I JUST DROPPED IN

Created on 09/02/2001
Latest update on 20/02/2024

Artist: Teddy Hill & The Southern Soul
Author: Mickey Newbury
Label: Rice
Year: 1967

Covers:

1967:

Jerry Lee Lewis [on lp Soul My Way as Just Dropped In]

1968:

First Edition [with Kenny Rogers as Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In); top 5 US and favorite track of Jimi Hendrix]

1968:

Bettye LaVette

1968:

Mickey Newbury [author on lp Harlequin Melodies]

1977:

Kenny Rogers [re-recording]

1988:

Die Haut [vocal: Nick Cave]

1991:

Mojo Nixon

1995:

Supergrass

1997:

Tinsley Ellis

2002:

Willie Nelson

2002:

Tom Jones

2005:

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings [in film Soul Men]

2020:

Gretchen Peters

Kenny Rogers' version with The First Edition defies the test of time. His name wasn't even associated with mainstream Nashville country when he cut it. His Just Dropped In sounds even psychedelic, enough for the Coen Brothers to use it in The Big Lebowski thirty years later. In fact, Mickey Newbury wrote the song as a warning against LSD. More customers dropped in, as it's a Mickey Newbury song. See: Weeping Annaleah and Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings. Again, the author was not the first to cut it.

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