Harmonica - Nature Boy - Music Sheet - Nat King Cole
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Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez played on chromatic harmonica. There's a famous version by Nat King Cole, search for it on YouTube, you'll like it. I've added the music sheet to the video, but at the end there was a glitch and it's all black now. Doesn't matter much since it's three times the same melody...
Ahbez composed the song which told 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." The Yiddish songwriter Herman Yablakoff alleged that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from his song "Sveig Mein Hartz" ("Be Still My Heart"); his legal action was settled out of court.
Actually, one needs go further back to Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Opus 81 (1887). The melody of Nature Boy sits there loud and clear in multiple passages. This Dvorak piece is considered by some to be the greatest piece of chamber music ever composed. There were most probably Yiddish theaters in Prague during that period in history ... or perhaps Mr. Yablakoff was influenced by the classics.
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Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez played on chromatic harmonica. There's a famous version by Nat King Cole, search for it on YouTube, you'll like it. I've added the music sheet to the video, but at the end there was a glitch and it's all black now. Doesn't matter much since it's three times the same melody...
Ahbez composed the song which told 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." The Yiddish songwriter Herman Yablakoff alleged that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from his song "Sveig Mein Hartz" ("Be Still My Heart"); his legal action was settled out of court.
Actually, one needs go further back to Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Opus 81 (1887). The melody of Nature Boy sits there loud and clear in multiple passages. This Dvorak piece is considered by some to be the greatest piece of chamber music ever composed. There were most probably Yiddish theaters in Prague during that period in history ... or perhaps Mr. Yablakoff was influenced by the classics.
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