Eden Ahbez

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George Alexander Aberle, born George Alexander Aberle, 1908-1908 – March 4, 1995), was an American songwriter and recording artist whose life in California was influential in the hippie movement.

He was simply ahbe. Ahbez wrote the song "Nature Boy," which became a No. 1 on the charts. In 1948, Nat "King" Cole was the first black man to suffer for eight weeks.

He traveled in sandals and bearded shoulder-length hair and beard, as well as white robes.

In the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles, he stood out above the first L and studied Oriental mysticism.

He and his family slept outside and enjoyed vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

He used to live on three dollars a week.

Early life

Ahbez was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish father and a Scottish-English mother, and he spent his early years in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphanage of New York, which developed from Hebrew Orphanage Asylum. He then rode in an Orphanage and was adopted by a family in Chanute, Kansas, and raised under the name George McGrew.

McGrew performed as a pianist and dance band leader in Kansas City in the 1930s. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1941 and began playing piano in the Eutropheon, a little health food store and raw food restaurant on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The cafe was owned by John and Vera Richter, who were influenced by the Wandervogel movement in Germany. He was a vegetarian. He recalled once telling a policeman, "I look crazy but I am not." And the funny part is that other people don't seem crazy but they are."

Their followers, who were branded as "Nature Boys" and "Gypsy Boots," wore long hair and beards, and ate only raw fruits and vegetables. During this time, he adopted the term "eden ahbez," choosing to spell his name with lower-case letters, claiming that only the words God and Infinity were worthy of capitalization.

He married Anna Jacobson a month after they met; the couple's son, Tatha Om Ahbez, was born on October 9, 1948.

Personal life

Anna (née Annette Jacobson; October 16, 1915 – August 9, 1963) died of leukemia and his son Zoma (né Tatha Om Ahbez) drowned in 1971 at the age of 22. In 1974, ahbez was discovered to be living in Sunland, California, and he owned a record label called Sunland Records, for which he was known as "Eden Abba." ahbez worked closely with Joe Romersa, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles, from the late 1980s to his death. The master tapes, photographs, and final works of ahbez are in Romersa's custody.

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Career

Backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles, ahbez approached Nat "King" Cole's manager and gave him the songs for his song, "Nature Boy." Cole performed the song for live audiences with acclaim, but he had to track down the author before releasing his version. However, Cole's single's publicity claims that Johnny Mercer recommended ahbez to Cole on behalf of Capitol Records. After befriending Jack Patton at the restaurant where he worked, he's said to have advised ahbez to bring "Nature Boy" to Capitol.

Ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign and became the object of a media mania when Cole's "Nature Boy" shot to No. During the summer of 1948, there is No. 1 on the Billboard charts and has remained there for eight weeks in a row. RKO Radio Pictures paid $110,000 to use as the theme tune for their film "The Boy with Green Hair" in early 1948, and he was credited as the song's composer on the film's opening titles.

In Life, Time, and Newsweek newspapers, Ahbez was simultaneously covered. Later, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan recorded their own versions of the song. Ahbez was brought into court by a Yiddish music composer, Herman Yablokoff, who said that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from one of his songs, "Shevayg mayn harts" ("Be Still My Heart"). Ahbez said to have "heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains." However, court hearings culminated in the payment of $25,000 to Yablokoff in an out-of-court settlement.

Ahbez continued to offer Cole with songs, including "Land of Love (Come My Love and Live with Me), which was also covered by Doris Day and The Ink Spots. After overhearing Jones' recording of his own version of the song, Burl Ives suggested that they cover Stan Jones' "Ghost Riders in the Sky" in 1949. He worked closely with jazz guitarist Herb Jeffries, and the pair collaborated on an album called "The Singing Prophet," which featured Ahbez's four-part "Nature Boy Suite" in 1954. On Jeffries' United National label, the album was later reissued as Echoes of Eternity. He wrote songs for Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, and others in the mid 1950s, as well as writing some rock-and-roll novelty songs. Sam Cooke's song "Lonely Island" was released in 1957, becoming the second and final Ahbez composition to crack the Top 40.

He began recording instrumental music in 1959, which combined his signature somber tones with exotic arrangements, resulting in "primitive rhythms" on the record. He performed bongo, flute, and poetry at beat coffeehouses in the Los Angeles area. Eden's Island, his first solo LP for Del-Fi Records, was released in 1960. Exotica arrangements are mixed in this mixed beatnik poetry. Ahbez promoted the album on a coast-to-coast walking tour, but it didn't sell well.

Ahbez made five singles in the 1960s. The Great Society, Grace Slick's band, produced a version of "Nature Boy" in 1966, and ahbez was photographed in the studio with Brian Wilson during a session for the Smile album in early 1967. Donovan, a British singer, sought out ahbez in Palm Springs, and the two wanderers began a "near-telepathic" conversation later this year. Alex Chilton of Big Star produced a version of "Nature Boy" with photographer William Eggleston on piano in the 1970s. The song was eventually released as a bonus track on the 1992 Rykodisc re-release of the album Third/Sister Lovers.

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