The First Edition is the debut album by the group The First Edition

The First Edition

The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...

. Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

 sang the lead vocals on two tracks "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", and "Dream On". "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" became the only hit single from the album and marked the start of things to come, with Rogers soon becoming the lead singer of the group and being renamed "Kenny Rogers & The First Edition".

The producer of this album (and also the band's second and third albums), Mike Post

Mike Post

Mike Post is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for scoring some of the most popular TV theme songs in the United States, for primetime series such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, LA Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., Hill Street Blues, among numerous...

 gained later renown for the theme music

Theme music

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 for many TV drama

Dramatic programming

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s such as Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...

, Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....

, Law & Order

Law & Order

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and others.

Though this album is no longer in print, most of the tracks can be found on various compilation releases.

Track listing

1. I Found a Reason – 2:47
2. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
   Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
   "Just Dropped In " is a song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be 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 in 1968...
   
   – 3:20
3. Shadow in the Corner of Your Mind – 2:52
4. If Wishes Were Horses – 2:32
5. Ticket to Nowhere – 2:24 (Mike Settle)
6. I Get a Funny Feeling – 3:49
7. I Was the Loser – 3:05
8. Dream On – 2:45
9. Home Made Lies – 2:20
10. Marcia: 2 A.M. – 2:20
11. Hurry up, Love – 2:35
12. Church Without a Name – 3:15