RSD Release Set For Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings Collection 'Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In'

Daptone has announced the physical release version of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ new collection, Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In, to be released on Record Store Day Black Friday, November 29th. The digital version arrives on October 23rd, and the LP available on RSD Black Friday will feature an exclusive transparent blue with black splatter color vinyl.

Ahead of those digital and physical releases, Daptone have debuted a second single off the album, “Little By Little,” made famous by Dusty Springfield. This follows the lead single “Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours,” the Stevie Wonder classic.

Just Dropped In… comes as Jones’ second posthumous release following the group’s most recent album, Soul of a Woman (2017). Jones passed away in 2016 from pancreatic cancer.

The album Just Dropped In… features covers by acts ranging from Janet Jackson to Woody Guthrie and this album compiles some of these artists' most popular, as well as completely unreleased, renditions, originally recorded on their own or for commercials, movies, and TV shows.

Both “Rescue Me” and “In the Bush” were among the outtakes on the cutting room floor of The Wolf of Wall Street motion picture soundtrack, for which the band recorded several unused sides.

“Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” was not just a remake of the Kenny Rogers’ First Edition hit, but more specifically a near re-play of Bettye Lavette’s 1968 version, and was notably the very first recording done at the Daptone House of Soul studio in 2002.

The band’s replay of Gladys Knight’s “Giving Up” was specifically requested but unused by a producer who was confident he needed it to sample for a beat on a Dr. Dre album.

“Little by Little,” “Inspiration Information,” “Here I Am Baby,” and “Take Me with U” were cut for tribute projects to Dusty Springfield, Shuggie Otis, The Marvelettes, and Prince, respectively.