Stranger on the Shore (Help)

[oilywrag]

Hi all,do any of you know the chords to "Stranger on the Shore" Aker Bilk.

Cheers Tom

[newsense]

There is a version at Stranger On The Shore Chords by Andy Williams @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com, but I've no idea how true it is to the Bilko version.

[billkath]

Originally Posted by newsense

There is a version at Stranger On The Shore Chords by Andy Williams @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com, but I've no idea how true it is to the Bilko version.

The chords on that web site are exactly the same chords as on the official Acker Bilk sheet music for the song that I own.

[mangotango]

Oh good, that's a help. If there's one thing you can guarantee at gig in venues for ..... a more mature audience (Mango loses job in the Diplomatic Corps), you know that you will be asked for Girl From Ipanema, possibly Take 5 and almost certainly Stranger On The B***** Shore.

If there were anything that put me off jazz in my formative years, it was people like Utter Bilge and Kenny Ball; also Cleo Laine, who put me off scatting for life (unless it's Ella). Actually I prefer Dame Cleo now so either she's changed or I have, probably both. Still can't bear scatting, though.

[billkath]

I'd be looking at those written chords as your template for practicing your substitutions, if I were you. As it's such a slow tempo song, it seems to me that you could easily do 1 chord per beat, substituting in nice chords that make your job more interesting. Does the person who's doing the lead play it fairly close to Acker's version, like mine does? If so, it leaves you loads of room for making up nice progressions, whilst still anchoring down the backing they'd expect.

[Tom Karol]

At the Senior Living Facilities, we do it as a medley paired with, "Wonderland By Night!" (Bert Kaemphert, also from 1961)! My duo partner plays lead on soprano sax while I try to pretend to be Leo Kotke.