Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose/What The World Needs Now Is Love
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose is Collins’ doing a cover of one of her mentor, James Brown’s numbers. The song is re-arranged however, allowing Collins’…
We Want To Parrty, Parrty, Parrty/You Can’t Beat Two People In Love
Lyn Collins was one of the many women such as Vicki Anderson and Tammi Terrell, who were members of James Brown’s Review. We Want To Parrty is from Collins’…
Me And My Baby Got A Good Thing Going/I’ll Never Let You Break My Heart Again
About 6 years ago I picked up one of Lyn Collins’ LPs at the Paris flea market. That’s about the last time I saw one of her records in a store. You can…
Please Make The World A Better Place/Take Me Just As I Am
Take Me Just As I Am is one of those dark and funky pieces that really let Lyn Collins’ vocals shine and James Brown’s production style show through. A…
Mr. Big Stuff/Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again
James Brown and Lyn Collins start off this 45 by giving a go at Jean Knight’s hit Mr. Big Stuff. Their take is a little faster, but lacks some of the soul of…
One of the best finds from NYC, partly to do with the cheap price I bought it for. Lyn Collins, as everyone knows, was a long time member of the James Brown review.…
I swore to God that I bought an original copy of this album 7 years ago at the Paris flea market. Turns out that it was a re-issue. What makes it worse is that I passed…
This version of Mama Feelgood is taken from the Black Caesar soundtrack and is on mono. The flipside, Fly Me To The Moon, is in stereo. The A-side is a classic that…
Rob Base made Lyn Collins’ Think a hit all over again, which is probably why Bobton Records got Ms. Collins, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis and others into the studio…
You Can’t Love Me, If You Don’t Respect Me/Rock Me Again & Again & Again
Two classic cuts by the Female Preacher Lyn Collins from her Check Me Out If You Don’t Know Me By Now LP. The powerful play of the JB’s anchors each song.…
It took me a damn long time to find this. Then of course, I started seeing it everywhere. Is it just me or could Think be one of the greatest songs of all time? I’m…
