satyr wrote:
Someone once told me that the original lyrics were "In The Garden Of
Eden" but the record company was afraid of offending religious people.
The story I heard was that the songwriter (band member Doug Ingle)
telephoned drummer Ron Bushy in the middle of the night to tell him
he'd written this great song. Bushy said something like "That's great,
Doug, what's it called?" Ingle answered "In the Garden of Eden", but
since he was drunk at the time, it came out "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida".
Bushy asked "What was that again?!"
Ingle yelled into the phone "IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA!!!"
And the name stuck. Anyway, here's Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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