Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2012
- From the 80's Channel 4 show 'The Unforgettables'. Bernard Stanley
"Acker" Bilk MBE is an English clarinettist who was born on the 28th
January in 1929. He is famous for his style which includes the trademark
goatee, a bowler hat and a striped waistcoat. His clarinet style is
breathy with notes on the lower-register and is vibrato-rich.
Stranger on the Shore reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 1 in the US in 1961.
It was the theme tune for the BBC TV drama also called 'Stranger on the Shore'.
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My dad died on 19.10.2022. This will be his fairwell tune. He used to play it on clarinet, not very well, but, would give everything now to hear him playing it again.
Sorry to hear the jag took him out the game. You'll see him again in the afterlife.
Sorry to hear your loss. My grandfather also was taken that day suddenly although he was 100 bless him. I love this tune.
I’m sorry to hear of your father’s passing. This was my 95 year old father’s favorite song that he told me about when I was young. I learned to play it on the clarinet for him. Now my grandson is ready to start learning to play the clarinet, and I had to share this video with him.
So sweet, my condolences
My Dad passed away on 12th April 2020
I month short of his 103 Birthday .
He was a very musical person played Piano without any sheet music
My dads favourite..hes in a care home now , suffers with Alzhiemers, hes still only young at 89, breaks my heart, listening to this today
❤❤❤😢
My dad's fav in 2001
My Father Micheal Joseph Mcgruddy passed away surrounded by his family and his beloved partner Betty on 26.01.2024. This was also his farewell tune, he fell in love with the clarinet when he heard this and learnt to play it although he could never quite reach those high notes, no doubt he can now. May his gentle soul rest in peace.
May be rest in eternal peace.
R I P Michael ❤
As a six year old in 1962, I just loved this. When it came on the radio everyone had to be quiet while I listened.
my fathers absolutly favrolite tune and i was born 62
I was 6 in 1962 brother. 68th birthday coming up in 5 weeks. Ugh!
I do not understand how anyone could give this a thumbs down unless they don't have any soul! Beautiful melody!
You’d have to have negative soul.
There are some people who are never touched by music of any kind. I don't get it either. Are they tone deaf, or soulless?🤔
I love this tune so beautiful and memories!!!!! So sad hes gone but his music forever!!
I don't see any thumbs down
SHITE
This music reminds me of my parents. They will always listen to this on the radio back in the 60's . Brings back my good childhood memories. Miss my father my mother is now 95 and she will be 96 this September 28th 2023❤❣️❤️
This used to be my dad’s favourite. I miss my dad who passed on in 2014.
I can feel his music. It enters your heart.
This will never grow old.
Childhood memories of this magical feeling of music 🎶
I loved this the very first time I heard it, then as soon as the album came out I bought it with money from mowing lawns, still have it
We used to listen to this beautiful song when on a date in 1963. The full moon was showing through the windshield and I’ve held each othe and whispered I love you, she is gone now but that song plays in my head whenever I see a beautiful moon. Time goes by and now I’m 79 and wondering where all the years have gone,
Met this gent one night at Revesby Workers Club in nsw Australia. He was so Complete No airs and graces Just pure talent and an all-round nice Guy Perfect
The first song I learned on alto sax. My dad loved this song and bought me a songbook with Strangers in it. When I hear Bilk, it takes me back 56 years ago to my dad giving me a new sax and a songbook. RIP Dad and Bilk!
Patrick, my Dad was an alto sax player too when he was a teen in a band and played this for us as kids at home!! We were kids when I found it on the jukebox at my parents' league Bowling Alley in Angelton. There I fell in love with my first love! I played it so much! When I hear Bilk, it takes me back to 1965 to my those days of innocent love. RIP Daddy and Bilk!
This song means so very much to the people whose lives it touched. Haunting yet beautiful.
Just beautiful. Bring back the days when music was really music.
What a marvellous clarinettist.
A great musician. R.I.P Acker
This beautiful song always reminds me of my beloved folks dancing to this in our den in the early 1960s. I was only a toddler and I would grab their legs while they danced until my Pop would pick me up and the three of us would dance together. It is really sad that beautiful music like this isn't composed or performed anymore. Thank you so much Acker Bilk! ❤❤❤❤❤
This song became our song. My husband and I were teens back in the sixties. The first time we heard this we knew it would forever be our song. 56 years later, we dance to it if possible each time we hear it.
Me too ! We all have this music wt beautiful memories❤️❤️❤️💐💐💐
This song reminds me of my dear mother who passed away in 2009 when I was 50 yes old but every time I hear this song I remember the good old days when we play our LP player as a family , I love you mom
Ah that is so lovely good wishes
I used to play clarinet at school and I was so happy when I learnt how to play this. Doubt I could do it now tho 30 years on. Flawless performance, what a legend!
Never say never 😊
I played the clarinet in the school orchestra and loved playing Stranger on The Shore. I doubt I could even get a sound out of a clarinet now.
My father from Yorkshire in the paradise town of RABAUL always whistled strangers on the shore's and I got hooked and loved since 1964. And I still love ACKERS song's until now and I'm 64 years old GOD bless U Acker.
65 and still love it
Born in 1959, I was 2 years old when this song was released and it is my earliest memory of any song. My dad had the vinyl 45's and probably heard it when I was 4 or 5 years old. Absolute classic together with 'Moon River' and a handful of other hits. Timeless.
Danny - I totally agree with you! I was born in 1960 and beautiful music, like this song, Moon River and so many others are the soundtrack of my youth with my precious and beloved folks. Thank you so much for sharing your memories - they are so similar to mine! Sincerely, Meggie Ulrich 😊😊😊😊😊
J'avais 15 ans en 66, et j'écoutais Aker Bilk, Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter... que de bons souvenirs...
His sweet tone and inflection transcends time. Even now, over fifty years removed, I still am moved to tears sometimes.
In the afterlife , Acker can rest easy knowing how his music lives on.
One of my all time favourite instrumental pieces .So soulful .He makes that clarinet talk 👌👌👌
when I hear this,my mind zooms straight back to the early sixties.
I was 14 when this beautiful musical went to #1 in 1961. I also was at the age where I was discovering the difference between boys and girls and to learn how to slow dance cheek to cheek with girls at party's was a time of growing up. Dancing a slow dance to this great song, "Stranger On The Shore", made learning to dance so much easier and enjoyable. I have thought for many years just what a beautiful recording "Stranger On The Shore" was, and I'm so glad that after all these years I and other fans can still listen to and enjoy the great song.
I liked your story Millton.
you must have been born in '47 - so was I. Still my favorite song today
I was five walking past a music shop in 1961 at Cambridge with my dad and uncle when I first the haunting melody and it’s been my favourite ever since …
A marvelous number, which I had the fortune to listen live at 100 Oxford Club in 1964
Unbelievable, at the dawn of the invasion!
This song always brings back memories of my infancy and young days as my father always whistled this beautiful tune.
MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE STILL WALKING THIS SHORE TO THIS DAY IN HEAVEN ETERNAL MISS YOU MOM AND GEORGE AND DOLORES FOREVER MORE🙏🙏✝️✝️💖💖🙎👩✡✡
The unmistakable sound of the wonderful Mr Acker Bilk. It's the way he blows it.
Once played support for Acker at his home village of Pensford near Bristol UK. A real gent and star performer, lots of gags thrown in and a real party night. Never forget it.
Just beautiful perfection stands the test of time.
Acker was a brilliant musican
When I was a child my goodness how the years fly RIP thanks for the memories Acker
this is such a beautiful piece of music
This music is so beautiful, memories of my youth come back.
A true classic and a very beautiful piece of music.
I remember very well when this beautiful piece came out
When my mum use to play this ,, I always knew it bought memories bck for her , never got round to asking what they were , and she left this world in 1997 , so guess I never know 😔💔
Two minutes and 46 seconds of pure genius. I am old enough to remember the black and white programme this was the theme tune to, called Stranger On The Shore.
A cool, mellow, strong and lovely sound. Played so well on a wonderful instrument by a true master .
I used to listen to Acker Bilk in my student nursing days in the mid 1960s in Queensland Australia. I love this man. I love his music and I would listen to ‘Let’s go Latin’ every day after my long shifts and it would change my world view from exhaustion to exhilaration…. What a wonderful musician - the man had a heart and soul for music……❤️🌎🙏
Just started playing this in my band. Chords are so simple but! The melody is sublime, pure magic this song.
reminds me of my mum and dad x
Maybe the best version he ever did of this emotional wonderful melody
This has got to be one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded!
Brings back great memories so beautiful.
I remember my Dad had a collection of records he would listen to quietly on his own. My bedroom was right next door to the music room. I clearly remember hearing this tune but never new the name of it. How eerie but wonderful hearing all these years later.
This is one of those great slow fall in love songs that we dances to with that someone special at the school gym before they sent us to Vietnam.
Thank you for your service and your sacrifices. From the mom of a fellow vet.
Thank you Mr Bernard Stanley Bilk for all your music especially this masterpiece. I shall keep on playing it till I die 👌
always loved Acker Bilk, and was very lucky to see him and hear his Brill music
This was the #1 song of 1962, the year I was born and adopted. My mother would have listened to this on the radio.
The loveliest song to ever be played on a clarinet.💕👍
Must I forever be a stranger on the shore? 🏝️
Legendary Mr. Acker Bilk
Never forgotten it, from my days as a seven year old staying with Nanna and Pa, and listening to it on the wireless. Beautiful piece of music!
I played the clarinet as a kid, this guy is AMAZING! It reminds me how beautiful that instrument truly is, now I want to pull my old clarinet out.
The one and only Acker Bilk !
I caught perhaps 30 seconds of this melody about 10 years ago while driving my car, but the radio signal faded before they announced the name/composer. The music seemed so sentimental and timeless; it spoke directly to my soul. Then I never heard it again for years, but I kept trying to identify it. And now, at long last, this is it! The same hauntingly beautiful notes that I was enthralled by all those years ago in my car. "Stranger On The Shore" by Acker Bilk. Oddly enough, I found the song in a short bunny video titled "A worried little rabbit" from the "Brown Rabbit" youtube channel.
I remember the first wedding band I played in with older gentleman, this was one of the songs they played and I didn’t know it… and was not too crazy about it but 30 some years later… I realize how beautiful it is. When I ran across it again I knew I recognized it and it took me some time to remember where I heard it,.
This was my mother and stepfather’s song. Played so often in the 60’s…. Always brings me back to a sense of love.
I love clarinet music but this song by Acker Bilt is my absolute favorite. Hearing it, I become completely relaxed.
These were lovely tunes, my dad use to play ❤️❤️❤️
Same as that my friend
Beautiful and Melodic tune by legend Acker Bilk ,R I P ❤😢
Grew up on decent music, this being one of the finest ever written !
This was the theme music to a series about a French girl who came to live in England I liked the music
I have loved this tune from the first time I heard it, very long time ago.
love this music
This hit from Acker Bilk went to #1 on the Top 40 charts and also on the Adult Contemporary charts. It also went to #2 in the United Kingdom. It was also (drum roll, please), the #1 song for the year, 1962. Acker was also the first British artist to hit #1 on the Top 40 charts and to have a #1 song of the year, though it would soon get overshadowed by 4 other guys. We started out with Surfin' Safari by The Beach Boys and end with this smash hit. Now, we flip the calendar to 1963. And things will really get interesting with the music from that year. Why? Stay tuned.
Mollti suonano questo strumento, ma questo non è un clarinetto normale ma uno strumento magico che parla al nostro cuore! Giovanni
The most brilliant of sounds come from his clarinet. A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN and STRANGERS ON THE SHORE was just one of his BEST------, but this one is magnificent.
So very memorable to me , sentimental values ALWAYS xxx
One of my dad's favourites.
As a young boy, I was playing this song on my clarinet, Imagining I was like him. Brings lots of memories with this song.
I used to listen to this beautiful instrumental sitting with my beloved on our favourite corner table in our favourite restaurant nearly 40 years ago! I remembered the tune but forgot the title and had been searching all along but couldn't locate. But thanks to Google Assistant that i could get the title & play this beautiful no. once again & again. This is the best ever gift I have got for the New Year! God Bless Google! ❤🎉😊
Had the great pleasure of enjoying a beer on 2 separate occasions during his interval break on Hastings Pier about 60/61,What a great artiste and gentleman.R.I.P Acker.
I get chills down my spine every time I hear this classic tune it's spine chilling kudo's to aker bill for giving us that classic love Anthony lol
Beautiful brings back beautiful memories of my mum and dad going out to local dance hall, at local hospital to see Acker and also Kenny Ball and his Jazz men
So romantic. My late Dad's favorite
This was played at my brother's funeral, what a great wee man he was, loved his music 🎶
I met met the man himself Acker Bilk at Newark and he played this fantastic tune to me what a lovely piece of music and such a brilliant player of the clarinet and such a wonderful man I have always loved ❤ this tune and how only Acker Bilk can play it with such love and feelings 😊
Beautiful piece of music. I could listen to this for ever.
I never bore to listen this beautiful music.
Wonderfully played from the old home town.
A greate inspiration for clarinet players like me to learn from
No words can express the sentiment of this beautiful song! It stands alone!
In the film, "Mr. Holland's Opus", there is a scene where one of Mr. Holland's students plays this magnificent piece.
I was lucky enouĝh to be on holiday in mayorça a good few years ago now,but this tune under a medditeranion sky was absolutley the best experience of my lifetime,well done akker
A magnificent song love to hear again and again
I was born in 72 and my dad loves this , I will Always pass this time down my kids and further (I hope) it's beautiful.
We lost our mum last year, and this musician and especially this tune were always her favourite. Thinking of her as it plays. Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure. 💔.
It says so much without words
Beautiful and knowing
A masterpiece for ever.
Love this music
Beautiful song, I Remember this so well as a 12 year old. Sooooooo soothing !😊
My dad's favourite played at his funeral in 2015. Miss him makes me cry.
Beautifully done
what a great tone .to stand out on a clarinet like this is the same as jimmy hendrix or the edge on guitar...he was an individual.xxx
Loved this from 1959 thanks acker 🙏🙏🙏