Name: Eden's Island
Brand: Eden Ahbez

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tonpool Medien GmbH

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Release date

2013-06-17

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PSALM2370

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5013929987029

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Eden Ahbez

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Cherry Red Records

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Cherry Red is a British label that was founded by Iain McNay in 1978. Also known as Cherry Red Records, this label has become associated with the company Music and Media Group. With the label code LC 6730, Cherry Red has made a name for itself in the music industry. It is important to note that this label should not be confused with the US label of the same name.

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Eden Ahbez (1908-1995) was an influential American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s. His unique lifestyle in California had a profound impact on the hippie movement, earning him the nickname "ahbe" among friends. Ahbez's most notable achievement was composing the iconic song "Nature Boy," which topped the charts for eight weeks in 1948 by Nat "King" Cole and has since become a beloved pop and jazz standard.

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Widely perceived as California's prototype Hippie, the enigmatic, eternally-cool Eden Ahbez was an occasional songwriter and musician, who suddenly shot to fame in 1948 when Nat King Cole topped the US charts with "Nature Boy", a song he'd written a year or so earlier. He subsequently became a cult figure, who continued to write and produce, sporadically, in a wide range of musical styles, throughout the 1950s. In 1960 he recorded a one-off LP, 'Eden's Island', which juxtaposed beatnik poetry with Exotica, and has gone on to become regarded as a benchmark album of the Exotica genre. This unique compilation reissues the LP, plus a non-album B-side and an outtake, alongside sixteen further bonus tracks of other artists singing/playing his songs, including Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, Sam Cooke, etc. It hardly needs adding that some serious rarities are contained herein, which have never previously appeared on CD.

Eden's Island

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