R.I.P. Acker Bilk - 85

Jazz singer and clarinettist Acker Bilk who was first UK act to top the US charts in the 1960s dies aged 85 | Daily Mail Online

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Bilk started playing the clarinet while doing his national service with the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone. His 1962 tune Stranger on the Shore, originally called Jenny after his daughter, was number one in the US and the UK, and sold one million copies. He was the second British musician in history to top the Billboard charts, with only Vera Lynn succeeding to do so before him with Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart in 1952

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