The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for May 12, 2022

Don’t put your dirty fingers on my dear old Iron Butterfly’s “In The Garden Of Life”!

OK, it’s now established. Uncle Ted and I are the same age.

He was a translator working on skid row.

Don’t listen to the kid. He’ll wear you out.

You wore your records out? That’s silly. I wear clothes out.

But you just wore out the one side, right?

Very little has made me laugh as hard as the episode of the Simpsons when Bart replaced the sheet music in church for “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and had the whole congregation sing it that Sunday.

one of the funniest (unintentionally) songs of the rock era…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4

I still have that album. Good times back then.

From what I have learned is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the drunk pronunciation of In The Garden Of Eden

only if you turn up the speed, then it’s hard to tell what they’re saying at all, which is hilarious… :D for some reason my toy record player disappeared.

Only thing is, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ran just over 17 minutes and filled one whole side of a 12" LP. Wilberforce appears to be holding a 45 RPM single so it must be the radio edit.

Uncle Ted was with it…back in the day!

Play it at 78 speed and see what happens. Ask Cheech & Chong!

First heard it played back on a recorder, but it was a wire recorder.

Actually, yes l did sometimes. I liked and still do like a lot of different music and songs. Hope that you do the same….

I know what Inna Gadda Divida means. Do you?

Loved the drum solo on the long version-which was rarely, if ever, played on the radio

A good song to play if you want cut other people off the jukebox.

Owwwww! Wilberforce, you are grounded for life!

Iron Butterfly, when you think about it, there a bit of irony in that name.

Yea, explain. What language is that, Daddio.

It was the only decent song on the entire record. Rest was junk. It was not a coincidence that this was their only album.

AHA! A peek into Uncle Ted’s youth. My guess is like a lot of us there was some weed and Dark Side of the Moon on his weekends!

That’s the second worse song in the world.

I thought that it would be SING, SING, SING! Krupa’s drum solo was great! PS I have the DVD. PPS I’m 68! ;o)

Love that song… I learned about it from Home Improvement

It happens to be Iron Butterfly.