Acker Bilk - Stranger on the Shore (2023)

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Artist: Acker Bilk
Title: Stranger on the Shore
Year Of Release: 2014/2023
Label: Moonhoney Records
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 02:22:23
Total Size: 350/669 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Stranger on the Shore (Remastered 2014) 2:52
02. Lullaby (Remastered 2014) 2:35
03. Mean to Me (Remastered 2014) 3:06
04. Greensleeves (Remastered 2014) 2:39
05. Take My Lips (Remastered 2014) 2:07
06. Nobody Knows (Remastered 2014) 2:22
07. Is This the Blues? (Remastered 2014) 2:50
08. Cielito Lindo (Remastered 2014) 2:25
09. Deep Purple (Remastered 2014) 3:32
10. I Can't Get Started (Remastered 2014) 2:35
11. Carolina Moon (Remastered 2014) 2:54
12. Moonlight Tango (Remastered 2014) 2:33
13. In the Old French Quarter of New Orleans (Remastered 2014) 2:12
14. I'll Be Around (Remastered 2014) 2:54
15. Diamantina (Remastered 2014) 2:14
16. The Lady Sings the Blues (Remastered 2014) 2:39
17. The Missouri Waltz (Remastered 2014) 2:40
18. Bitter Harvest (Remastered 2014) 2:10
19. I'll Be Seeing You (Remastered 2014) 2:59
20. Shenandoah (Remastered 2014) 2:44
21. Tangerine (Remastered 2014) 2:37
22. C.R.E. March (Remastered 2014) 2:41
23. Dardenella (Remastered 2014) 3:38
24. Franklin Street Blues (Remastered 2014) (3:01
25. Blaze Away (Remastered 2014) 2:39
26. Easter Parade (From "As Thousands Cheer") [Remastered 2014] 2:41
27. Marching Through Georgia (Remastered 2014) 3:17
28. I'm a Persian Market (Remastered 2014) 3:09
29. I'm Going Home (Remastered 2014) 2:46
30. Ory's Creole Trombone (Remastered 2014) 2:57
31. Summer Set (Remastered 2014) 3:35
32. Let the Light from the Lighthouse Shine (Remastered 2014) 2:49
33. Berliner Luft March (Remastered 2014) 2:44
34. Tiger Rag (Remastered 2014) 2:58
35. Lucky Rock (Remastered 2014) 5:23
36. Cushion Foot Stomp (Remastered 2014) 2:48
37. Run Come See Jerusalem (Remastered 2014) 2:06
38. Old Comrades March (Remastered 2014) 2:51
39. Grandpa's Spells (Remastered 2014) 1:55
40. Creole Love Call (Remastered 2014) 2:45
41. I've Found a New Baby (Remastered 2014) 2:59
42. This Town (Remastered 2014) 2:58
43. Bula Bula (Remastered 2014) 2:59
44. Sentimental Journey (Remastered 2014) 2:52
45. Tell 'em About Me (Remastered 2014) 2:27
46. Chattanooga Stomps (Remastered 2014) 3:25
47. Sneak Away (Remastered 2014) 2:57
48. Wilbur (Remastered 2014) 3:01
49. Oh, Marie! (Remastered 2014) 2:55
50. Ole Miss Rag (Remastered 2014) 3:38

Acker Bilk -- or Mr. Acker Bilk, as he was billed -- has won immortality on rock oldies radio for his surprise 1962 hit Stranger on the Shore, an evocative ballad featuring his heavily quavering low-register clarinet over a bank of strings. To the jazz world, though, he has a longer-running track record as one of the biggest stars of Britain's trad jazz boom, playing in a distinctive early New Orleans manner. After learning his instrument in the British Army, Bilk joined Ken Colyer's trad band in 1954 before stepping out on his own in 1956. By 1960, a record of his, Summer Set -- a pun on the name of his home county -- landed on the British pop charts, and Bilk was on his way, clad in the Edwardian clothing and bowler hats that his publicist told his Paramount Jazz Band to wear. Several other British hits followed, but none bigger than Stranger, which Bilk wrote for his daughter Jenny. The single stayed 55 weeks on the British charts and crossed the sea to America, where it hit number one in an era when radio was open to oddball records of all idioms (Bilk gratefully called Stranger my old-age pension). Released on English Columbia in Britain, several Bilk albums came out in America on the Atco label, and he continued to have hits until the British rock invasion of 1964 made trad seem quaint. With that, Bilk moved into cabaret and continued to have some success in Europe, leading jazz bands, recording with lush string ensembles, and even scoring another hit, Aria (number five in Britain), in 1976. Continuing to perform through the 2000s, Bilk slackened his pace so that he could pursue, like Miles Davis, a hobby of painting.

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