Hello everyone. This is my first request coming back from Manila for Shelley Buzan Briggs. Hope its ok Shelley. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) is a counterculture era song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be a warning against the danger of using LSD. First recorded October 10, 1967 by Teddy Hill & The Southern Soul as a single on Rice Records (Rice 5028 b/w Stagger Lee) produced by Norro Wilson followed soon thereafter by Jerry Lee Lewis for the album Soul My Way, who rejected its release as a single, the song was a hit for The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers on lead vocals) in 1968. It was Rogers first top ten hit in the Billboard charts, and got the group their first national TV audience on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The song captures the short-lived psychedelic era of the late 60s, and stands apart from the country folk harmonies that characterized most of The First Editions catalog.[1] The song features Rogers on lead vocals and was the groups second single from the bands eponymous album The First Edition. Producer Mike Post reversed a few riffs to create the intro, and the solo played by Glen Campbell was heavily compressed and used a tremolo effect to achieve its sound. Another studio guitarist, Mike Deasy, provided the acoustic lead guitar parts. When Rogers signed to United Artists Records in the mid-1970s after the group split, he re-recorded the track for his Ten Years of Gold album. The track was covered by Bettye LaVette on Karen Records (KA 1544) in 1968 as the flip side to the track Get away. On that release it was misnamed What Condition My Condition Is In. Jim Turner of the comedy troupe Ducks Breath Mystery Theatre performed (as his character Randee of the Redwoods) a surprisingly faithful version on the Ducks 1986 album Born To Be Tiled. A cover version of the song appears on the album Welcome to Carcass Cuntry by Jeff Walker Und Die Fluffers (former lead singer of Carcass). Another cover version of the song appears on the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Soul Men by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Willie Nelson covered the song on his 2001 album Rainbow Connection and his 2002 album The Great Divide. Another version was released on the Deluxe Edition of Tom Jones Spirit in the Room in 2012. Covered by Supergrass as a B-Side to their 1995 single Alright/Time. Also covered by melodic death metal band Children of Bodom on their Blooddrunk album as a bonus track. Covered in 2001 by Mojo Nixon. The song was covered in 2012 by Americana band Murder by Death. The song was covered by Reef for their compilation album Together.[2] The song was cover in 2013 by the Norwegian rock group, The Launderettes[3] The song was covered by the San Francisco soul/funk group Sinister Dexter in 2014
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