Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now Original James Brown Funk LP
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Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now


Label: People Records
Catalog#: PE 6605
Original Issue
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Record VG++
Cover Ringwear, cornerwear cut corner top right ( see pic)
Country: US
Released: 1975
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Funk

Credits
Producer - James Brown

Tracklist

A1 A Foggy Day 4:02
A2 To Each His Own 3:08
A3 Put It On The Line 3:25
A4 Mr. Big Stuff 3:59
A5 How Long Can I Keep It Up 5:30

B1 Baby Don't Do It 3:25
B2 Backstabbers 5:40
B3 Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again... 3:28
B4 Try A Little Tenderness 3:10
B5 If You Don't Know Me By Now 5:22






Nicknamed "The Female Preacher," Lyn Collins was discovered in the early '70s by James Brown, who was making the transition to the hardest funk phase of his career. Collins sent Brown a demo tape and he responded by essentially putting her on standby in 1970, when Marva Whitney left the Revue. Former vocalist Vicki Anderson elected to rejoin, however, so Brown instead invited Collins to come to Georgia for a recording session in early 1971, which produced the single ‘Wheel of Life.’

By the end of that year, Anderson was ready to leave again, and Collins officially joined the James Brown Revue. In 1972, Brown's People Records label released Collins' self-penned single ‘Think (About It)’; produced by Brown, it became her first and biggest hit and made her the most commercially successful female singer in Brown's camp. Collins' first full-length album, also titled Think (About It), was released later in the year.

Collins continued to record singles for Brown through 1973, also fulfilling her heavy touring commitments as a member of the Revue. Collins' second album, Check It Out if You Don't Know Me by Now, was released in 1975.
This is the mellower of her two LPs for the People label, though still pretty fantastic. At some level, it seems like Lyn is taking on the rest of the soul industry, showing them that she can kick some major booty on her interpretations of hits like ‘Backstabbers’, ‘If You Don't Know Me By Now’, ‘Try A Little Tenderness’, and ‘Mr Big Stuff’, which is one of her best funky tracks ever.

She also shines extremely well on the original cuts, especially the funky classic ‘Rock Me Again & Again & Again’, plus the often-overlooked mellow soul groovers ‘To Each His Own’, ‘Put It On The Line’, and ‘How Long Can I Keep It Up’.

and soulful funky songs like A Foggy Day..


Lyn Collins - Put It On The Line - Live @ Moods Zurich

Has a distinctive string melody..


RIP. all the funk legends are dying one by one.








Lyn Collins and James Brown - Backstabbers

This is an outstanding example of the way James Brown could take another group's song, change it up and make it his own!!! No one else could do this as well as he did.

Wicked cover off Backstabbers (originally by the O Jays)