Vinyl Wednesday: Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now
The title is a whole mouth full.. and the album is, as you can see, produced by the "minister of the new new super heavy funk" himself, James Brown. Lyn Collins, famous for the infectious hit single "Think (about it)", worked with the James Brown band in the 70's. In the late 1980s and early '90s, Collins attempted a comeback as a dance/club diva, recording the house single "Shout" for Belgium's ARS label. In 1993, Collins' profile was given a boost by female dancehall singer Patra, who invited Collins to perform on her hit remake of "Think (About It)"; partly due to the resulting interest, her two official albums were reissued in England and the Netherlands. Collins continued to tour and perform, most notably at the European Jazz/Funk Festival (in both 1998 and 1999) and the Montreux Jazz Festival. In February 2005, Collins embarked on her first ever solo tour. For three weeks, she performed in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The tour was produced by the Soulpower organization. Sadly, shortly after returning from her European tour, Collins died aged 56 in Pasadena, California from cardiac arrhythmia.
Unfortunately, once again, the band isn't documented on the record sleeve. There are strings, hobos, flutes and a full funk band, all nameless. If you listen carefully you can hear Fred Wesley's trombone, St Clair Pinckney's tenorsax and also Maceo Parker on alto. Maceo has a solo in "We want to Parrty, Parrty, Parrty". This is Track five (bonus track, reissue only) of the album (1995 on P-Vine Records/Polydor K.K. in Japan). The album was released the first time in 1975 (with different track numbers). Actually I have a UK pressing from 1988, so this song isn't on my own copy but I found it on Youtube:
While youtubing, a bit off-topic, I came across this awfully funky video of one of my favourite JB songs:
The dancers are so funny.. and the band is tight! And all in full colour. Awkward audience, probably the tv producer told them to sit down, hard to understand..
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - The title is a whole mouth full.. and the album is, as you can see, produced by the minister of the new new super heavy funk himself, James Brown.Lyn Collins, famous for the infectious hit single Think (about it), worked with the James Brown band in the 70's.In the late 1980s and early '90s, Collins attempted a comeback as a dance/club diva, recording the house single Shout for Belgium's ARS label. In 1993, Collins' profile was given a boost by female dancehall singer Patra, who invited Collins to perform on her hit remake of Think (About It); partly due to the resulting interest, her two official albums were reissued in England and the Netherlands. Collins continued to tour and perform, most notably at the European Jazz/Funk Festival (in both 1998 and 1999) and the Montreux Jazz Festival. In February 2005, Collins embarked on her first ever solo tour. For three weeks, she performed in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The tour was produced by the Soulpower organization. Sadly, shortly after returning from her European tour, Collins died aged 56 in Pasadena, California from cardiac arrhythmia.Unfortunately, once again, the band isn't documented on the record sleeve. There are strings, hobos, flutes and a full funk band, all nameless. If you listen carefully you can hear Fred Wesley's trombone, St Clair Pinckney's tenorsax and also Maceo Parker on alto.Maceo has a solo in We want to Parrty, Parrty, Parrty. This is Track five (bonus track, reissue only) of the album (1995 on P-Vine Records/Polydor K.K. in Japan). The album was released the first time in 1975 (with different track numbers). Actually I have a UK pressing from 1988, so this song isn't on my own copy but I found it on Youtube:While youtubing, a bit off-topic, I came across this awfully funky video of one of my favourite JB songs:The dancers are so funny.. and the band is tight! And all in full colour. Awkward audience, probably the tv producer told them to sit down, hard to understand..
