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TIL that Iron Butterfly's 17 minute song was written in one sitting while Doug Ingle drank an entire gallon of Red Mountain wine. It was originally titled "In the Garden of Eden", however it was interpreted as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" due to the slurring of his words.

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