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{{Infobox song
| name       = Troglodyte (Cave Man)
| cover      = troglodyte(JCB).jpg
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| border     = yes
| caption    = Single cover artwork
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Jimmy Castor Bunch]]
| album      = [[It's Just Begun]]
| B-side     = [[I Promise to Remember]]
| released   = 1972
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| genre      = [[Funk]]<ref name="Breithaupt 1996">{{cite book|title= Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s|first1=Don|last1=Breithaupt|first2= Jeff|last2= Breithaupt|date= October 15, 1996|chapter= Jiffy Pop: Novelty Records|page= 116|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's Griffin]]|isbn=031214704X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMPCAwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
| length     = 3:36<br />3:22 (7" version)
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
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| misc       = {{Extra album cover
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| type    = single
| cover   = Troglodyte(alternate).jpg
| border  = yes
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| caption = <small>Alternate single artwork, as released in Germany. Derivative of ''It's Just Begun'''s artwork.</small>
}}
}}
"'''Troglodyte (Cave Man)'''", originally released as "'''Troglodite'''",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45rpms.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=5695 |title=Jimmy Castor Bunch |website=45rpms.com |date= |accessdate=2016-10-07}}</ref> 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'' Hot 100]]. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the [[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972|No. 80 song for 1972]].
In Canada, the song reached No. 1 for two weeks in July 1972,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.7669.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - July 15, 1972}}</ref> and was No. 29 on the ''RPM''/Kowal year-end chart.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://hitsofalldecades.com/chart_hits/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2940&Itemid=49 | title=Barry's Hits of All Decades Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits }}</ref>
"Troglodyte" sold over half-a-million copies, and has been certified gold by the [[RIAA]].<ref name="RIAA">[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.</ref>
==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 [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] in [[hip-hop music|hip-hop]] and [[dance music]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/01/remembering-jimmy-castor-the-funk-legend-behind-troglodyte.html|title=Remembering Jimmy Castor, the funk legend behind 'Troglodyte'|date=2012-01-17|website=LA Times Blogs - Pop & Hiss|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/arts/music/jimmy-castor-musician-who-mastered-many-genres-dies-at-71.html|title=Jimmy Castor, Musician Who Mastered Many Genres, Dies at 71|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2012-01-17|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref>
==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (1972)
!Peak<br>position
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|align="left"|US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]<ref>{{cite book |title=  Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=148}}</ref>
|align="center"|6
|-
|align="left"|US  Billboard [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Best Selling Soul Singles]]<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=107}}</ref>
|align="center"|4
|}
==References==
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[[Category:1972 songs]]
[[Category:1972 singles]]
[[Category:Fiction set in prehistory]]
[[Category:RCA Records singles]]
[[Category:Novelty songs]]