Just Dropped in ( to See What Condition My Condition was in ) - wikipedia Just Dropped in ( to See What Condition My Condition was in ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2008 ) `` Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In ) '' Single by Mickey Newbury from the album Harlequin Melodies Genre Psychedelic pop Songwriter ( s ) Mickey Newbury `` Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In ) '' is a counterculture era song written by Mickey Newbury and, in 1968, a chart hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be a warning about the dangers of using the drug. First recorded on October 10, 1967, by Teddy Hill & the Southern Soul as a single on Rice Records ( Rice 5028 b / w `` Stagger Lee '' ) and produced by Norro Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis covered the song on his album Soul My Way released November 1, 1967. `` Just Dropped In... '' by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition ( with Kenny Rogers on lead vocals ) peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. It was Rogers ' first top ten hit. The song captures the short - lived psychedelic era of the late 1960s, stands apart from the country folk harmonies that characterized most of the First Edition 's catalog, and got the group their first national TV audience on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was the group 's second single from their eponymous album, The First Edition. Producer Mike Post reversed a few riffs to create the intro ; the solo played by Glen Campbell was heavily compressed and a tremolo effect was used to achieve its sound. Another studio guitarist, Mike Deasy, provided the acoustic lead guitar parts. When Rogers signed with United Artists Records, in the mid-1970s after the group split, he re-recorded the track for his Ten Years of Gold album. Covers Bettye LaVette, Karen Records ( KA 1544 ), 1968, flip side to `` Get Away ''. On that release it is called `` What Condition My Condition Is In '' Styvar Manor, British group, 1970, issued as single on Polydor. Jim Turner of comedy troupe Duck 's Breath Mystery Theatre performed ( as his character Randee of the Redwoods ) a surprisingly faithful version on the Ducks ' 1986 album Born To Be Tiled. Die Haut, 1988, with Nick Cave as guest singer. Supergrass as a B - Side to their 1995 single Alright / Time Tinsley Ellis, 1997, on his 1997 album ' Fire It Up ( Tinsley Ellis album ) ' The Raymen, Death - Country / Goth - Americana - Billy band, 1998 Willie Nelson, on his 2001 album `` Rainbow Connection '' and his 2002 album The Great Divide Mojo Nixon, 2001 Children of Bodom, melodic death metal band, on the Japanese release of their `` Blooddrunk '' album as a bonus track and on their 2009 cover album `` Skeletons in the Closet '' Tom Jones, on the Deluxe Edition of `` Spirit in the Room '' in 2012 Murder by Death, Americana band, 2012 the Launderettes, Norwegian rock group, 2013, The Fantastics, Donegal - based band, 2014. Sinister Dexter, San Francisco soul / funk group, 2014 White Denim exclusively for the black comedy -- crime drama television series Fargo, which played over the credits of the `` Did you do this ? No, you did it ! '' episode of the second season in 2015. Abe Diddy and The Krautboys on the album Follow in 2016 Sharon Jones & The Dap - Kings, on the original motion picture soundtrack for the film Soul Men Reef for their compilation album Together. Jeff Walker Und Die Fluffers ( former lead singer of Carcass ), on album Welcome to Carcass Cuntry Sam Feldt, in his 2017 album Sunrise, with Girls Love DJs and Joe Cleere. Jacob Needham & The Blue Trees, a Southern Rock Group from Nashville, TN released `` Just Dropped In '' with Spectra Music Group on their debut album Procrastinated Memoirs '' April of 2018. Their version of the song brings out a hard more grungy sound while adding touches of mainstream influence to build and bring back a classic song that had such impact for its time. Their version of the song has already been making and name while reaching a new audience in the new millennial generation. In popular culture ( First Edition version ) The song is featured in a dream sequence from the Coen Brothers ' 1998 film The Big Lebowski. Additionally, it plays during the end credits of the 2000 video game Driver 2, the title screen and end credits of the 2013 video game Stick It To The Man, and is featured in the 2010 action movie Faster. It is also used is season 3, episode 1 of Chuck : `` Chuck Versus the Pink Slip ''. A short clip is heard in the 2015 HBO documentary Going Clear : Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It is also on the TV series Fargo, season 2 episode 7. References Jump up ^ Pemberton, Pat ( 21 May 2013 ). `` 10 Artists Who Switched Genres ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 July 2016. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 536. Jump up ^ `` Kenny Rogers Awards ''. AllMusic. 1938 - 08 - 21. Retrieved 2015 - 11 - 23. Jump up ^ `` Getaway - The Launderettes Songs, Reviews, Credits ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 2015 - 11 - 23. Jump up ^ `` White Denim -- `` Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In ) '' ( Mickey Newbury Cover ) ``. Jump up ^ Bush, John. `` Together, the Best of Reef ''. Allmusic. Retrieved 27 June 2013. Kenny Rogers Studio albums Love Lifted Me Kenny Rogers Daytime Friends Love or Something Like It The Gambler Kenny Gideon Share Your Love Love Will Turn You Around We 've Got Tonight Eyes That See in the Dark What About Me ? The Heart of the Matter They Do n't Make Them Like They Used To I Prefer the Moonlight Something Inside So Strong Love Is Strange Back Home Again If Only My Heart Had a Voice Vote for Love Across My Heart She Rides Wild Horses There You Go Again Back to the Well Water & Bridges The Love of God Amazing Grace You Ca n't Make Old Friends Collaboration albums Every Time Two Fools Collide ( with Dottie West ) Classics ( with Dottie West ) Timepiece ( with David Foster ) Christmas albums Christmas Once Upon a Christmas ( with Dolly Parton ) Christmas in America The Gift Christmas from the Heart Christmas with Kenny Christmas Collection Once Again It 's Christmas Compilations Ten Years of Gold The Kenny Rogers Singles Album Greatest Hits ( 1980 ) 20 Greatest Hits Duets The Kenny Rogers Story Love Is What We Make It Short Stories Greatest Hits ( 1988 ) Daytime Friends -- The Very Best of Kenny Rogers Live by Request 42 Ultimate Hits 21 Number Ones Notable singles `` That Crazy Feeling '' `` Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In ) '' `` But You Know I Love You '' `` Ruby, Do n't Take Your Love to Town '' `` Laura ( What 's He Got That I Ai n't Got ) '' `` Lucille '' `` Daytime Friends '' `` Sweet Music Man '' `` Every Time Two Fools Collide '' ( with Dottie West ) `` Love or Something Like It '' `` Anyone Who Is n't Me Tonight '' ( with Dottie West ) `` The Gambler '' `` All I Ever Need Is You '' ( with Dottie West ) `` She Believes in Me '' `` ' Til I Can Make It on My Own '' ( with Dottie West ) `` You Decorated My Life '' `` Coward of the County '' `` Do n't Fall in Love with a Dreamer '' ( with Kim Carnes ) `` Love the World Away '' `` Lady '' `` I Do n't Need You '' `` Share Your Love with Me '' `` Blaze of Glory '' `` Through the Years '' `` Love Will Turn You Around '' `` A Love Song '' `` We 've Got Tonight '' ( with Sheena Easton ) `` All My Life '' `` Scarlet Fever '' `` Islands in the Stream '' ( with Dolly Parton ) `` Eyes That See in the Dark '' `` This Woman '' `` Buried Treasure '' `` Together Again '' ( with Dottie West ) `` What About Me ? '' ( with Kim Carnes and James Ingram ) `` Evening Star '' `` Crazy '' `` Morning Desire '' `` Goodbye Marie '' `` Tomb of the Unknown Love '' `` Twenty Years Ago '' `` Make No Mistake, She 's Mine '' ( with Ronnie Milsap ) `` I Prefer the Moonlight '' `` The Factory '' `` I Do n't Call Him Daddy '' `` When You Put Your Heart in It '' `` Planet Texas '' `` The Vows Go Unbroken ( Always True to You ) '' `` Maybe '' ( with Holly Dunn ) `` Love Is Strange '' ( with Dolly Parton ) `` Crazy in Love '' `` If You Want to Find Love '' `` Ol ' Red '' `` Mary, Did You Know ? '' ( with Wynonna Judd ) `` The Greatest '' `` Buy Me a Rose '' ( with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean ) `` He Will, She Knows '' `` There You Go Again '' `` Homeland '' `` I Ca n't Unlove You '' Guest singles `` What Are We Doin ' in Love '' ( with Dottie West ) `` Real Love '' ( with Dolly Parton ) `` If I Ever Fall in Love Again '' ( with Anne Murray ) Related articles Discography The First Edition Kenny Rogers Roasters Book : Kenny Rogers Kenny Rogers and The First Edition Kenny Rogers Mary Arnold Thelma Camacho Jimmy Hassell John Hobbs Mickey Jones Gene Lorenzo Mike Settle Kin Vassy Terry Williams Studio albums The First Edition ( 1967 ) Ruby, Do n't Take Your Love To Town ( 1969 ) Something 's Burning ( 1970 ) Tell It All Brother ( 1970 ) Transition ( 1971 ) The Ballad of Calico ( 1972 ) I 'm Not Making Music for Money ( 1974 ) Singles `` Just Dropped In ( To See What Condition My Condition Was In ) '' `` But You Know I Love You '' `` Ruby, Do n't Take Your Love to Town '' `` Today I Started Loving You Again '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Just_Dropped_In_(To_See_What_Condition_My_Condition_Was_In)&oldid=854833798 '' Categories : 1967 songs Songs about drugs Kenny Rogers and The First Edition songs Songs written by Mickey Newbury Psychedelic pop songs Counterculture of the 1960s Lysergic acid diethylamide Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from August 2008 All articles needing additional references Talk About Wikipedia Français Norsk nynorsk Edit links This page was last edited on 14 August 2018, at 03 : 14 ( UTC ). 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Question: who wrote just dropped in to see what condition
Answer: Mickey Newbury