Trivia / In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

• One-Hit Wonder: A drastically edited (4-and-a-half minutes) version of the song was Iron Butterfly's only top 40 hit.
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  • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is one of the songs excerpted in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Polkas on 45" medley from his In 3-D album.
  • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is one of the songs bizarrely covered by The Residents on The Third Reich 'n Roll.
  • Frank Zappa covered "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" as a guitar solo together with Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring on his album Guitar.
  • One episode of Futurama is titled "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela".
  • The Simpsons: In "Bart Sells His Soul", Bart hands out the lyrics of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (under its apparently original title "In the Garden of Eden") to churchgoers making everybody sing and play along, not realizing it's not a traditional church hymn, or that it's 17 minutes long, leaving everyone exhausted by the time it's over. (Especially the woman playing the organ..)

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