The song was written by Mickey Newbury, a famed Nashville songwriter, supposedly about the LSD experience. What I learned today is that while it was made into a hit by The First Edition, the first version was by Jerry Lee Lewis, who always rocks.
One of the commentators on the above clip said to look for the Mickey Newbury version. Why not?
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Killer version from the Killer. When I heard the Newbury version I thought “that’s too slick and self-important to be the original version,” and it’s not. Newbury’s original that is. Here is his, and I can’t describe it better than “outlaw cheese with a sitar.” http://www.funky16corners.com/sounds1/ironleg_current/mickeynewbury_justdroppedin.mp3
Killer version from the Killer. When I heard the Newbury version I thought “that’s too slick and self-important to be the original version,” and it’s not. Newbury’s original that is. Here is his, and I can’t describe it better than “outlaw cheese with a sitar.”
http://www.funky16corners.com/sounds1/ironleg_current/mickeynewbury_justdroppedin.mp3