Acker Bilk RIP

[Smilin Ed H]

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/acker-bilk-rip.html

Even if you don't know the name, you must have heard  Strangers on the Shore.

Worked with Van Morrison a few years back - and lived to tell the tale.

[Alan Smith]

Acker Bilk! RIP

Man, some of my early four year old or so memories are scrounging through the record collection of my parents HMV Gramophone (both land fill now) - which was comprised of:
- Popcorn and other switched-on smash hits
- James Last's 10,000th or so album
- Pam Ayres Live
- The Wurzels: Combine Harvester
- Mantovani's Greatest Hits
- a light orchestra album with a nude chick on the cover

and Mr Acker Bilk - The Best of...

Great memories - fare thee well AB

[Rocker]

I just heard about his death. R.I.P.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXiSBeP0jQ

[Mendota Heights]

This makes me sad. Remember playing Strangers on the shore as a young teen in the mid 90's. There's something special about that song.

[Rob Dean]

I was very sad to hear the news , he lived just a few miles from me when I was younger and at Secondary school and met him quite a few times. I was dating a girl from Pensford in the early 1980's and Bernard (Acker) could sometimes be found having a quiet pint in the local pub.

In fact my dad knew him even better , they worked together at Pensford Colliery (a few miles south of Bristol) in the 1950's and had met at various work re-unions in more recent years.

Yep R.I.P Mr Bilk

[donald]

I believe the year was 1962 .    I was 10.   If memory serves.  first year I had free access to top 40, having only one radio in the house.   I was lucky to acquire a 2 transistor radio on which I devoured every song.    Stranger stands out in my memory and my earliest spiritual connections to music.   So, this man lives on in MY memory.  thanks for the personal account Rob.