Mr. Acker Bilk Stranger On The Shore 1988 ( Live)

Stranger on the Shore is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named Jenny after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people entitled Stranger on the Shore. Real Name: Bernard Bilk Birth Date: 28th January 1929 Birth Place:Pensford Somerset Bilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for friend or mate. His parents tried to have him learn the piano, but Bilk as a boy found it restricting upo