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13 Aug 06 - 11:06 AM (#1808745) Subject: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy From: Marion Hi gang. A friend of mine is trying to track down a song she once heard in a folkie context. It started something like "there once was a boy... a most enchanted boy..." Apparently he travels around magically and learns that the most important thing is love. Thanks, Marion |
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13 Aug 06 - 11:34 AM (#1808761) Subject: Lyr Add: NATURE BOY (Eden Ahbez) From: dick greenhaus Nature Boy Words and Music by Eden Ahbez There was a boy... A very strange enchanted boy. They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea, A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he. And then one day, One magic day, he passed my way. And while we spoke of many things, Fools and kings, This he said to me, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return." ~interlude~ "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return." not particularly folky |
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13 Aug 06 - 04:21 PM (#1808979) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy From: Artful Codger I associate this song with Nat King Cole. Most of his "best hits" compilations will probably include it. |
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14 Aug 06 - 02:44 AM (#1809292) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: GUEST,Marion Thanks, Dick and Artful Codger, I'll pass that info on. "not particularly folky"... I'll say. Until I googled the title, I thought there must be more to the story, and that you had just given me the first and last verse. Marion |
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15 Aug 06 - 02:42 AM (#1810107) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: cptsnapper Still a great song & there's much to be said for brevity. |
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16 Aug 06 - 12:14 PM (#1811247) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: GUEST,MTed The melody meanders in a slow and ethereal fashion. You wouldn't want any more lyrics than that, or, rather than having a timeless quality, it would have an endless quality. |
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16 Aug 06 - 12:27 PM (#1811262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: Bill D I remember the song being popular about 1952-3...it sorta captured the post WWII mind as calming, I guess... |
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16 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM (#1811561) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: dick greenhaus And then there's Red Ingle's "Serutan Yob" (available on a Bear Family CD titled Tim-Tay-Shun. |
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17 Aug 06 - 04:19 AM (#1812016) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: Mudlark I grew up in the WLA area in the early 50s. At that time there was a spiritual type person who used to walk Sunset Blvd, from the beach to town and back every day, in flowing white robes. I think he resided at the Paramahansa Yogananda temple (Self Realization Fellowship, I think) near the ocean off Sunset. I was told that this song referred to this guy. Never talked to him myself, but passed him on the road many times, and have always admired the spiece as a sort of art song....like Lagan Love. |
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18 Aug 06 - 03:07 AM (#1812858) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: GUEST,Bernieandred I'm surprised no one mentioned that 'Nature Boy" was faetured in a recent movie. Was it "Moulin Rouge"? I think so. |
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18 Aug 06 - 12:51 PM (#1813069) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: bill kennedy and the theme to the interesting film 'The Boy with Green Hair' (1948)starring a young Dean Stockwell. I believe that Nature Boy was recorded by Nat King Cole during the same sessions as his definitive version of Stardust, just before the musicians' strike of January 1, 1948. he hired a room full of strings and other instruments and did a lot of recording not knowing how long the anticipated strike might lasts, and which also gave the musicians a little cushion of income before the strike came. |
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18 Aug 06 - 05:21 PM (#1813283) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton Not much is known about Eben Ahbez. I met him in the 1970's in Hollywood when I was working at Barney Kessel's Music World as a guitar teacher. He was residing in a tree in Griffith Park. He had the features reminiscent of the characterization of Jesus. I don't know what he real name was. He liked to play a bamboo flute. He informed me that his song was sold outright or had been lifted from him, (I forget which) and he received no remuneration from it's sales which went to Cole and the publisher. It was based on a Hungarian folk melody. Frank Hamilton |
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20 Aug 06 - 07:45 PM (#1814696) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: the enchanted boy (Nature Boy) From: Jim Dixon Wikipedia has an interesting article about eden ahbez. (He didn't capitalize his name.) |