From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of stories and original documentaries from KCRW's independent producer project.

You can find this clip from an old TV show from 1948 called We The People, and everything

about this show is classic post-war America

crew cuts and skinny ties stilted scripted conversation. But then all of a sudden a

guy dressed in robes with long hair and a beard walks a bicycle on stage.

And he's bringing his bicycle onto our Gulf oil stage right now.

This guy looks like a time traveler from the year 1968. He sits down on the stage so the

host has to crouch down to interview him. What is this person doing on television in 1948? Well it turns out he's

written the most popular song in America. I was born with a love for nature and a desire

to find God. Finally I came a love for nature and a desire to find God.

Finally, I came to look for nature as a great symptom,

and upon love as the scene of that symptom.

Today on the program, Nature Boy, a three-part suite.

Reporter Eric Milinsky presents three stories from three different time periods

about a man who was so far ahead of his time,

he was always out of sync with the rest of the world. From KCRW.com it's unfictional and part one scriptures of the golden age. It's 1987. Joe remur Golden Age.

It's 1987.

Joe Remersa is working at the Salty Dog Recording Studio is in Los Angeles.

An old man shows up with long white hair and a beard. He's wearing robes and he says he wants to hire Joe as a sound engineer.

He introduced himself to me. He says, my name's Eden the beds but you can call me Abbey and you can pronounce it like, well,

Abbey.

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