“Nature Boy” is not only a landmark for being Nat King Cole’s first crossover hit to reach white audiences in America. It also presented this country with the idea of the hippie. Cole got the song from eden ahbez, an American orphan who worked at a health food store in Los Angeles, who’d learned of the Lebensreform and its philosophy from the store owner, a German immigrant. Taken by the virtues of clean living, ahbez joined up with his proto-hippie co-workers in a group called Naturmensch, translated Nature Boys. Living in plain sight of anyone who dared to see past the trees for the forest, he camped under the Hollywood sign.
Ahbez wrote a song called “Nature Boy,” about falling in with the Naturmensch and leaving all of his possessions for the one thing that truly matters: love. Possessed by a need to get his message out, he wrote the music and handed it to Nat King Cole’s driver, who passed it to Cole’s manager, leading to one of the
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