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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

During the American rock and roll era (1955-present), several hundred British singles have topped the American charts but the very first was by a former traditional jazz artist who never had another ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...