"
Stranger on the Shore" is a piece for
clarinet written by
Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named "Jenny" after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a
BBC TV drama serial for young people,
Stranger on the Shore. It was first released in 1961 in the UK, and then in the US, and reached number 1 in the US and number 2 in the UK.