History’s one-hit wonders make up a long, sometimes colorful and often tragic legion. Eden Ahbez was one of the luckier ones. He had a compelling song, with an unusual melody and a message of ...

The song “Nature Boy” was a number one hit for Nat King Cole in 1948, selling 1 million copies that year. Since then, the song has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from jazz and ...

For a time in 1947, songwriter Eden Ahbez was living in a sleeping bag under the Hollywood sign. But his life changed dramatically after he was able to slip the sheet music for a song he'd written to ...

Ahbez moved to LA in 1941 and started playing piano in a health-food store and raw-food restaurant called the Eutropheon, run by German immigrants on Laurel Canyon Blvd. There he met and hung out with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The fascinating songs on Dharmaland were written as the seeds of 1960s counterculture were being planted in ...

Tom Waits has recalled the extraordinary moment he was given a lift by none other than Eden Ahbez, the writer behind Nat King Cole’s hit song “Nature Boy”. The notoriously interview-shy US musician ...

Had he been better know, George Alexander Aberle – later known as eden ahbez (he chose to spell his alias with lowercase letters) – could have been credited as an originator of the hippie movement.

Eccentric pioneering hippy Eden Ahbez is known for just one song, a song that went around the woirld - 'Nature Boy'. From June 2010. Show more eden ahbez is one of those extraordinary characters. His ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. 'Imaginary Island' plots the life and work of a man who was well ahead of his time. Eden Ahbez was a ...

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