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irishemigrant
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11356765
One of those songs/tunes, you hear every year or so, either as background, or in full.
LONDON (AP) " English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore," has died at the age of 85.
Manager Pamela Sutton said Bilk died Sunday at a hospital in Bath, southwestern England. The cause of death was not announced.
Born Bernard Stanley Bilk in 1929 in the southwestern English county of Somerset, Bilk adopted the name Acker from a local slang term for friend.
He learned the clarinet as a bored army conscript, stationed in Egypt after World War II, and became one of the stars of Britain's 1950s "trad jazz" scene.
Before the British rock invasion, he was the first U.K act to top the Billboard music chart in the 1960s, with "Stranger on the Shore." The wistful 1961 instrumental also spent more than a year in the British charts and became his signature tune.
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Ahmastin Geebougah
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Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:43 am |
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A real gentleman and a great entertainer. The sound of "Stranger on The Shore" is now worming its way into my mind and will not go!
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lakeside77
A chaff in the USA
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Location: Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old
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Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:08 pm |
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It's been a long time since I've heard Stranger on the Shore, but I do remember DJs would introduce it as "by Mr. Acker Bilk."
BTW, Andy Williams recorded a vocal version of Stranger on the Shore but it didn't do justice to Acker Bilk's clarinet solo so I won't post a link. |
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