thanks Joe so Much ..... this all has been a mysterious time for me the
last week..... I saw the PBS nat King Cole
BIO and heard the song for 1st time... Ive listened to many cuts by
many artists today.. Like Earl Klugh
and Celine Dion and miles Davis and othere..... This song started me on
MOnday on my crusade to help Bakers Keyboard Lounge in Detroit...... as
I felt the Spirits Of Art Tatum ( from my town Toledo) Nat King Cole(
who played at Bakers) and Eddie abrahms a piano playerr i used to
represent in 70s and 80s
where tugging at me to help the lounge........ Now this song has become
my anthem and my theme...
If ever I would like to be remebered with a song this is it.... and now
the Green hair,,, never saw it but I also
have very strong feelings that war and hate are not good for kids also.....
so thanks tfor enlightening... between the athor of Nature boy and this
Movie script,,, who could make this stuff up??? well theres much more
that I havnt told mopo as Its so Bizarre even I have not wanted to talk
about it...
But its 100% true..... and I am trying to gather my wits to
explain....... maybe I will later.............
It may be the most bizarre thing I ever posted on Mopo.
Joseph Bonelli wrote:
Nat King Cole was indeed one of the greats!! And this haunting song
has a place in movie history:
"Nature Boy" is from the soundtrack of the 1948 film "The Boy with
Green Hair" which was directed by Joseph Losey and starred the young
Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan and Barbara Rush. It was the
first film I saw at age 5. I never forgot it.
The film's haunting imagery affected me and when I saw it again on TV
40 years later, scenes that had stuck in my memory were played out
once again exactly as I remembered. So much for the power of film on
young minds.
The picture had sort of "disappeared" for all that time due to the
controversy surrounding it Losey was blacklisted of course.
Stockwell is a young boy whose parents are killed in World War II. He
goes to live with his uncle and, after seeing at school a presentation
on "war orphans," his hair turns green overnight. He soon learns that
he has become "different" so he can deliver the important message:
"War is bad for children." Hopefully the message will be taken to
heart and war will disappear. We all know the outcome.
Of course, this "insidious" message had to be supressed in
cold-war-scare America and the picture soon disappeared into the
vaults, not to be seen until almost half a century later. Joe Losey
went to England where his career continued with such wonderful
British-made films as "The Servant" and "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Dean Stockwell has stated on more than one occasion that he was proud
of his participation in "The Boy with Green Hair" when he made it and
continued his pride in the film and its message down the years.
A DVD has been available for a long time but the film can now be
ordered through the Warner Bros movie-on-demand service. I highly
recommend it. It's an interesting fantasy and its message speaks
loudly some 62 years after its release! And "Nature Boy," the song,
will haunt you.....as it is obviously doing now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040185/
Joe B
PS-- I noted when checking the IMDB listing that a commentator said
she saw the film in the 1960s on tv. She remarked on the black and
white photography. However, "The Boy with Green Hair" is in
Technicolor, though it certainly would have been seen in B&W on tv
then as one saw "color" only on network specials and a few shows like
"Bonanza."
I stand corrected by her that it was unseen altogether until the 1980s.
--- On Sun, 2/21/10, Tom Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Tom Martin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT RE: THE WRITER OF "NATURE BOY"
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 10:55 AM
excellent article and review... also the linked site for him is
cool.... Thanks Rick !
There are like 20 verisons of Nature boy on Lala
[email protected] wrote:
Thanks, Tom, for bringing "Nature Boy" to our attention. What a
trip it is to check out the bio of the song's writer. He was a
"hippie" twenty years before being a hippie was cool. Anyone who
has an extra minute should check this out....the bio...and the
Google images of this guy. Amazing.
Rick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_ahbez
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