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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/Edenahbez.jpg/200px-Edenahbez.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/Edenahbez.jpg/300px-Edenahbez.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Edenahbez.jpg 2x" data-file-width="307" data-file-height="323" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">1960 album cover</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">George Alexander Aberle</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Also known as</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">eden ahbez<br />George McGrew</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1908-04-15</span>)</span>April 15, 1908<br /><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York">Brooklyn, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 4, 1995<span style="display:none">(1995-03-04)</span> (aged 86)<br /><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Exotica" title="Exotica">Exotica</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1940–1995</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>George Alexander Aberle</b> (April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995), known as <b>eden ahbez</b>, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippie</a> movement. He was known to friends simply as <b>ahbe</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahbez composed the song "<a href="/wiki/Nature_Boy_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature Boy (song)">Nature Boy</a>", which became a No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for <a href="/wiki/Nat_%22King%22_Cole" class="mw-redirect" title="Nat "King" Cole">Nat "King" Cole</a>. Living a <a href="/wiki/Pastoral" title="Pastoral">bucolic</a> life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Sign" title="Hollywood Sign">Hollywood Sign</a> above Los Angeles and studied Asian <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mysticism</a>. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruit, and nuts. He claimed to live on $3 per week. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eden_ahbez&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahbez was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish father George Philip Aberle and English mother Margaret Annie (Mason) Aberle. He spent his early years in the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Hebrew_Orphan_Asylum" title="Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum">Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum</a> of New York.<sup id="cite_ref-Brooklyn_Public_Library_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooklyn_Public_Library-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then traveled in an <a href="/wiki/Orphan_train" class="mw-redirect" title="Orphan train">orphan train</a>, was adopted in 1917 by a family in Chanute, Kansas, and raised under the name <b>George McGrew</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Life_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Life-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1930s, McGrew lived in Kansas City, Missouri, where he performed as a pianist and dance band leader.<sup id="cite_ref-Life_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Life-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1941, he arrived in Los Angeles and began playing piano in the <a href="/wiki/Eutropheon" class="mw-redirect" title="Eutropheon">Eutropheon</a>, a small <a href="/wiki/Health_food_store" title="Health food store">health food store</a> and <a href="/wiki/Raw_food" class="mw-redirect" title="Raw food">raw food</a> restaurant on <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Canyon_Boulevard" title="Laurel Canyon Boulevard">Laurel Canyon Boulevard</a>. The cafe was owned by <a href="/wiki/John_and_Vera_Richter" title="John and Vera Richter">John and Vera Richter</a>, who followed a <i>Naturmensch</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Lebensreform" title="Lebensreform">Lebensreform</a></i> philosophy<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> influenced by the <a href="/wiki/Wandervogel" title="Wandervogel">Wandervogel</a> movement in Germany. He was a <a href="/wiki/Vegetarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegetarian">vegetarian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brooklyn_Public_Library_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooklyn_Public_Library-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He recalled once telling a policeman: "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are."<sup id="cite_ref-Nature_Boy_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_Boy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their followers, known as "Nature Boys" and who included <a href="/wiki/Gypsy_Boots" title="Gypsy Boots">Gypsy Boots</a> (né Robert Bootzin), wore long hair and beards and ate only raw fruits and vegetables. During this period, he adopted the name "eden ahbez", choosing to spell his name with lower-case letters, claiming that only the words God and Infinity were worthy of capitalization. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eden_ahbez&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1947, ahbez approached <a href="/wiki/Nat_%22King%22_Cole" class="mw-redirect" title="Nat "King" Cole">Nat "King" Cole</a>'s manager backstage at the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Theater_(Los_Angeles,_California)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln Theater (Los Angeles, California)">Lincoln Theater</a> in Los Angeles and handed him the music for his song, "<a href="/wiki/Nature_Boy" title="Nature Boy">Nature Boy</a>". Cole began playing the song for live audiences to much acclaim, but needed to track down its author before releasing his recording of it.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Publicity material for Cole's single instead makes the claim that <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a> recommended ahbez to Cole on behalf of Capitol Records.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jack Patton, in turn, is said to have advised ahbez to bring "Nature Boy" to Capitol after befriending him at the restaurant where ahbez worked.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahbez was discovered living under the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Sign" title="Hollywood Sign">Hollywood Sign</a> and became the focus of a media frenzy when Cole's version of "Nature Boy" shot to No. 1 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_charts" title="Billboard charts"><i>Billboard</i> charts</a> and remained there for eight consecutive weeks during the summer of 1948. In early 1948, <a href="/wiki/RKO_Radio_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO Radio Pictures">RKO Radio Pictures</a> paid ahbez $10,000 for the rights to "Nature Boy" to use as the theme song for their film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_with_Green_Hair" title="The Boy with Green Hair">The Boy with Green Hair</a></i>, and he was credited as the song's composer on the film's opening titles.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahbez was covered simultaneously in <i>Life</i>, <i>Time</i>, and <i>Newsweek</i> magazines. <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan" title="Sarah Vaughan">Sarah Vaughan</a> later released versions of the song. Ahbez faced legal action from a <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddish music">Yiddish music composer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herman_Yablokoff" title="Herman Yablokoff">Herman Yablokoff</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from one of his songs, "Shvayg mayn harts" ("Be Still My Heart"). Ahbez claimed to have "heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains". However, legal proceedings resulted in a payment to Yablokoff of $25,000 in an out-of-court settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ahbez continued to supply Cole with songs, including "Land of Love (Come My Love and Live with Me)", which was also covered by <a href="/wiki/Doris_Day" title="Doris Day">Doris Day</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Ink_Spots" title="The Ink Spots">The Ink Spots</a>. In 1949, he gave <a href="/wiki/Burl_Ives" title="Burl Ives">Burl Ives</a> the idea to cover <a href="/wiki/Stan_Jones_(songwriter)" title="Stan Jones (songwriter)">Stan Jones</a>' "<a href="/wiki/Ghost_Riders_in_the_Sky" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghost Riders in the Sky">Ghost Riders in the Sky</a>" after overhearing Jones recording his own version of the song.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked closely with <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> musician <a href="/wiki/Herb_Jeffries" title="Herb Jeffries">Herb Jeffries</a>, and, in 1954, the pair collaborated on an album, <i>The Singing Prophet</i>, which included the only recording of Ahbez's four-part "Nature Boy Suite". The album was later reissued as <i>Echoes of Eternity</i> on Jeffries' United National label. In the mid-1950s, he wrote songs for <a href="/wiki/Eartha_Kitt" title="Eartha Kitt">Eartha Kitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Laine" title="Frankie Laine">Frankie Laine</a>, and others, as well as writing some rock-and-roll novelty songs. In 1957, his song "Lonely Island" was recorded by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Cooke" title="Sam Cooke">Sam Cooke</a>, becoming the second and final Ahbez composition to hit the <a href="/wiki/Top_40" title="Top 40">Top 40</a>. </p><p>In 1959, he began recording instrumental music, which combined his signature somber tones with exotic arrangements and (according to the record sleeve) "primitive rhythms". He often performed <a href="/wiki/Bongo_drum" title="Bongo drum">bongo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flute" title="Flute">flute</a>, and poetry gigs at beat coffeehouses in the Los Angeles area. In 1960, he recorded his only solo LP, <i>Eden's Island,</i> for <a href="/wiki/Del-Fi_Records" title="Del-Fi Records">Del-Fi Records</a>. This mixed <a href="/wiki/Beatnik" title="Beatnik">beatnik</a> <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> with <a href="/wiki/Exotica" title="Exotica">exotica</a> arrangements. Ahbez promoted the album through a coast-to-coast walking tour making personal appearances, but it sold poorly.<sup id="cite_ref-rc_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rc-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1960s, ahbez released five singles. <a href="/wiki/Grace_Slick" title="Grace Slick">Grace Slick</a>'s band <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Society_(band)" title="The Great Society (band)">the Great Society</a> recorded a version of "Nature Boy" in 1966 and ahbez was photographed in the studio with <a href="/wiki/Brian_Wilson" title="Brian Wilson">Brian Wilson</a> during a session for the <i><a href="/wiki/Smile_(The_Beach_Boys_album)" title="Smile (The Beach Boys album)">Smile</a></i> album in early 1967. Later that year, British singer <a href="/wiki/Donovan" title="Donovan">Donovan</a> sought ahbez in Palm Springs, California, and the two wanderers shared a reportedly "near-telepathic" conversation.<sup id="cite_ref-bc_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bc-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Big_Star" title="Big Star">Big Star</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Alex_Chilton" title="Alex Chilton">Alex Chilton</a> recorded a version of "Nature Boy" with the photographer <a href="/wiki/William_Eggleston" title="William Eggleston">William Eggleston</a> on piano. The song was finally released as a bonus track on the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Rykodisc" title="Rykodisc">Rykodisc</a> re-release of the album <i><a href="/wiki/Third/Sister_Lovers" title="Third/Sister Lovers">Third/Sister Lovers</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eden_ahbez&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some time in 1947, he married Anna Jacobson a month after they met;<sup id="cite_ref-prady_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prady-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brooklyn_Public_Library_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooklyn_Public_Library-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nature_Boy_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nature_Boy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the couple had a son, Tatha "Zoma" Om Ahbez, on October 9, 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His wife Anna (née Annette Jacobson; October 16, 1915 – August 9, 1963) died, aged 47, of leukemia,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his son "Zoma" died unexpectedly<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in either 1965,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1969<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-rc_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rc-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1974, ahbez was reported to be living in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland, and he owned a record label named Sunland Records, for which he was recording under the name Eden Abba.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the late 1980s until his death, ahbez worked closely with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Romersa" title="Joe Romersa">Joe Romersa</a>, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles. The <a href="/wiki/Audio_mastering" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio mastering">master tapes</a>, photos, and final works of ahbez are in Romersa's possession.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eden_ahbez&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ahbez died on March 4, 1995, of injuries sustained in a car crash, at the age of 86.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another album, <i>Echoes from Nature Boy</i>, was released posthumously. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eden_ahbez&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Pester" title="William Pester">William Pester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gypsy_Boots" title="Gypsy Boots">Gypsy Boots</a></li> <li><a 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