Originally Posted By: Le Miz
Notes,

I agree about the Darin covers of "Mack" and "Baby". I think Bobby Darin also had great covers of "Lazy River" and "Beyond The Sea" ("Le Mer"). I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I prefer Bobby Darin"s cover of Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy", though I love Cole's too.



Yes, Bobby D was a National Treasure AFAIC.

I always dug his kinda "cakey-pop" version of Nature Boy too, although I also always thought that the female background vox were a bit derived, but then along came Kurt Elling around 2000 and:

Another great Jazz Pianist, Laurence Hobgood, all over the arrangement that he likely had the most hand in creating:



Nature Boy was written by a rather odd egg, one Eden Ahbez, who lived outdoors underneath the big Hollywood sign, among other oddities. It was possibly the only song he ever wrote, certainly the only one to become any sort of hit or make money. Go figure.


--Mac


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