Word: ahbez
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Born. To eden ("only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") ahbez, 36, bearded Hollywood yoga, whose recent attempt at songwriting netted him Nature Boy and a potential $20,000, and anna jacobson ahbez, thirtyish, vegetarian mystic : their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: tatha. Weight...
...deliberately foolish-looking band leader called Red Ingle (real name: Ernest Jansen). It all began, he says, when he and his band, the Natural Seven, were playing in a Los Angeles nightclub. One night his vocalist, Karen Tedder, complained that if she had to sing Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy once again, she would go mad. To prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they decided to record it, they picked out "instruments...
...radio program in action, We the People. It looked worse than it sounded. A guest named Evil-Eye Finkle made evil eyes at the camera; Mrs. Spencer Tracy fastened her eyes to the script; Fred Allen mostly looked glum; Nat ("King") Cole sang Nature Boy and Composer Eden Ahbez showed his curls. Master of Ceremonies Dwight Weist went his own way, all but ignoring the prying eye of the telecamera...
...People (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS and CBS Television). The program's first simultaneous broadcast-telecast, with Fred Allen and Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3) as guests...
Head Music. Eden Ahbez (who signs his name with small letters because he believes that "only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") looks like a fugitive from Mysore, but is actually from Brooklyn by way of Kansas. Now 35, Eden says he has been hearing wonderful music in his head ever since he can remember...