E. King, Sister Sledge: Manchester Opera House
Live Review by Idris Walters, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
ATLANTIC'S Supersoul On-Tour '75 (direct descendant from the sixties' Stax/Volt Review) hit the Manchester Opera House after a successful opening night at the Liverpool Empire. ...
Sister Sledge; Jimmy Castor; Ben E. King; The Spinners: Return of the Soul Package
Report and Interview by Bob Fisher, Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 19 April 1975
From the great lost soul label of Atlantic it came, writhing with synchronized funk, its many black heads chanting and wailing. Nothing like it had ...
Ben E. King, The Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Spinners, Sister Sledge: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Robin Katz, Sounds, 26 April 1975
SOUL IS ALIVE... ALIVE ...ALIVE... ALIVE ...
Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, May 1975
From 50s doowop to 70s superfunk... this man has done it all. And he's still doin' it. TONY CUMMINGS on the rise of Jimmy Castor ...
Jimmy Castor: The Everything Man Really Has Everything
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 27 May 1975
ON REFLECTION, the two most successful names to emerge from the highly successful Atlantic Super-Soul concert tour were Jimmy Castor and Sister Sledge. ...
Bertha Butt meets Darth Vader... courtesy of Jimmy Castor, of course!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 July 1978
WHEN IT comes to novelty disco tunes, Jimmy Castor has proven himself to be irresistible. Right from 'Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You', through the ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 19 June 1979
AFTER AN absence of one album, the Jimmy Castor Bunch are back within the Atlantic family – this time on the Cotillion label. ...
Remembering The Everything Man: A Jimmy Castor Interview
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 20 January 2012
Angus Batey pays tribute to the late Jimmy Castor, and we publish an extract from an extensive interview the journalist conducted with Castor over a ...
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