Bedtime Music: Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vida (Live)

It's hard to believe this song is 40 years old now. As I recall hearing when I was a kid, this song was the D.J.'s friend. In a Gadda Da Vida, as originally released in 1968, is over seventeen minutes long, thus giving a D.J. plenty of time to go to the bathroom, or take care of other business while the song played.

And then there's the song title. Per 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.

Note: Due to the length of the song, there's a cut in the video at the 4:15 mark.