вЂњWe channelled our own Gypsy lives in this performance. вЂњThis composer was part of a subculture of nomadic hippies!вЂќ, Lady Gaga tweeted. Interest in ahbez was rekindled when Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett included вЂњNature BoyвЂќ on their 2014 collaboration Cheek to Cheek. In comparison, Sun RaвЂ™s off-kilter account on the 1977 album Some Blues but not the Kind thatвЂ™s Blue is almost tranquil. Saxophonist John Coltrane turned it into an instrumental lament on 1965 album The John Coltrane Quartet Plays in the same year, Grace SlickвЂ™s rough and ready reading brought it to the attention of the counter-culture. A David Bowie version is included on the soundtrack of the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!ДЄ separate strand drew on the songвЂ™s spiritual message. Frank Sinatra had an early hit with choral backing rock and roll crooner Bobby Darin charted with it in 1961, and British soul-funk band Central Line performed it on the BBCвЂ™s Top of the Pops in 1983. Others chose вЂњNature BoyвЂќ for its commercial appeal. Included in this strand is the orchestral version that leads off Marvin GayeвЂ™s 1965 Nat King Cole tribute album, and George BensonвЂ™s slinky, soulful version on the 1977 album In Flight. Yet his version of вЂњNature BoyвЂќ was a bridgehead across a racially divided America - something later versions recognised.

The composer and Yiddish theatre star Herman Yablokoff accused ahbez of appropriating вЂњNature BoyвЂќ from his own song вЂњShvayg Mayn HartsвЂќ (вЂњBe Still My HeartвЂќ) ahbez, though insisting that the tune had come to him in the California mountains, settled out of court.Д¬ole, meanwhile, had to wear skin-lightening make-up to perform the song on television, and burning crosses were erected outside his new home in a white LA neighbourhood. David Bowie
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Nature Boy
This story is about love
The woman I loved is dead
There was a boy.
A very strange enchanted boy.
They say he wondered very far, very far, over land and sea.
A little shy, and sad of eye
But very wise was he.
And then one dayIt also made an unlikely celebrity of ahbez, who, interviewed in 1948 on Chicago radio show We the People, pronounced: вЂњI was born with a love of nature and I was born with the desire to find God.вЂќД«ut trouble was in the offing. ColeвЂ™s shelved version of вЂњNature BoyвЂќ got its turn in March 1948 and chalked up 1m sales, establishing ColeвЂ™s solo career. It was released only because the American Federation of Musicians entered a lengthy dispute, banning all instrumental recording, so that labels were forced to draw on work that was already in the bag. He was found camping with his wife and child below one of the Ls of the Hollywood sign.Д¬ole recorded вЂњNature BoyвЂќ for Capitol in August 1947 but the label thought the song wayward and shelved it. Cole immediately included it in his trioвЂ™s repertoire but needed ahbezвЂ™s permission for recording. But a crumpled manuscript did eventually reach the singer, reputedly slipped to his valet. When ahbez tried to present the manuscript to Cole, he was rebuffed. вЂњAnd the funny thing is that other people donвЂ™t look crazy, but they are.вЂќ вЂњI look crazy, but IвЂ™m not,вЂќ he told Life magazine in 1948.

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