Doug Ingle
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Doug Ingle (born September 9, 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) was the organist, vocalist and primary composer for the band Iron Butterfly.
Ingle's father, a church pianist, introduced him to music at an early age. Ingle moved from his native Nebraska within three months of his birth to the Rocky Mountains and after spending his impressionable years as a mountain child moved to the California West Coast of the United States.
His work featured on Heavy, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Ball and Metamorphosis. Most famously, he authored the band's biggest hit, the epic seventeen-minute "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." Ironically, when he originally wrote the song, he had not intended it to run seventeen minutes long.[1] The album and subsequent single release of the title track vaulted Ingle and the band to national prominence, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" received the first Platinum Record sales award in the history of the Recording Industry and became a landmark record in psychedelic rock.
However, he became physically and emotionally exhausted after several years of nonstop touring and was resigned to the prospects of resigning his post with the group. While Doug has been known to tour occasionally with his former band members since 1971, he has not been involved with any of the group's later recordings.
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- ^ In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (liner notes)
