RIP Acker Bilk

[mudskipper]

BBC News - Acker Bilk: legendary jazz clarinettist dies aged 85

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[suityou01]

Rest in piece legend.

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Rest in piece legend.

peace

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Auto correct. Don't fricking start pet.

[DaveB]

IIRC "stranger on the shore" was the theme to a tv programme back in the 60s.

Indeed.

Stranger on the Shore is a British television drama serial first broadcast by the BBC in 1961. It was written by Sheila Hodgson, and produced and directed by Kevin Sheldon. The five-episode series portrays Marie-Hélène Ronsin, a young French teenager, on her first trip to England as an au pair. Speaking some English, but very shy, she lives with a family in Brighton, and faces the challenges of culture shock. The series was followed the following year by a sequel, entitled Stranger in the City.

Acker Bilk's "Jenny" was renamed "Stranger on the Shore" when it was chosen as the theme for the series.[1] It was subsequently released as a single, spending 55 weeks in the UK singles chart[2] and becoming the best-selling record of 1962 in the U.S. chart.[3]

[Sysman]

IIRC "stranger on the shore" was the theme to a tv programme back in the 60s.

Vaguely recall it.

About a French au pair in the UK.

The opening sequence had her walking alone on a beach.

Can't remember what she looked like.