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The music world mourns as it has lost yet another legend. Clarinettist Acker Bilk made his transition into the light on November 2, 2014, at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Bilk’s last performance was in August 2013 at the Brecon jazz festival in Wales. Left behind are his beloved wife Jean and Acker's two children Peter and Jenny. Acker's personal manager Pamela Frances Sutton said he was a ‘wonder of a man’ adding: ‘He lived for music – and music was his life.’ Your music lives on forever Acker. Ambriel

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Song: Stranger on the Shore
Album: Sentimental Journey
Real Name: Bernard Bilk (Acker" is a term for "friend").
Birth Date: January 28, 1929 - November 2, 2014.
Birth Place:Pensford Somerset, England
Acker Bilk's official website, biography: http://www.ackersmusicagency.co.uk/biography.htm

Acker Bilk, born Bernard Stanley Bilk in Somerset, England has been described as "Great Master of the Clarinet" This was the first song by a British artist to top the US charts. Believe it or not Acker's music has been enjoyed in Outer Space. A cassette belonging to Gene Cernan was flown around the moon in Apollo10. Bilk took up the clarinet in the UK Royal Army in 1958, in a band he formed called the Paramount Jazz Band. It's an instrumental song featuring Bilk's clarinet.
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(Btw, Apollo 10 was the "first manned flight" of the lunar module around the moon. Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17 all landed on the moon. Apollo 13 moon landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded on board. The Apollo 18-20 missions were cancelled due to lack of funds. Unfortunately, all three crew members of Apollo 1 died in a training accident. And most of us know about the Challenger. http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/They-Didnt-Walk-on-the-Moon-313260.html
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Stranger On The Shore was originally named "Jenny" (after Acker's daughter), on his LP Sentimental Journey, the song's name was changed when Bilk played it as the theme song for a new children's TV show, Stranger On The Shore. The show, which aired on the BBC was about a French "Au Pair" girl living in England; she was the Stranger On The Shore. The closing credits of the film were of her standing on the beach looking out to sea, towards France. (thanks to Anne Wade - Glasgow, Scotland for providing that info). Bilk wrote Stranger On The Shore in a taxicab.
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Here I stand, watching the tide go out
So all alone and blue
Just dreaming dreams of you

I watched your ship
As it sailed out to sea
Taking all my dreams
And taking all of me

The sighing of the waves
The wailing of the wind
The tears in my eyes burn
Pleading, "My love, return"

Why, oh, why must I go on like this?
Shall I just be a lonely
Stranger on the Shore?

The sighing of the waves
The wailing of the wind
The tears in my eyes burn
Pleading, "My love, return"
Why, oh, why must I go on like this?
Shall I just be a lonely
Stranger on the shore?

Lyrics by Robert Mellin.

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