A $2 home run can make the whole lot of clunkers worthwhile. Her “Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again" rates higher on the hit barometer.īut this is what a good DJ does: rediscover, repurpose, remake, remodel. This song, in its time, was far from Lyn Collins' “hit.” We’ve all heard her smash “Think (About It)” sampled in Rob Base and EZ-Rock’s “It Takes Two” ( Yeah! Woo! It takes two to make a thing go right, it takes two to make it outta sight!). If Lyn Collins “Fly Me To The Moon” doesn’t make the original irrelevant, check your pulse, hips, mojo. Men and women chopped off their hair, smashed their Johnny Winter records when they first heard the Ramones or Sex Pistols in the 70s. Her “Fly Me To The Moon” is a simultaneous rave-up and tear-down refashioning. In a time and place where women vocalists were (and still are) described as phantom artists only to be lifted up by men, Collins dances all over this standard of a track. But what's $2 on what could be a complete turn-around on “Fly Me To The Moon”? I was curious. I picked up a 45 of Lyn Collins' “Mama Feelgood,” backed with Frank Sinatra's “Fly Me To The Moon." And to be completely clear, Sinatra is not for me. The label produced work by James Brown, the JB’s, Hank Ballard, and Lyn Collins among so many others. People’s Records lasted from 1971-76, and hosted hot tracks. This dealer had tons of records on James Brown’s offshoot People’s Records label. A good rule of thumb-or wax, if you will-within the soul genre is you can’t really go wrong with a James Brown record. The price point allowed me to stretch out, take chances based on title, year, producer, label, and label design. In the world of record fairs, and in a world of rare records, this is rare.
I hit the jackpot in this year’s pilgrimage to the WFMU Record Fair-a dealer with hundreds of 60s and 70s soul 45s, each $2 a pop. For more information on the event, click here. The next Shake 'N' Vibrate is scheduled for Sunday, May 26 at 8 p.m. But here, readers can get a glimpse-or a listen-into some of what they’re in for.
LYN COLLINS FULL
To get the full taste of Shake N’ Vibrate, New Haveners still have to go to the events themselves.
LYN COLLINS SERIES
This is the latest installment on Shake N’ Vibrate, a monthly vinyl series at Cafe Nine led by musician, DJ, and filmmaker Brendan Toller.
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