DESCRIPTION:
re-arranged by yiorgos Limakis and Iliana Tsapatsari
Yiorgos Limakis bass
Yiotis Kioyrtzoglou bass
Iliana Tsapatsari voc
live at alavastro 16-5-2013


info about the song :
"Nature Boy" is a song by eden ahbez, published in 1947. The song tells a fantasy of a "strange enchanted boy... who wandered very far" only to learn that "the greatest thing... was just to love and be loved in return". Nat King Cole's 1948 recording of the song was a major hit and "Nature Boy" has since become a pop and jazz standard, with dozens of major artists interpreting the song.
The first two measures of the song's melody parallel the melody of the second movement in Antonín Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887). It is unknown if Ahbez was familiar with Dvořák's piece, or if he arrived at the same melodic idea independently.

Yiddish theater star/producer Herman Yablokoff, in Memoirs of the Yiddish Stage, claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" was plagiarized from his song "Shvayg, Mayn Harts" ("Hush, My Heart"), which he wrote for his play Papirosn (1935).[1] Ahbez protested his innocence, claiming to have "heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains," but later agreed to pay Yablokoff in an out-of-court settlement.[2]

The song is based on a 1940s Los Angeles-based group called "Nature Boys," a subculture of proto-hippies of which Ahbez was a member.[3]