… to see what condition my condition was in. When Kenny Rogers was cool. I had a flash-back when I was working through lyrics for a new song. This song popped into my head. I looked it up on YouTube and — Poof!! — there it was.
What a song. According to Wikipedia, it was first recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1967, who rejected it. It was a hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition in 1968, at the apex of psychedelia in pop culture. Some of the lyrics are worth repeating here:
I woke up this mornin’ with the sundown shinin’ in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag, but then…
I tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was inI pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin’ out as I was a-crawlin’ in
I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
The video is simple but clever. Check it out.
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The video is on YouTube Channel WABCRADIO77, whose mission is to present classic “oldies” music the way it was meant to be – in it’s original form exactly as it sounded when the song was a hit on the radio. All the songs are played from original vinyl 45 RPM records. Very cool.