Kenny Rogers and the First Edition – Just Dropped In
What’s this? Why on earth is the bearded chicken-botherer gracing these pages? Is Head Full of Snow really that desperate for something to put up at the weekend?
Maybe… But wait! This isn’t your normal Kenny Rogers. This is Kenny Rogers smacked off his tits on some hallucinogenic, psychedelic sound, whilst idling on a kaleidoscopic duvet.
No, I haven’t been at the happy pills. This is the coward of the county himself in his pre-country, pre-Santa beard guise, belting out (or miming in this instance) an acid-dipped tune, the lyrics to which wouldn’t have sat out of place on a watered-down, poppier version of Country Joe and the Fish’s debut album, Electric Music For the Mind and the Body.
Sporting a polo-neck sweater and some stripy trousers to boot, Kenny may look like someone’s dad trying to get down with the ‘kids’ but the tune’s bob-on, nonetheless.
Recorded for the subversive-lite American comedy show The Smother Brothers (on which Keith Moon infamously blew up his drum kit), let Kenny give it some welly with 1968’s ‘Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)’.
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