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Thread #120019   Message #2702382
Posted By: irishenglish
17-Aug-09 - 02:39 PM
Thread Name: Yo Mama-Insults in songs & rhymes
Subject: RE: Yo Mama-Insults in songs & rhymes
Azizi, no probem... E-man stands for Everything man, since Jimmy plays sax, percussion, sings, etc. My father briefly worked with Jimmy, sometime before Hey Leroy came out in '66. In NY circles Jimmy had a name I guess-he had written "I Promise To Remember" for Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers...was even filling in for Frankie on occasion (Frankie was said to be 30 going on 13). Jimmy is actually living in Vegas now and attempting a comeback, he has a website and a facebook page. Believe it or not, even after in his heyday hanging out with Hendrix and Elton John and people like that, 40 years later he still remembered my dad, and we've shared emails back and forth the last few years catching up. The funny thing is I knew some of his other songs like Troglodyte and the gritty It's Just Begun for years, but I had no idea it was Jimmy!