Eden Ahbez 1948 gulf oil Cole & Boone 

I’m so glad this guy have written a beautiful song like that, and also glad of the fact that he gave that wonderful song to the legendary Mr.Nat King Cole. Cause no one,and I mean no one can sing that beautiful classic like the great Nat King Cole can. RIP to the both of these fine gentlemen of song.

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Met Ahbe when I was 12. Basicly lived the song and Ahbe Message

1948 live tv! Amazing. That was like going back into time. I was on edge watching that odd juxtaposition of seeing the great Nat Cole and Eden who was a true original--a hippie, 20 years early. Eden was an orphan--may explain the almost nomadic lifestyle. If "we" in 2022 find Eden most unusual--then what must a 1948 American audience have thought!? From a program called "We the People." Someone out there has the entire 30 minutes and maybe more episodes. I have a 16mm film collection of 4000 titles. I can imagine the thrill of finding the above gem. I won't tell you the horror stories of truckloads of films from NY & LA studios/stations getting sawed in half; dumped into the East River; etc. All of that history l o s t f o r e v e r.

I never met him and I just recently came across him, but I love him! what a pure and refined and noble and eloquent spirit

Yes, and the beats were some years off. He WAS the proto-hippie! Years ahead of his time.

The full version used to be available0 this chopped off one is frustrating > why in the world did someone put a caption over Ahbe's face ?ANd why in the world didn't they let us hear the full performance of the song?

He starts speaking truth and they cue the music earlier than planned.

eden is so real and so cool.

Eden Ahbez is a legend. I Wonder why nobody has written a book about him.

Why were they reading scripts? That made it so stiff.

Eden Ahbez - I knew the Eden/ Nature Boy Story but i didn't realize he was the first hippy. I wonder how much he earned from Nature boy? He also wrote a second song that Nat covered (kind of Nature Boy written backwards)

This is so interesting...ahbez must have been nervous - but it's so lame how this reporter treats him like a child. You have to think, did ahbez do this for the money? How much of this did he write himself? Could he have been pressured into doing this, as a publicity stunt for the song and for Cole? It really rubs me the wrong way, ahbez truly was a genius and a philosopher, I wish I knew why he appeared on this television show...

Awwww, you cut Nat King Cole off! Eden could have been so many of the "hipsters" of the 60's, yet he was way ahead of them. Jack Kerouac distinguished two types, the "beats" and the "hipsters". which is where I think the term "hippies" came from. After listening to several of his tracks, I wonder if he really was the pianist behind all those tunes. He sang the lyrics, played the flutes and other instruments, but I wonder about the pianist. Anybody know?

That was verrrry cool. Scripted but real. Why'd the song get cut off tho'? Could you post the rest of this section of the show? thanks!

Wow!

Why's all the dialogue scripted?