"Just Dropped In ..." was recorded by The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers on lead vocals) in October 1967, and peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawling out as I was a-crawling in I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my … Said Post, "What became the hit but the last thing in with the guy who I …
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The idea was to have four lead singers in the group, each singing three songs on the album, which would provide four different sounds to choose from.
When the group needed another song to complete the album, Rogers brought in the Jerry Lee Lewis version of "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," which Post described as "Dope and Roll." Meanwhile, some members of the New Christy Minstrels (including Kenny Rogers) broke away to form their own group to do an elective mix of pop, rock and country songs. They decided to perform it as a psychedelic song, and it became a hit and helped establish Rogers as a star. In addition to Rogers, the group's vocalists were Mike Settle, Terry Williams and Thelma Camacho.Post gathered some of the top studio musicians in the area, including Glen Campbell and Hal Blaine, to do the backing and used tricks innovated by The Beatles, like phasing and backward mastering, to give the song the trippy feel that was popular at the time.This was released in 1968 to a lukewarm reception, but when the group appeared on the Smothers Brothers show to lip-sync in a psychedelic video, the song shot into the top 10.According to Kenny Rogers, Jimi Hendrix once told him that this was his all-time favorite song.The song can be heard, almost in its entirety, during a psychedelic dream sequence in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film Go beyond the Wall of Voodoo with this cinematic songwriter.The former Dead Kennedys frontman on the past, present and future of the band, what music makes us "pliant and stupid," and what he learned from Alice Cooper. Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In) (Je suis juste passé pour voir dans quel état était mon état) Cette chanson de 1973 avait déjà été enregistrée un an auparavant par Jerry Lee Lewis, mais celui-ci l'avait ensuite laissé de côté. It was Rogers' first top ten hit. "The guitarist/songwriter explains how he came up with his signature sound, and deconstructs some classic Fear Factory songs. Written by country music "outlaw" Mickey Newbury as a song about junkies, this was first recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on a country album in 1967, but he vetoed releasing it as a single. The last was Lauren Bacall, who passed away in 2014.David Bowie's "Heroes" was about his producer Tony Visconti and his girlfriend, but Bowie didn't admit this until the '00s, since Visconti was married at the time.Outkast's "Hey Ya" was the first song in history to rack up 1 million downloads.Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me. The song captures the psychedelic era of the late 1960s in stark contrast to the country folk harmonies that characterized most of The First Edition's catalog, and it garnered the group's first national TV audience on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.