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Artist: King Cole Label:   Capitol Country: USA Catalogue: 15054 Date: 29 Mar 1948 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  20 Own, 2 Want Price Guide: $27 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	King Cole	Nature Boy	Eden Ahbez	10.0  Rate
B	The King Cole Trio	Lost April	De Lange, Newman, Spencer	Rate

Notes

Billboard, Mar. 27, 1948, p. 32: Advance Record Releases
Billboard, Apr. 3, 1948, p. 116: review

A: "Nature Boy" (mx 2193), recorded August 22, 1947 with orchestra conducted by Frank DeVol.

B: "Lost April" (mx 2928), recorded December 20, 1947 with orchestra conducted by Carlyle Hall.

B: From The Samuel Goldwyn Production "The Bishop's Wife".

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Break-In Master 9th Jul 2023
laviolet 15th Oct 2017		Here's "Lost April."
Gill Sans SUBS 7th Aug 2016		Others have pointed out the similarity of eden ahbez' melodic theme to the 2nd movement of the Dvořák Piano Quintet In A Op.81. Ahbez came to Los Angeles as George Aberle and started playing piano in the Eutropheon health-food store and spiritual centre, becoming one of its Nature Boys. Assuming he was a classically-trained pianist he would have been familiar with the Piano Quintet and its delightful and slightly sad themes. Dvorak named this movement "Dumka" to emphasise that it was in the form of a traditional Slavonic folk ballad. "Nature Boy" uses a direct quotation from the beginning of the movement, echoed by the phrase "There was a boy, A very strange enchanted boy" They say he wandered off into his own melodic inventions for the subsequent development, but the mood of the song maintains that of the folk ballad It must be that ahbez was not consciously aware of the influence of the Dvorak because he came to a financial settlement with another composer who claimed the copyright for his own composition. In 1935 emigré musician Herman Yablokoff had written Shvayg mayn Harts (Hush My Heart) for a Yiddish theatre production in NYC. This in turn was based on a Klesmer tune, Papirosn (meaning Cigarettes), so it is conceivable that Kodaly himself knew the tune. Here is an example of the Dvořák quintet For an example of a recording of the Quintet on 45worlds see LXT 6043 As a postscript, see the 1948 parody by Red Ingle
xiphophilos 20th Jul 2016		B side:
BigBadBluesMan 6th Apr 2015
bobzyeruncle 15th Jan 2013		The tune itself was written about another Californian 'Proto-Hippy' who went by the moniker of Gypsy Boots.
doberman 14th Jan 2013		'Nature Boy' brought Nat King Cole to the attention of the general public. It was written by what we would later call a hippie, namely eden ahbez (capital letters on the label) but later rectified. It reached No.1 on the US Best Sellers for seven weeks in April/May 1948.

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