i need the name of this song i think its from around 1980

the lyrics go like this

i came from the rough side of town
(her clothes were hand me downs)
i wanted to fall in love
black was the night before the morning
i feel another night i've never known (i have left out a few lines)

the chorus goes

baby get away,get away ,get away (repeat)

if anyone can help i would be so grateful its driving me crazy!!!

My god. I'm stumped & it's killin me!

More details. Is it a rock song? Faster? Slower? R&B? Male or female singer? A band?

its an up tempo rock/new wave song i found it on an old tape of 1980 top 100 hits i have never heard this song before i found this tape it must be from around 1980-81
the female vocal sounds a bit like kim wilde or deborah harry but searching their songs brought up nothing its sounds like a group with male backing singers singing the in between lines

let me know if you get the answer and you will be a music legend!!!

:D

I have part of a song stuck in my head too.

All I have is a male singing, "I just dropped in to see the condition my condition was in."

I want to say it's from the 60s or 70s. It has that psychedelic feel to it.

Someone please: Name that tune. :music:

Sorry Jason, I don't know the answer to your music question.

Originally posted by Janice
I have part of a song stuck in my head too.

All I have is a male singing, "I just dropped in to see the condition my condition was in."

I want to say it's from the 60s or 70s. It has that psychedelic feel to it.

Someone please: Name that tune. :music:

Sorry Jason, I don't know the answer to your music question.


The First Edition (Kenny Rogers' old 60s band) 1968 :)


Now to try that other out again...

i listened to the song again and it sounds very similar to "martha and the muffins echo beach" the vocal sounds exactly like it in parts and one of the music loops sounds like the start of echo beach i have a feeling im getting warmer

Damn! Well, I hope somebody gets this cause it's a toughy! I looked on the top 100 songs of both 1980 & 1981. Nothing that sounded like that. I'm thinking this may've been a fairly obscure, minor hit. If that's the case, it would've fallen well out of the top 100 spots. I know Billboard counts em up to 200.
So you're *sure* it was definitely one of those 2 years, eh? No chance of it being maybe 1982 or '83 or even 1979 or '78?

Originally posted by Rickenbacker
The First Edition (Kenny Rogers' old 60s band) 1968 :)

Thanks! Do you know the name of the song? I'd like to look up the lyrics.
:)

Originally posted by Janice
Thanks! Do you know the name of the song? I'd like to look up the lyrics.
:)

You're welcome! :)

The title is pretty much what you wrote above- "I Just Dropped in (to See The Condition My Condition Was In"). Just do a Google search for 1st Edition/Kenny Rogers for the exact wording of it.

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somebody please help nobody seems to know what this is