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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 ...
Songs by pianist Frank Mills. ... Music Box Dancer This page was last edited on 9 August 2012, at 21:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Piano player Frank Mills joined The Bells for a short period, from 1970 to 1971, after which he left to pursue a solo career, the highlight of which was the #3 1979 U.S. hit single "Music Box Dancer". Mills was replaced by piano player Dennis Will. Charlie Clark and Mike Waye also joined the band in 1970 as guitarist, bassist and vocalists.
Frank Isaac Robinson (born December 28, 1938), [2] known in his early musical career as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American jazz pianist and singer. A Detroit native, Robinson became famous as a child prodigy in the mid-1940s.
Frank Mills (born 1942) is a Canadian pianist. Frank Mills may also refer to: Frank Mills (American actor) (1891–1973), American film and television actor; Frank R. Mills (1868–1921), American stage and silent film actor; Frank Mills (baseball) (1895–1983), American baseball catcher; Frank Mills (British actor) (1927–2021), British actor
In The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk (2000), James Fuld reports that a Soviet musicologist told him that the song is not "a Russian traditional song but a cabaret song", published in 1884 and reprinted as number 131 in a songbook by A. Gutheil in 1897, where it is described as a "Gypsy romance based on the melody of ...
Music Box is a 1989 film by Costa-Gavras that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. The plot revolves around his daughter, an attorney, who defends him, and her struggle to uncover the truth. The film was written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Costa-Gavras.