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"Music Box Dancer" is an instrumental piece by Canadian musician Frank Mills that was an international hit in the late 1970s. It features an arpeggiated piano theme in C-sharp major (enharmonic to D-flat major) designed to resemble a music box, accompanied by other instruments playing a counterpoint melody as well as a wordless chorus.
"Music Box Dancer" was Mills' only US Top 40 pop hit. The follow-up, another piano instrumental, "Peter Piper", peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 but became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [7] Mills managed one final Adult Contemporary chart entry, "Happy Song", which peaked at number 41 at the beginning of ...
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Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
From 1986 to 1989 it was awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) Since 1990 it has again been awarded as Best Pop Instrumental Performance The award was discontinued from 2011 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories.
Pop instrumentals encompass instrumentals that were hit songs. Pages in category "Pop instrumentals" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The Now Explosion was an early experiment in music video produced in Atlanta, Georgia in 1970, more than a decade before MTV was launched. The program was televised in Atlanta on WATL -TV and, later, WTCG-TV (now WPCH-TV ).
"Joy" is a 1971 instrumental pop hit record by Apollo 100. It is a contemporary rendition of a 1723 composition by Johann Sebastian Bach entitled "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", shortened to simply "Joy". It reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in January 1972 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart.