Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Acker Bilk, who has died aged 85, was a jazz clarinettist and bandleader who became a hugely popular figure in the wider world of ...

MR ACKER BILK Acker Bilk, MBE was born Bernard Stanley Bilk on January 28, 1929 in Pensford, Somerset, and was an English clarinettist and vocalist. After Acker left school, he worked in a cigarette ...

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England's Acker Bilk's big hit of 1961, the sugary, vibrato packed "Stranger on the Shore" masked the fact that Bilk had been (and continues to be ) a fine New Orleans jazz performer. Bilk was a ...

The jazz clarinettist had the biggest single of 1962 – and then a year later was rendered all but obsolete by the Beatles On 25 January 1963, Alexandra Palace in north London played host to an all ...

Stranger on the Shore is the haunting song that made Acker Bilk an international star. It was originally a shorter piece called Jenny that was named for his daughter. But when a 1960 children's TV ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… These days, ...

Acker Bilk, MBE was born Bernard Stanley Bilk on January 28, 1929 in Pensford, Somerset, and was an English clarinettist and vocalist. After Acker left school, he worked in a cigarette factory and ...

These days, Kenny G’s whole public existence seems to be limited to TV commercials where he makes fun of himself. But those of us who are old enough remember when Kenny G was running shit. In the late ...

Acker Bilk 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.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. These days, ...