Stranger on the Shore: Anthology [Import]

Acker Bilk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00002R0MX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,489 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stranger On The Shore

2. Windmills Of Your Mind

3. Yesterday

4. Michelle

5. Bachianas Brasileiras No.5

6. Nature Boy

7. Bridge Over Troubled Water

8. Feelings

9. Miss You Nights

10. Norweigan Wood

11. Autumn Leaves

12. Nancy With The Laughing Face

13. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

14. Imagine

15. Aria

16. Moonlight In Vermont

17. The Way We Were

18. Someone To Watch Over Me

19. Send In The Clowns

20. What A Wonderful World

Editorial Reviews

Acker Bilk -- or Mr. Acker Bilk, as he was billed -- 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. To the jazz world, though, he has a longer-running track record as one of the biggest stars of Britain's trad jazz boom, playing in a distinctive early New Orleans manner. BMG. 2003. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite instrumental of all time, May 17, 2000

By 

Joseph H Pierre "Joe Pierre" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stranger on the Shore (Audio CD)

I'm 70-years-old, and have survived a variety of musical fads and tastes, but this instrumental by Acker Bilk is my all-time favorite.

Many years ago--in the late 'fifties--on the way to Portland in my car, I heard this song on the radio. It hit me hard. I almost braked, I was so stunned by its beauty. The B-flat clarinet was absolutely soulful. It was as if the tune had been written and performed especially for me and had been written in my soul.

Since then, my daughter--now grown and with a couple of grandchildren--when she was in grade school, learned to play the clarinet so that she could play it for me. She knew how I loved it.

No other artist does it like Acker Bilk.

Probably everyone has heard it by now, but if you have not, may I recommend it to you?

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Garden Party, April 3, 2006

By 

John M. Bell "ex DJ" (SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stranger on the Shore (Audio CD)

Although the songs are done well, "Stranger on the Shore" is not the song that was the number one song of the year in 1963. It reminds me of Rick[y] Nelson's performance at Madison Square Garden; it was not the same! Stranger on the Shore has been made "new and improved [?]" and does not have the Leon Young Corale nor the distictive ending. Ending,what ending! This is not the song that was my closing theme song as a disc jockey.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good, but doesn't seem to be his "old" style., June 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stranger on the Shore (Audio CD)

I thought this was not his old style like on the original vinyl. The selections on "Some of the Best" are much more like it. Even "Stranger on the Shore" sounds different.