Stranger on the shore (single)

Stranger on the shore is a single of Acker Bilk and Leon String Chorale. It comes from their eponymous album . The song, for clarinet and string orchestra Bilk wrote for his daughter Jenny, which is also the working title of the song was. The song was used for the eponymous BBC series. The series started on September 24th 1961, the single was published in October.

There are many covers of this song included famous artists below are Duke Ellington (version for saxophone), Duane Eddy (version for guitar, 1965) and (an even softer)Kenny G (version for saxophone, 1999).

Robert Mellin wrote lyrics to the song. Also, for example, which version brought success in a performance of Andy Williams (38th place in Billboard Hot 100) and The Drifters (73rd place). ==Hitnotering   == Bilk played his number in the international charts. In the United Kingdom took the second place. Sales there are better defined by number of listed hat weeks: 55. It was one of the best selling singles in 1961/1962. A year later it reached the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100. For the Netherlands and Belgium it was still too early for a hit parade.