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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• ahbez
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• chromatic
• harmonica
• nature
• boy
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• king
• cole

[lynncabot]

Please forgive my ignorance. I'm a 72 yr. old technologically challenged senior. I didn't really become interested much in singing until Susan Boyle inspired me! Now I would like to sing Nature Boy for groups. Is it an infringement of copywrite law to use your version?

[alliax]

I don't think it is copyright infringment, but honestly I'm not the best person to ask for that because I dislike copyright laws as it is there mainly to protect the interest of the rich and powerful. I think humanity would be better off without copyright laws. So in the meantime, I don't bother about those laws and do what I want, I take the legal risk, but the moral wrongnes is on the other side, not mine.

[streetlegal008]

I really like your version of this song. Could you also please record Windmills of Your Mind and Killing Me Softly?

[alliax]

Thank you for your message, I have already uploaded a short version of Killing me Softly on youtube. As for windmills of your mind, I don't have the music sheet and I didn't record anything for months anyway. It'll be a few months before I can settle in my next home and record again.

[Gazellekaz]

I ordered and paid for your DVD three weeks but have just realised there's no way to mail you to ask if it's pn its way. Is it?

[alliax]

Hello, sorry no, I've sent you the refund via paypal. The problem with the DVD is that it is full (4.6GB) and not all videos are inside, so I'm looking at making another way, like downloading files from another site. Thank you for trying to order it and sorry about that.

[tenglee2]

Can you do a Harmonica cover on Nat King Cole's L-O-V-E song?

[CrunchyNut7]

this right here is a DUDE!

[330marty]

This is very beautiful! 

[Maureen712]

Very nice version of "Nature Boy".

[yogisprite2008]

beautiful

[lynncabot]

ps - I would also love to hear your version of Windmills of Your Mind

[cervatoway]

sweet!