Doug Ingle
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Doug Ingle (born September 9, 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.) was the organist, vocalist and primary composer for the band Iron Butterfly. He was the member who lasted the longest in Iron Butterfly. He was also reportedly a very kind person with an extravagent personality.
Ingle's father, a church organist, 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 San Diego, California.
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.
