JENNY
Created on 18/11/2024Latest update on 18/11/2024
Artist: Acker Bilk
Author: Acker Bilk
Label: Pye
Year: 1961
Written for his little daughter. The tune was then arranged by Leon Young for use in British TV series Stranger On The Shore and that's how it got released then and became his biggest hit. As Jenny released in '74 as B-side of When I See You Smile Again.
Covers:
- 1961:
Acker Bilk [with the Leon Young String Chorale as Stranger On The Shore; n°2 UK, n°1 US]
- 1962:
Booker T. & The MG's [idem; on debut album Green Onions]
- 1962:
Andy Williams [idem; vocal version with Robert Mellin lyrics; top 30 UK]
- 1965:
Duke Ellington [idem]
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- BUONA SERA
- 1961
- MOPS UND MÖPSCHEN
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- PERDIDO STREET BLUES
- 1961
- JENNY
- 1962
- GEE BABY, AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU
- 1962
- SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
- 1962
- SHENANDOAH (ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI)
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- CLAIR DE LUNE A MAUBEUGE, UN
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- 1983
- JEEPERS CREEPERS
- 1983
- WATERMELON MAN
- 1993
- THAT DA-DA STRAIN
- 1996
- YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE
- 1998
- TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL
