George Benson - Nature Boy Lyrics

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The best version.

The harmony in the intro...god

For my cousin, RIP.

Very smooth sailing superb song.

Здорово!

George Benson Nature Boy

Even my mother knew this song was about her peculiar /creative oldest child . She bought most of the music, she played this while it filled up the living room as she prepared the Saturday late after noon meal, and she saw how I was parLYZED , AND SHE SAID ALOUD ( breaking my dream/drunk haze)! ..Randy this song is about you.......................affirmed

I knew instantly when I was 16 yo hearing this song for the first time that this would be the opening theme song played in the movie epic of my life. It took my my breath and gave me a deeper vision of my self. It affirmed my "specailness",

Love it!♥️

un tema tan bello , yTAN MAL REGISTRADO, ,MAL SONIDO, BAJO VOLUMEN , QUE PENA, COMO LO ARRUINARON,

I want to cry .This best

Love when he hits every note as his guitar
Go George

Wrong album cover.

So smooth and so enchanting! Peace!

Tes chansons m ont emporté dans un voyage qui n avait pas de fin Merciiiiiiii. George ❤️🎶✈️😘🌺

I used to listen to George Benson when I was a boy. I loved his music. My favourite was a cover he did of Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." Beautiful song. :)

George " The Boss" Benson

You said it!

Very good song, but it's coming from the album "In Flight"

Takes me straight back to the 70s.when we was all young with know cares,full of energy and wonder.....I look at the world that has been created since then and I feel like weeping...the 70s was a very special decade,that's why the music was so good.and still stands the test of time.

Love this Song 🌹

Ecstasy to my ears...My Daddy, RIH, loved him some Benson..

GREAT Song....FOREVER...

Miles Davis Nature Boy Is Fab

George Benson Nature Boy Is Divine.

Funkadelic

so many magnificent versions of that song : this one, Nat King Cole's, David Bowie's, and recently the one from Aurora. Never forget the adaptation by Ennio Morricone for "Once upon in America", beautiful... Only few melodies can product such wonderful and different interpretations!

Superbe.

OH YEAHHH!!!

My grandfather used to play this song to me when I was little cuz he said I always wanted to be outside he passed in 2012 I’m 17 now I started tearing up when I heard the first couple seconds

Les frissons...

For Mark aka dfoot.. never forgotten x

This song melts my heart! Benson does it justice and more! love you NKC RIP allan.

this song break my heart each time i hear it

His voice is similar to Stevie Wonder's

I went looking for other versions of this song after hearing Nat King Cole's recording. While many versions were faithful to the 1948 version, it's cool to hear this version, true to the "R&B / Disco" era, yet still faithful to the feeling of the original. True to its time and still cool to hear this version today.

The lyrics are beautiful; reminds me of a friend. As a child my parents had the 78 rpm record by Nat King Cole.

👍✌✊

For all the artists who recognized the integrity of this song enough to cover it in the ensuing decades, I commend all of you. In 1977 when George Benson put his own spin on it, it gained a new life & broader exposure to the pop world ( which is good thing)! Thank you GB.

Dave, isn't it amazing how one's own context of a song within time and space give it that very special 'me' flavour. I don't know where you are but it would be so lovely to exchange notes with you over a cup of coffee what this song means to you and to let you know what it means to me. It's cosmic, man! ;-)

GREAT song is right for anyone, however, George put an incredible spin to it. BEAUTIFUL..

C'est la plus belle chanson du monde

Hmmmm. I feel a little of it. Part of it sounds like it came from "This masquerade."

lyrics OK, listen nature boy of Matt Goss acapela

.. did you mean Georgeous!?

Шикарный гитарист и вокалист!

I've been hooked on this song from the very first time I heard it I think I was about 15 I know Nat King Cole did it but I love this version especially with Harvey Mason keeping it in the pocket I love every bit of this song Thank You George for remaking it

The Kurt Elling version was my introduction to the song and it's myriad arrangements. Check it out sometime if you like. It definitely got me interested in the timelessness of the music and its message.

A remarkable remake. Still love it after 35 years. Beautiful song and dazzling guitar

Props to Nat "King" Cole and George Benson......They Both Breathe Life Into this Song

Every boy or man is a nature boy at one point or another.

This is dedicated to my baby my angel in heaven one day we will be together rest in peace i love you.

This version in Alien Covenant's trailer!

Here's a new one

I'm dancing outside with you in the moonlight you can Kiss me now Baby 💋

this is the best version of this song! haven't heard it a long time.....

bellissimo pezzo

George Benson Nature Boy

Words defy me...... just the genious that is George Benson.

Damn this takes me back to college; I had this album played it all the time.

The Nat King Cole version is better but I like this one more because it is from my youth.

One of the best songs I've ever heard. Masterpiece!

My life's theme , first version I ever heard. l love this and Nat's version and the original by eden ahbez

It has been said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"... this thing of beauty, ...so simple, but profound... and George B., thank you for your wonderful talent... you are amazing

The Singers Unlimited version of this song is amazing too.

My dad used to have me play it over and over again.lots of memories

I was so smitten when I first heard this, never knew at the time the late, great Nat King Cole sang the original. Different flavours, but I love both versions.

This brings back happy memories X

I have loved this song for over 30 years.

This song still gives me chills 30 years later!

going on 4 months now i been listening to this over and over again,!!! Has struck a nerve folks!!!!!

Wow... Brings back memories.

nice strings.

Love this version. Very soulful and jazzy.

I thought that Stevie Wonder sung this song. So, now, let me listen to the late Nat King Cole Song

+Fanouvvi I can bet many people thought of Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway as well.

@Coolie Gee Have you listened to the original recording?  The guy sounds so enchanting and eerie.. According to history,. the writing of this song appeared to the late Nat King Cole dressing room after a show.. He(the songwriter) wore a dark hooded cape and carried a box in his hand.. knocked on the dressing room door of Nat King Cole and handed him the box.. mysteriously walked away. 
I google meaning of Nature Boy.. I found the telling of that story. 

LA MAS LINDA version de natura boys es fantastica. Muhas versiones se han creado PEro esta es sin duda la mas lhermosa..

I first heard Nat King Coles version which was a sound track to a film I watched once,can't think if the name of it.but it brought a tear to my eye hearing it.

The movie was "The Boy with Green Hair." It starred a young Dean Stockwell as Peter (the boy with green hair). It was a powerful anti-war movie made in the late 40's

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga recorded it for their jazz collaborative album, Cheek to Cheek(2014).

Film soundtracks:  The Boy with Green Hair, The Talented Mr. Ripley, & the 2001 musical Moulin Rouge!,  David Bowie's  techno version

Written by eden ahbez, given to Nat King Cole in 1948. i recommend listening to eden's version but definitely read his story (Wiki for example). The song is thought to be about his mentor Bill Pestor who brought the Naturemensch philosophy to California in the early 1900's - the first "hippies".

texzenrck
All true. On you tube there is a clip from about 1948 of Ahbez with Nat King Cole. He had a long white robe, long hair and a beard. Looked JUST like a hippie of 20 yrs. later. I'm sure he scared people back then to death! in the '60's Brian Wilson became friends with him.

a little shy... sad of eye... very wise...

I didn't know that,,,thank you,!!!.

WOW!  I forgot how much I love this version of "Nature Boy"!!!!!!

Still a good song after all these years to listen to

I love GB but have to disagree with most this funk version does not IMHO match the NKC version.

Synth line at the start (mimicking cellos) was intense...

Just been listening to the Nat King Cole version of this on radio 2.  As much as I love NKC, this is by far the best version IMHO - adore George Benson; seeing this cover reminded me that I had this album!! :-)

Yes,
 I listened to it and thought the same. All respect to NKC, But George takes it up another level.

@edpegalf Indeed! Just love that intro! :-) 

조지벤슨 버전이 최고!! 사랑해요 조지옹

this is the original nat king cole strings harvey mason on drums!!!

Quality Song...........

This song has been out when I was 10 years old. This has been 37 years since I heard this song that was remade. This was a remake of Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy" that he has done.

Hey Darrell!  Thanks, you really know your stuff!   I love this version!!   ;p

This song is originally composed by Eden Ahbez

Woh Guys!
I was driving through the town when I heard this song at the radio: I literally felt in love with it!

Same way

Ein ruhiger, nachdenklicher und besinnlicher Song!

@DeliverTheWord1, My Sentiments, I too am an LA Street survivor also, Many of My Brothers were lost in the haze of the LA gang maze also, and If it were'nt for the Grace of God and Music, I would not be here. ~Peace,Jv~

LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinkin' the same thing.

feel the same, listen to just the wo of us another awesome one!!

Un moment de grâce! un joyau!

damn , sounds so much like Stevie :)

Tu a raison.

Yeah, how true.

The best version.

This song was written about Paramahansa Yogananda...."sad of eyes.....very wise...very wise was he"....."the greatest thing, you could ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return"......

Soon as I saw this channel I knew I would sub. GREAT.

George Benson est un grand musicien,quand je l ecoute ca me degage le stresse.

Wise man u and your father!

YES SIR!