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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images) Tom Waits has recalled the extraordinary moment he was given a lift by none other than Eden Ahbez, the writer ...

Long-haired and vegetarian, with no interest in money, eden ahbez, the writer of Nat King Cole’s 1948 classic Nature Boy, is only now being recognised as the first of the hippies In late March 1948, ...

The Swedish band interpret newly discovered sheet music from the Nature Boy composer with hip jazz, Disney-ish ditties and Afro-Cuban ballads If you’ve heard of Eden Ahbez (1908-95), it will be as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...