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Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, until 1970 billed as the First Edition, were an American rock band. The band's style was difficult to singularly classify, as it incorporated elements of country, rock and psychedelic pop. Its stalwart members were Kenny Rogers (lead vocals and bass guitar), Mickey Jones (drums and percussion) and Terry Williams (guitar and vocals). The band formed in 1967, with folk musician Mike Settle (guitar and backing vocals) and the operatically trained Thelma Camacho (lead vocals) completing the lineup.
As the counterculture of the 1960s was developing, the First Edition signed with Reprise Records in 1967 and had their first big hit in early 1968 with the psychedelic single "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (US No. 5). After other chart hits, "But You Know I Love You" (US No. 19) and "Tell It All Brother" (US No. 17), the group, newly billed as "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition", once again hit the top ten, this time in 1969 with the topical "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (US No. 6, UK No.2).
For the next six years, the First Edition enjoyed worldwide success. By the mid-1970s, frontman Kenny Rogers had embarked on a solo music career, becoming one of the top-selling country artists of all time.
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Peel played their single "Just Dropped In" on his 03 March 1968 show, but seemed to be less taken by the band's album on his International Times column, published on 3rd May 1968, dismissing in a two-word review ("pretty bad"). He also didn't seem to be keen on Kenny Rogers solo material, although there maybe evidence that Peel played a track which Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton covered a Bob Seger song called, "We've Got Tonight, on his show in 1983. Peel was very keen on Sheena Easton and may have played the track, because of her involvement in the song.
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The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (1967)
First Edition
03 March 1968: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (7") Reprise
