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Titled for the monster hit which dominated charts around the world in 1962, Stranger on the Shore is light listening at its best, a dozen slices of drifting, clarinet-led melody which simultaneously had absolutely nothing to do with English pop music as it moved toward the denouement of the Mersey boom -- and encapsulates it as well. Whichever golden age of pop history one chooses to look at, the U.K. charts' capacity to throw up unexpected shockers has remained their most constant (and constantly redeeming) feature of all. Whether it's Englebert Humperdinck outselling "Strawberry Fields Forever" in 1967, or Bob the Builder beating Eminem to number one 30-some years later, the most popular pop refuses to be driven by either fad or fashion. And in the light of those successes, Bilk's domination of 1962 seems so natural it's all but mundane. This album, on the other hand, is anything but. Drawing from traditional, classical, and light orchestral sources, Bilk -- expertly accompanied by the Leon Young String Chorale -- is a master of the sweeping epic, and it doesn't matter whether he's tackling a standard as trite as "Deep Purple" or Brahms' Lullaby, or something as impossibly soul-stirring as "Greensleeves." Everything emerges a major statement. "Stranger on the Shore" itself, meanwhile, is so deeply embedded in the musical consciousness that it seems incredible that it's an original Bilk/Young composition, one of just two on the album. The other, "Is This the Blues?," is just as captivating, by the way. With that song and this album, Bilk didn't simply give the world a set of well-played standards; he set a standard which has still to be eclipsed.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Acker Bilk, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1980 Record Supervision Ltd.
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - Isham Jones, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1966 Record Supervision Ltd.
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Sidney Bechet, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1966 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Andy Razaf, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Fats Waller, ComposerLyricist - Harry Brooks, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Fats Thomas Walker, Producer
℗ 1988 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, Clarinet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young, Arranger, Work Arranger - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1988 Universal Classics & Jazz
Acker Bilk, Clarinet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Buck Ram, ComposerLyricist - Ande Rand, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1963 Universal Classics & Jazz
Acker Bilk, Clarinet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Benjamin Homer, ComposerLyricist - Bud Green, ComposerLyricist - LES BROWN, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1962 Universal Classics & Jazz
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1966 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Charles Trenet, ComposerLyricist - Albert Lasry, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1966 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Johnny Mercer, Author - Henry Mancini, Composer - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1968 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Leon Young, Arranger, Work Arranger - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1963 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Acker Bilk, MainArtist - Douglass Cross, ComposerLyricist - George C. Cory Jr., ComposerLyricist - Leon Young String Chorale, FeaturedArtist - Denis Preston, Producer
℗ 1988 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Albumbeschreibung
Titled for the monster hit which dominated charts around the world in 1962, Stranger on the Shore is light listening at its best, a dozen slices of drifting, clarinet-led melody which simultaneously had absolutely nothing to do with English pop music as it moved toward the denouement of the Mersey boom -- and encapsulates it as well. Whichever golden age of pop history one chooses to look at, the U.K. charts' capacity to throw up unexpected shockers has remained their most constant (and constantly redeeming) feature of all. Whether it's Englebert Humperdinck outselling "Strawberry Fields Forever" in 1967, or Bob the Builder beating Eminem to number one 30-some years later, the most popular pop refuses to be driven by either fad or fashion. And in the light of those successes, Bilk's domination of 1962 seems so natural it's all but mundane. This album, on the other hand, is anything but. Drawing from traditional, classical, and light orchestral sources, Bilk -- expertly accompanied by the Leon Young String Chorale -- is a master of the sweeping epic, and it doesn't matter whether he's tackling a standard as trite as "Deep Purple" or Brahms' Lullaby, or something as impossibly soul-stirring as "Greensleeves." Everything emerges a major statement. "Stranger on the Shore" itself, meanwhile, is so deeply embedded in the musical consciousness that it seems incredible that it's an original Bilk/Young composition, one of just two on the album. The other, "Is This the Blues?," is just as captivating, by the way. With that song and this album, Bilk didn't simply give the world a set of well-played standards; he set a standard which has still to be eclipsed.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:53
- Main artists: Acker Bilk
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Polydor Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 1988 Polydor Ltd. (UK) ℗ 1980 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
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