What's that song from The Big Lebowski?!
Question:
What's that song from The Big Lebowski?
After "darkness warshed over The Dude" and it faded to the Jackie Treehorn presents: Gutterballs scene. The chorus goes "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in"
Answers:
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" is a song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, Newbury wrote it as a warning against the danger of using LSD. First recorded in 1967 by Jerry Lee Lewis, who rejected it, it was a hit for The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers on lead vocals) in 1968. It was Rogers's first top ten hit in the Billboard charts, but not typical of the country folk harmonies that characterized most of The First Edition's catalog. [1] However, the group were no strangers to rock music, bouncing among country, pop, rock, and folk.
The innovative song features Rogers on lead vocals and was the group's second single. The psychedelic hard rock arrangement made quite an impression in the music field. According to Rogers, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" was Jimi Hendrix's favorite song. This is possibly due to the way in which the guitars on the track were recorded, which was quite different from what was standard at the time. Producer Mike Post reversed a few riffs to create the unusual intro, and the proto-metal solo played by Glen Campbell was heavily reverberated. Another studio ace guitarist, Mike Deasy, provided the acoustic lead guitar parts throughout the song.
When Rogers signed to United Artists Records in the mid-1970s after the group split, he re-recorded the track for his Ten Years Of Gold album.
Due to its lengthy title, the song has picked up a number of nicknames from both the public and even record companies who press up the song. They are naturally shortened versions of the official title, such as "Just Dropped In", "I Just Dropped In", or simply, "Condition
In 1998, the song appeared—almost in its entirety—during a psychedelic dream sequence in the cult film The Big Lebowski. A clip of the song serves as the background to the main menu of the film's collector's edition DVD.