{"id":705,"date":"2010-07-06T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=705"},"modified":"2012-08-03T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:19:45","slug":"lyn-collins-give-it-up-or-turnit-a-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Lyn Collins – Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Lyn Collins – Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the middle of the first authentic, brain-baking, sweat-inducing heatwave of the summer of two-thousand-ten.
\nThe Fourth of July festivities were an authentic pain in the ass. The fam and I have been heading down to Asbury Park for the fireworks for the last three years, on account of it\u2019s been a very chill scene. Unfortunately\/fortunately, the restoration of Asbury Park, which has made the town a very cool place to be has increased its appeal to the point where the 4th of July turned the city into a veritable mob scene with near-gridlock conditions, and the Funky16Corners-mobile and all that sailed upon her were forced out of Asbury Park, first to Ocean Grove (which was also packed to capacity) and then further south into Bradley Beach* until we located a parking space (my three-year-old son \u2018Thanks for parking Daddy!!\u2019) well over a mile away (maybe two) from the fireworks about 10 seconds before the fireworks commenced.
\nWe were a long way from the boom-boom<\/em>, but the rockets red glare was still visible and the kids dug it, so all things considered it was enough of a success to keep the peace (but also enough to let Mrs Corners and I know that we were going to have to retool the entire Independence Day experience next year).
\nThat said, I couldn\u2019t very well let the descent of the oppressive heat go by without whipping a little bit of volcanic funk on you as the accompanying soundtrack.
\nHows about some Lyn Collins?<\/strong>
\nI thought you might like that\u2026<\/em>
\nArguably the pinnacle of that rarified species known as James Brown\u2019s<\/strong> Funky Divas, Miz Collins, aka the Female Preacher is best remembered as the woman responsible for the 1972 atomic explosion known as \u2018Think (About It)\u2019 one of the funkiest records ever recorded and the very heavily sampled source for the heart and soul of Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock\u2019s \u2018It Takes Two\u2019<\/strong>, a 45 that I pack in my record box on the reg on account of it\u2019s a funky killer all on its own.
\nThe record I bring you today is something from a few years further down Lyn Collins discography, her 1974 cover of the Godfather\u2019s 1969 hit, \u2018Give It Or Turnit A Loose\u2019. For some bizarre reason I was unaware of this record\u2019s existence until recently, and when I heard it I was filled with an odd mixture of \u2018DAMN this record\u2019s hot\u2019 and \u2018Where has this been all my life?\u2019 but more importantly \u2018Where can I get myself a copy?, the answer to the last question being answered within a few weeks.
\nAside from being Soul Brother Number One, Mr Dynamite, Mr Please Please Please and the Hardest Working Man In Show Business, James Brown was above all an astute judge of talent, packing his band with dead on the super heavy funk players, and his stable of performers with some of the finest female soul and funk singers to have ever graced this mortal coil. I mean, sure Lyn Collins was bad-ass, but when you step back and realize that she stood alongside voices like Vicki Anderson<\/strong> and Marva Whitney<\/strong> it\u2019s an awful lot to take in.
\nCollins’ version of the tune is updated to the slightly smoother, certainly more synthesized 1974-era funk, but it still kicks ass in a BIG way. There\u2019s all the crispness of your run of the mill James Brown production, as well as the complex, clockwork funk, but there\u2019s something else at work, the heart of which is Lyn Collin\u2019s mighty voice.
\nCollins had the ability to leap from a soulful growl to a jagged edged scream in no time at all, and she does so several times in the course of this record.
\nWhile there are synthesizers, and it was 1974, and I don\u2019t doubt for a second that this record set any number of discotheques afire, there\u2019s never any question that the music pouring from the grooves is anything but funk.
\nSo, get up out of your seat, on your feet and start moving your ass. If you thought you were done sweating, you have another think coming brothers and sisters.
\nSee you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n


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*Yes, I know these town names are meaningless to people outside of the area. Please bear with me…
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