Klarinet Archive - Posting 000719.txt from 2002/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Music the makes you Wince (and a new question...)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:05:23 -0400

Karona Poindexter wrote,
>Actually, a clarinet intro is in one of Sting's songs on his
>latest CD. But he does different genres and the solo is
>more jazzy than anything else.

Anyone else remember Acker Bilk's solo clarinet playing in his Top Forty Hit,
"Stranger On the Shore," from 1962? I liked it a lot back then (age 12),
although today I find the vibrato a tad much. "Stranger on the Shore" was
quite an anomaly for cookie cutter Top Forty at the time. "Stranger" wasn't
rock, it wasn't standard pop, it wasn't swing, it wasn't classical--but
despite its mellowness, it wasn't elevator music, either.

Lelia