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However, he did record a series of well-regarded albums in the mid-1960s. He also played a cameo role in the latter film.Д«ilk's success tapered off when British rock and roll made its big international impact beginning in 1964 and he shifted direction to the cabaret circuit. His music was also heard on the soundtracks to films such as Bitter Harvest (1963), West 11 (1963), and the musical comedy It's All Over Town (1964). Acker Bilk' and his group as musicians in prison. The second picture, Band of Thieves, was a comedy starring 'Mr. Acker Bilk' and his band were the best represented, with three songs and a speaking role for Bilk. It's Trad, Dad! (released in the United States by Columbia Pictures as Ring-a-Ding Rhythm) was a Richard Lester musical combining dixieland and rock-and-roll specialties 'Mr. At the height of his career, Bilk's public relations workers were known as the 'Bilk Marketing Board', a pun on the Milk Marketing Board.ДЄt the height of his international fame in 1962, he appeared in two theatrical motion pictures. ( Vera Lynn was the first, with 'Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart' in 1952.) 'Stranger on the Shore' sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. As a result, Bilk was the second British artist to have a single in the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

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The single was not only a big hit in the United Kingdom, where it stayed on the charts for 55 weeks, helped by Bilk being the subject of the TV show This Is Your Life, but also topped the American charts. He went on to record it as the title track of a new album in which his deep and quavering clarinet was backed by the Leon Young String Chorale. He had composed a melody, entitled 'Jenny' after his daughter, but was asked to change the title to ' Stranger on the Shore' for use in a British television series of the same name. Д«ilk was not an internationally known musician until 1962, when the experimental use of a string ensemble on one of his albums and the inclusion of a composition of his own as its keynote piece won him an audience outside the UK. In 1961 'Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band' appeared at the Royal Variety Performance. ('Summer Set' was also use prominently in Daniel Farson's controversial 1960 television documentary Living for Kicks, a portrait of British teenage life at the time). In 1960, their single 'Summer Set' (a pun on their home county), co-written by Bilk and pianist Dave Collett, reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, and began a run of 11 chart hit singles. It was from here that Bilk became part of the boom in trad jazz in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s. ДЄfter returning from Germany, Bilk became based in Plaistow, London, and his band played in London jazz clubs. During this time, Bilk and the band developed their distinctive style and appearance, complete with striped waistcoats and bowler hats. Their agent then booked them for a six-week gig in DГјsseldorf, Germany, playing in a beer bar seven hours a night, seven nights a week. Bilk disliked London, so returned west and formed his own band in Pensford called the Chew Valley Jazzmen, which was renamed the Bristol Paramount Jazz Band when they moved to London in 1951. Career Д«ilk played with friends on the Bristol jazz circuit and in 1951 moved to London to play with Ken Colyer's band. After National Service, Bilk joined his uncle's blacksmith business and qualified in the trade. Bilk later borrowed a better instrument from the army and kept it after demobilisation. The clarinet had no reed, so Britten fashioned a makeshift one for the instrument from scrap wood. Britten, gave him one bought at a bazaar and for which Britten had no use. He learned the clarinet there after his sapper friend, John A. He then undertook three years of National Service with the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone. Wills's cigarette factory in Bristol he stayed there for three years, putting tobacco in the cooling room and then pushing tobacco through a blower. On leaving school Bilk joined the workforce of W.D. He lost two front teeth in a school fight and half a finger in a sledging accident, both of which he said affected his eventual clarinet style. His parents tried to teach him the piano but, as a boy, Bilk found it restricted his love of outdoor activities, including football. He earned the nickname 'Acker' from the Somerset slang for 'friend' or 'mate'. Bilk was born in Pensford, Somerset, in 1929.