"168000.0"^^ . "Stranger On The Shore" . "1961 songs" . . "Singles certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America" . "1961 singles" . "Songs from films" . "Acker Bilk" . "Atco Records singles" . "-0.395207"^^ . "english" . "Instrumentals" . "2"^^ . "Columbia Records" . "Television theme songs" . . "%22Stranger on the Shore%22 is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named %22Jenny%22 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.In May 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 took %22Stranger on the Shore%22 on their mission to the moon. Gene Cernan, a member of the crew, included the tune on a cassette tape used in the command module of the Apollo spacecraft." . "Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles" . . "1962 singles" . "Andy Williams songs" . . "f559bdd2-9379-4fce-9015-1bb379dc7929" . "false"^^ . . "293653"^^ . "The Drifters songs" . "Stranger On The Shore" . "Robert Mellin" . "false"^^ . "516" . . "Atco Records" . "Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles" . "Ruby & the Romantics songs" . "5"^^ . . "5714dec525ac0d8aee396e99" . "80.0"^^ . "DEPZ69371960" . "Columbia Graphophone Company singles" . . . "false"^^ . "Songs written by Robert Mellin" . "61042694" . "2012-09-20"^^ . . . "-0.596241"^^ .