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| - eden ahbez (April 15, 1908 - March 4, 1995), born George Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York, was a Jewish American songwriter and recording artist from the 1940s to 1960s. His lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a #1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole, and has since become a pop and jazz standard.
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| - eden ahbez (April 15, 1908 - March 4, 1995), born George Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York, was a Jewish American songwriter and recording artist from the 1940s to 1960s. His lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a #1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole, and has since become a pop and jazz standard. Living a bucolic 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 Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles, studied Oriental mysticism, and claimed to live on three dollars a week, sleeping outdoors with his family, and eating vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
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