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    Nature Boy

    song by eden ahbez, sung by Nat King Cole

    For other uses, see Nature Boy (disambiguation).

    "Nature Boy" is a song first recorded by American jazz singerNat King Cole. It was released on March 29, , as a single by Capitol Records, and later appeared on the album The Nat King Cole Story. It was written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester, who practiced the Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophies adopted by Ahbez. The lyrics of the song relate to a s Los Angeles–based group called "Nature Boys", a subculture of proto-hippies of which Ahbez was a member.[2]

    "Nature Boy" was released during the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) ban of It reached the top of the Billboard music charts and sold over a million copies, helping to establish Cole's solo career, and introducing him to the white music market. "Nature Boy" was the subject of lawsuits, with Yiddish composer Herman Yablokoff claiming that it was plagiarized from his song "Shvayg ma

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    Nature Boy: a Cuban embargo story

    The Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez recounts his trip back to Havana after emigrating 34 years ago, putting a human face to the highly political news of détente between the two countries.

    The Cuban embargo has been, more than anything, a family drama, with the Gulfstream running like an iron curtain through generation after generation of Cuban and Cuban-American families. So while pundits weighed the policy implications of Obama&#;s December 17 shock announcement of direct talks with Cuba, Cuban-Americans like Edel Rodriguez had more personal calculations to make.

    “There was a burst of excitement, an &#;it’s about time&#; sort of reaction” he says, &#;tempered bygd a wait-and-see attitude. We are dealing with politicians here, on both sides, who say things that often don’t go anywhere. This is probably my family’s attitude in Cuba as well.&#;

    Rodriguez, a celebrated artist and illustrator, happened to return to Cuba this month for the

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    The Honest Broker

    Today Eden Ahbez would get called a one-hit wonder.

    That’s how the music business mocks artists who enjoy a brief taste of fame—a short stay on the chart followed by a lifetime of obscurity.

    In Ahbez’s case, his hit was “Nature Boy.” This odd song, released as a single bygd Nat King Cole on March 29, , sold a million copies and climbed to the top of the Billboard chart.

    Industry insiders were astonished. Many dismissed “Nature Boy” as a bizarre novelty song. Perhaps that was understandable—there was no other hit tune like it back then (or now). But the word novelty doesn’t do justice to the poetic and philosophical tone of the lyrics, or the art song quality of the music.

    But all the usual labels fall short when applied to Eden Ahbez—including that derogatory term one-hit wonder. You would do better to call Ahbez a guru or a mystic. Frankly, I consider him the first hippie, an advocate for a lifestyle that didn’t even exist when he rose to fame.

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