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(YouTube) Video Kenny Rogers celebrates his 70th birthday. "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)". Abide   (youtube.com) divider line 37
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WolfinPHX 2008-08-21 12:16:08 AM  
lebowskifest.com

/shamelessly hotlinked

 
uatuba 2008-08-21 12:29:37 AM  
You know, all these years, and I never knew he sang that song. Damn...learning that fact right there makes the $5 a month worth it.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-08-21 07:41:46 AM  
a820.g.akamai.net

yeah, but how old is his face?

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-08-21 08:05:51 AM  
uatuba: You know, all these years, and I never knew he sang that song

Me neither. The first time I heard it was in Lebowski.

 
jake_lex [TotalFark] 2008-08-21 08:06:47 AM  
It's probably one of the least convincing "psychedelic" songs ever recorded. It really seems like Kenny has no idea what the double meaning of these lines are, and was just told "You gotta do some hippie acid song if you wanna sell records these days."

 
PizzaJedi81 2008-08-21 08:19:22 AM  
Man, I wish his chicken places hadn't failed. They had yummy food.

 
galactus5000 2008-08-21 08:26:05 AM  
PizzaJedi81: Man, I wish his chicken places hadn't failed. They had yummy food.

There's one in the new terminal at Beijing International Airport.

/yes, I did eat there
//delicious

 
OldManDownDRoad 2008-08-21 08:53:06 AM  
jake_lex: It's probably one of the least convincing "psychedelic" songs ever recorded. It really seems like Kenny has no idea what the double meaning of these lines are, and was just told "You gotta do some hippie acid song if you wanna sell records these days."

Srsly. I remember hearing this on the radio and thinking WTF because his previous hits, "Ruby" and "Ruben James" had been crossover country hits. And, sure enough, he turned up on Ed Sullivan singing this song while wearing his sort-of-Nudie suit.

Coming a full year after "Strawberry Fields Forever" had set the bar for psychedelia, it was laughable. Fun song, though. Allegedly about the DANGERS OF DRUGS, it just made drugs seem like they were, you know, cool.

/that's what my friends told me

 
Tom_Slick [TotalFark] 2008-08-21 09:03:27 AM  
He was always called the coward of the county.

 
DoctorCal 2008-08-21 09:29:26 AM  
OldManDownDRoad: Srsly. I remember hearing this on the radio and thinking WTF because his previous hits, "Ruby" and "Ruben James" had been crossover country hits. And, sure enough, he turned up on Ed Sullivan singing this song while wearing his sort-of-Nudie suit.

Just Dropped In was on his first album.

 
howdyyall9999 2008-08-21 09:37:52 AM  
www.shagoto.com

 
Do What Now Question Mark 2008-08-21 09:47:45 AM  
Useless trivia (Isn't that redundant?): The drummer for the First Edition was Mickey Jones (new window), who has played with quite an illustrious list of acts, including Dylan.

 
craigdamage 2008-08-21 09:53:08 AM  
jake_lex It really seems like Kenny has no idea what the double meaning of these lines are....


That is exactly what happened with Ted Nugent in the Amboy Dukes.
He swears he had "no idea" that "Journey to the Center of the Mind" was about drugs. He was also clueless as to the meaning of all the blatant drug paraphernalia on the front cover of the same album.

Real smart guy that Ted.

 
H31N0US 2008-08-21 10:02:56 AM  
galactus5000: There's one in the new terminal at Beijing International Airport.

Shainghai too I think.

 
NimbleWalrus 2008-08-21 10:58:17 AM  
PizzaJedi81: Man, I wish his chicken places hadn't failed. They had yummy food.

Those signs can really keep a guy up at night, though.

 
kentriccubed 2008-08-21 11:10:49 AM  
craigdamage: jake_lex It really seems like Kenny has no idea what the double meaning of these lines are....


That is exactly what happened with Ted Nugent in the Amboy Dukes.
He swears he had "no idea" that "Journey to the Center of the Mind" was about drugs. He was also clueless as to the meaning of all the blatant drug paraphernalia on the front cover of the same album.

Real smart guy that Ted.



Have you seen his Hunting show? Yeah...

 
antrat00 2008-08-21 11:18:14 AM  
Not impressed.

 
craigdamage 2008-08-21 11:29:56 AM  
Those signs can really keep a guy up at night, though.



Kenny...........


Kenny............


Kenny...........

 
stahlhart 2008-08-21 11:50:39 AM  
I came in for that -- thanks, howdyyall9999...

/I was raised on the dairy, biatch...

 
Crude 2008-08-21 11:58:13 AM  
NimbleWalrus Those signs can really keep a guy up at night, though.

You don't say.
upload.wikimedia.org

/Vile weed!

 
Compulsive Liar 1986 2008-08-21 12:40:34 PM  
Kenny's birthday is my birthday too. we also share it with Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain, and Count Basie.

which, since i'm not nearly as successful or liked, all amounts to jack shiat.

 
Baron Krelve 2008-08-21 12:57:56 PM  
Happy birthday CL1986.

Oh, and I came here to say exactly what NimbleWalrus did.

 
em etib 2008-08-21 01:02:43 PM  
Happy Birthday, Compulsive Liar!

 
Rickenbacker 2008-08-21 01:20:49 PM  
Do What Now Question Mark: Useless trivia (Isn't that redundant?): The drummer for the First Edition was Mickey Jones (new window), who has played with quite an illustrious list of acts, including Dylan.

And was one of the "construction guys" on Home Improvement.

 
Inaditch 2008-08-21 03:29:39 PM  
I usually hate country music, but Kenny Rogers is a dirty secret of mine.

He was a guest on some show Dolly Parton used to have many years back. The audience went crazy when he came out. Dolly said something like, "They're going to have a lot of questions for you, like, have you seen them? Are they real?" Poor Kenny just turned bright red.

 
rocker5969 2008-08-21 05:01:13 PM  
Can you feel it baby
Can you feel it, here it comes
Feel it, Feel it
Fire, Fire
Something's burning
Something's burning
Something's burning
And I think it's love.

 
Gunny Highway 2008-08-21 05:16:00 PM  
i282.photobucket.com

Abides.

 
mansonozz 2008-08-21 05:31:03 PM  

 
I'd hit that 2008-08-21 06:25:16 PM  
uatuba: You know, all these years, and I never knew he sang that song. Damn...learning that fact right there makes the $5 a month worth it.

Learned the same fact today, but for free.

 
chickyraptor 2008-08-21 09:20:08 PM  
PizzaJedi81: Man, I wish his chicken places hadn't failed. They had yummy food.

order.bostonmarket.com

You could try the place whose menu he basically copied.

 
chickyraptor 2008-08-21 09:31:37 PM  

Rickenbacker: Do What Now Question Mark: Useless trivia (Isn't that redundant?): The drummer for the First Edition was Mickey Jones (new window), who has played with quite an illustrious list of acts, including Dylan.

And was one of the "construction guys" on Home Improvement.


And was in Doyle's 'band' in Sling Blade along with Dwight Yoakam (Doyle), Col. Bruce Hampton (ret.) and Vic Chestnutt.

 
steamingpile 2008-08-22 12:49:49 AM  
FlashHarry: yeah, but how old is his face?

In Kenny's defense, he was trying to keep a hot, younger wife, besides kenny can do no wrong!


/kenny?
//mmmmfkennnnnnnnnny???????!

 
g-booby 2008-08-22 02:57:58 AM  
You see them at the mall, the state fair, restaurants, even at the new car lot. They look like Kenny Rogers and sometimes it's scary.

MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com

 
DjangoStonereaver [TotalFark] 2008-08-22 06:17:56 AM  
Yeah, Kenny tried a whole bunch of musical stylings until he
lucked out with success as a country singer.

Now, he looks like he should be singing the themes to anime....

 
Faux Shizzle 2008-08-22 09:20:23 AM  
g-booby: You see them at the mall, the state fair, restaurants, even at the new car lot. They look like Kenny Rogers and sometimes it's scary.

MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com


What's even scarier is that with all the work he had done a couple years ago, Kenny himself wouldn't be eligible to appear on that site.

 
howdyyall9999 2008-08-22 10:04:08 AM  
Faux Shizzle: g-booby: You see them at the mall, the state fair, restaurants, even at the new car lot. They look like Kenny Rogers and sometimes it's scary.

MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com

What's even scarier is that with all the work he had done a couple years ago, Kenny himself wouldn't be eligible to appear on that site.


He came in third at the Kenny Roger's look-a-like contest...

 
poohneat 2008-08-22 01:17:33 PM  
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