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 ...

Clarinet player Acker Bilk is "fed up" with playing his most famous tune - Stranger on the Shore. The 83-year-old jazz musician who lives in Pensford, Somerset, had a hit with it in the early 1960s ...

English clarinet player Acker Bilk, who reached the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental “Stranger on the Shore,” has died. He was 85. Bilk died Sunday at a hospital in Bath, ...

Jazz singer and clarinettist Acker Bilk has died at the age of 85. The performer, who lived in Pensford, Somerset, died yesterday afternoon at Bath's Royal United Hospital, his manager Pamela Sutton ...

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.

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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, ...

The 83-year-old jazz musician who lives in Pensford, Somerset, had a hit with it in the early 1960s and has played it regularly ever since. His record was the UK's biggest selling single of 1962 and ...

Tributes have been paid to jazz singer and clarinettist Acker Bilk, who has died at the age of 85. The performer, who lived in Pensford, Somerset, died yesterday afternoon at Bath's Royal United ...

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, ...