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Acker Bilk
English clarinetist and vocalist (1929–2014)
Acker Bilk MBE | |
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| Birth name | Bernard Stanley Bilk |
| Born | (1929-01-28)28 January 1929 Pensford, Somerset, England |
| Died | 2 November 2014(2014-11-02) (aged 85) Bath, Somerset, England |
| Genres | Trad jazz, Easy listening[citation needed] |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Clarinet |
| Years active | 1954–2013 |
| Labels | Atco, EMI, Columbia, Castle, Philips, Stomp Off, GNP, Lake |
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Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, MBE (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.
Bilk's 1961 instrumental tune "Stranger on the Shore" became the UK's biggest selling single of 1962, spending 55 weeks on the charts and reaching Number 1. It was the first single to top the UK and US charts simultaneously, and the first No. 1 sin
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| Track number | Play | Loved | Track name | Artist name | Buy | Options | Duration | Listeners |
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| 1 | Play track | Love this track | Jean | 2:51 | 1,102 listeners | |||
| 2 | Play track | Love this track | We've Only Just Begun | 3:02 | 1,381 listeners | |||
| 3 | Play track | Love this track | The Rose | 3:17 | 1,629 listeners | |||
| 4 | Love this track | Eres Tu (Touch the Wind) | 3:12 | 331 listeners | ||||
| 5 | Play track | Love this track | Morning Has Broken | 3:01 | 2,522 listeners | |||
| 6 | Love this track | You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me | 3:58 | 704 listeners | ||||
| 7 | Play track | Love this track | I Left My Heart In San Francisco | 2:38 | 1,502 listeners | |||
| 8 | Play track | Love this track | Let It Be Me | 2:35 | 1,128 listeners | |||
| 9 | Play track | Love this track | Hey Jude | 4:12 | 2,144 listeners | |||
| 10 | Love this track | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | 3:44 | 919 listeners | ||||
| 11 | Play track | Love thi • Clarinet and Saxophone
BiographyBilk earned the nickname Acker from the Somerset slang for ‘friend’ or ‘mate’. His parents tried to teach him the piano, but as a boy, Bilk funnen it restricted his love of outdoor activities including football. He lost two front teeth in a school fight and half a finger in a sledging accident, both of which Bilk has claimed to have affected his eventual clarinet style. He learned the clarinet while serving in the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone after his sapper friend John A. Britten gave him a clarinet that he had bought at a bazaar and had no use for. The clarinet had no reed and Britten fashioned a makeshift reed for the instrument out of some scrap wood, and bygd the mid-1950s he was playing professionally. Bilk was part of the boom in traditional jazz that swept the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. He first joined Ken Colyer’s grupp in 1954, and then formed his own ensemble, The Paramount Jazz Band, in 1956. Four years late |