Music Box Dancer - a famous song

The "Music Box Dancer" was a hugely successful non-vocal hit song that took the musical world by storm in the late 1970s and, consisted mainly of a piano theme accompanied by other instruments.

This hit was given to the world by Frank Mills, who wrote as well as recorded it in 1974 and in 1978 it became a single that in the Christmas of that year, entered the top ten of several pop music charts in Europe and also in Asia.

Different Versions Have Been Recorded

It even enjoyed considerable great popularity in American country in 1978, reaching the number 3 spot on the Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 in April of the some time after year. The "Music Box Dancer" has been copied and, many different versions of this song have been made and, famous pianists like Floyd Cramer, Roger Williams and also Eric Robertson and, several other orchestral artists prefer James Last and 101 Strings have manufactured their own version of this fashionable song.

It has been set to calypso tune and also an accordion version of it has been manufactured in Sweden and, has even been sung in Japanese - such is its high popularity. In fact, "Music Box Dancer" is thought to have been one of the greatest instrumental pop music hits of the mid and late 20th century and, at a time when instrumental songs were not becoming hit songs, with disco music growing in great popularity, the "Music Box Dancer" was a standout exception of its time.

The man behind this excellent non-vocal song was Frank Mills, who had played piano for many different musical groups while at high school and, later gave up medicine to pursue music as a career. He was a part of the pop group known as The Bells and received many amount of fame when they recorded a winning song called Stay Awhile. He went solo and recorded a pop vocal called Love Me, Love Me, Love that was to reach numerous numbers in any countries, but in 1974 he had left The Bells to go solo.

It was during those days in 1974 that the "Music Box Dancer" was recorded and, it took a different four years before it became a hit, shooting up the charts in Europe and also in Asia. Frank Mills has since obtained numerous platinum and also gold albums from many different countries and, even obtained a Grammy nomination. This immensely talented musician has won more than one awards and, as well came on more than one television shows in Canada, USA, Japan and Europe.