Acker Bilk Esquire - Stranger On The Shore

• Accompanied By – The Leon Young String Chorale
• Design [Cover] – Allan Stephensen
• Liner Notes – Mr. Peter Leslie
• Producer – Mr. Adrian Kerridge
• Supervised By – Mr. Denis Preston

• Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA
• Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 15100-A
• Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 15100-B

Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk Esquire, Chris Barber's Jazz Band, Mr. Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore. Acker Bilk - Lullaby. Acker Bilk - Mean To Me. Acker Bilk - Cielito Lindo. Stranger On the Shore - Acker Bilk. Some of the hits of Acker Bilk. Bilk Acker. Warner Chappell. Stranger on the Shore is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named Jenny after her. The tune was written on a single scrap of paper by Bilk and handed over to Leon Young 1916-1991 who crafted the string arrangement, including the characteristic harmonic shifts at the very end. The recording was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people, Stranger on the Shore. It was first released in 1961 in the UK, and then in the. Acker Bilk wrote Stranger on the Shore for a British television serial series, and recorded it as the title track of a new album in which his signature deep, quivering clarinet was backed by the Leon Young String Chorale. The single was not only a big hit in the United Kingdom where it stayed on the charts for a remarkable 55 weeks, gaining a second wind after Bilk was the subject of the TV show This Is Your Life but shot to the top of the American charts as well at a time when the American pop charts and radio playlists were. open to just about anything, in just abou read mor. Stranger on the Shore. Другие версии. Stranger On The Shore. Acker Bilk. Completa tu colección de Acker Bilk With The Splendid Assistance Of The Leon Young String Chorale. Album 1961 16 Songs. Stranger On the Shore. Jazz : Stranger On The Shore 1961. Charted: 2 1. Get the Sheet Music License This Song . songfacts . Acker Bilk was Bernard Stanley Bilk of Somerset, England Acker is a term for friend. He took up the clarinet in the UK Royal Army. In 1958, he formed the Paramount Jazz Band. This is an instrumental song featuring Bilk's clarinet. Mellin's lyric finds the stranger on the shore heartbroken, wishing his love will return. The band Squeeze paid tribute to this song with a track on their 1982 album Sweets From A Stranger called Stranger Than the Stranger on the Shore. More songs from Acker Bilk