Klarinet Archive - Posting 000746.txt from 2002/07

From: "Anthony Wakefield" <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Was Wince (and a new question...)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:36:16 -0400

It wasn`t Top Forty - (here in UK). It was number ONE!
And the name Leon Young springs to mind. He wasn`t a clarinet player, but he
was the organist and choirmaster of Tunbridge (Sussex) Parish Church for 40
years.
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: <LeliaLoban@-----.com>
>
> 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

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