I love the clarinet. I play and teach piano but the clarinet has been one of my favorite instruments. I just love how it sounds, so mellow and beautiful. When my son took music in high school, his instrument was clarinet. I bought one for him to practic onand I decided to teach myself too. I can play a bit but need to practice a lot more; just don't get enough time.
Listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGHnv7tWigM
Acker Bilk is Bernard Stanley Bilk of Somerset, England. ( Acker is a term for "friend"). He took up the clarinet in the UK Royal Army. In 1958, he formed the Paramount Jazz Band.
This is an instrumental and was written in a taxi cab.It was originally named after his daughter Jenny n his LP Sentimental Journey.The song's name was changed when Bilk played it as the theme song for a new children's TV show, Stranger On The Shore. The show, which aired on the BBC, the was about a French "Au Pair" girl living in England - she was the Stranger On The Shore.6 months after this hit #1 in England, it went to #1 in the US, where Billboard named it the #1 single for the year 1962. It topped the charts there for 7 weeks.This was the first song by a British artist to top the US charts.
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