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Frank Mills (born June 27, 1942), is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer". is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A short grand piano, with the lid up. ...
Music Box Dancer is the name of a nonvocal song by Frank Mills that was popular in the late 1970s. ...
Born in Quebec, Mills began his career as a member of The Bells, a group in which he was a member from 1970 to 1972. He performed piano for the band, whose best-known hit was "Stay Awhile" (1971). After leaving The Bells in 1972, Mills began a solo career. This article is about the Canadian province. ...
The Bells were a Canadian rock band from Montreal that had two notable hit singles in the early 1970s. ...
His first solo efforts hardly made a dent in the music charts, although his 1972 single "Love Me, Love Me, Love" reached as high as #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #8 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart[1] and a cover of Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" was also successful in Canada (both songs featured Mills singing as well as playing piano). This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
Frank released an album in 1974 that featured "Music Box Dancer", but it was not a hit initially. When Frank re-signed with Polydor Records Canada in 1978, the label released a new song as a single, with "Music Box Dancer" on the B-side. The single was sent to easy listening stations in Canada, but a copy was sent in error to CFRA-AM, a pop station in Ottawa. The program director played the A-side and couldn't figure out why it had been sent to his station, so he played the B-side to see if the record was mistakenly marked. He liked "Music Box Dancer" and added it to his station's playlist, turning the record into a Canadian hit. Iconic Ottawa Valley radio personality Dave "50,000" Watts gave the record extensive airplay on the station.[2] The album went gold in Canada, which prompted Polydor in the US to release the album and single. Both the single and album were hits. The single reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart[3], while the album reached #21 on the Billboard Top Album chart [4] and also went gold.
It was Mills' only U.S. Top 40 hit; the follow-up, another similarly catchy piano instrumental titled "Peter Piper", peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart[5]. Frank managed one final Adult Contemporary chart entry, "Happy Song", which peaked at #41 at the beginning of 1981[6].
Mills won two Juno Awards in 1980 for "Peter Piper", one for Composer of the Year and one for Instrumental Artist of the Year. He again won in the latter category in 1981. The Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands; they could be considered the transnational counterpart to the United States Grammy Awards. ...
The Juno Awards of 1980, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 2 April 1980 in Toronto at a ceremony hosted by Burton Cummings at the Harbour Castle Hilton. ...
// Winnners Best Songwriter (1971 - 1974) 1971 - Gene MacLellan (Special Award Canadian Composer) 1972 - Rich Dodson 1973 - Gordon Lightfoot 1974 - Murray McLauchlan Composer of the Year (1975 - 1990) 1975 - Paul Anka 1976 - Hagood Hardy, The Homecoming 1977 - Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald 1978 - Dan Hill (Co-composer), Sometimes When...
// Winnners Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year (1976 - 1987) 1976 - Hagood Hardy 1977 - Hagood Hardy 1978 - Andre Gagnon 1979 - Liona Boyd 1980 - Frank Mills 1981 - Frank Mills 1982 - Liona Boyd 1983 - Liona Boyd 1984 - Liona Boyd 1985 - Canadian Brass 1986 - David Foster 1987 - David Foster Instrumental Artist(s) of the...
The Juno Awards of 1981, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 5 February 1981 in Toronto at a ceremony hosted by Andrea Martin at the OKeefe Centre. ...
He continued to release albums until the early 1990s, but has now retired from the music business.
Sheet music
Music Box Dancer The sheet music version of "Music Box Dancer" has sold in excess of 3 million copies. It is published by Music Box Dancer Publications which is a subsidiary of Mayfair Montgomery Publishing. Mayfair Montgomery Publishing (Mayfair Music) is a North American classical music publishing firm. ...
Other - Somewhere a Child Is Sleeping: A Christmas Song (SATB with Piano)
This article is about choirs, musical ensembles containing singers. ...
Film and television appearances "Music Box Dancer" has been heard on an episode of The Simpsons and in the Kill Bill movies. Simpsons redirects here. ...
Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino. ...
There is a music track in the soundtrack for the movie Hair (movie) called Frank Mills, although the number is not in the actual movie. Hair is a 1979 film based on the musical of the same name. ...
References - ^ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002; Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary 1961-1993]
- ^ [American Top 40 with Casey Kasem, March 10, 1979]
- ^ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002; Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary 1961-1993]
- ^ [The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Albums, 3rd ed.]
- ^ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002; Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary 1961-1993]
- ^ [Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary 1961-1993]
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