Video Classics: 'Inna-Gadda-da-Vida'

Inna-Gadda-da-Vida by Iron Butterfly jumped from #150 in 1991 to #43 in the 1996 WNEW Firecracker 500 list.

From Wikipedia...

A commonly repeated story says that the song's title was originally In the Garden of Eden or In the Garden of Venus but in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle was intoxicated and accidentally slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't hear correctly; he simply distorted what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song (which was originally In-The-Garden-Of-Eden). An alternate version of the story, as stated in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, states that Ingle was drunk when he first told Bushy the title, so Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.

In the video, Dick Clark introduces "the Iron Butterfly" in glorious black and white. And make sure not to miss the Dick Clark interview after the song...

After the jump, the classic Simpson tribute to Inna-Gadda-da-Vida...