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.

LONDON — Clarinet player Acker Bilk, whose smooth sound topped music charts on both sides of the Atlantic, has died at the age of 85. Manager Pamela Sutton says Bilk died Sunday at a hospital in Bath, ...

Clarinettist Acker Bilk, who personified the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and '60s, has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 85. His most famous song Stranger on the Shore was the UK's biggest ...

Somerset-born clarinet-player Acker Bilk (pictured right), a musician and singer with many thousands of Irish fans, was 81 last Thursday. "I feel great. I'm still playing, still gigging, and I hope to ...

LONDON (AP) - English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental "Stranger on the Shore," has died at the age ...

Acker Bilk holds his MBE awarded to him for services to the music industry.(AP) London: British jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk, who became an international star with his 1961 single "Stranger On The ...

Acker Bilk, who has died aged 85, was a jazz musician who rose to fame on a wave of enthusiasm for trad jazz but, with his distinctive look of long sideburns, goatee beard, garish waistcoat, and ...

In this file photo dated March 13, 2001, clarinettist and vocalist Acker Bilk holds his MBE awarded to him for services to the music industry, who has died Sunday Nov. 2, 2014, aged 85. The legendary ...