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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.
Frank Mills. Born. ( 1942-06-27) 27 June 1942 (age 82) Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Instrument. Piano. Frank Mills (born June 27, 1942) is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer".
A music box ( American English) or musical box ( British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott , produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932.
"Doll on a Music Box" is a song originally from the 1968 musical film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was subsequently performed in the 2002/2005 stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as well. It is both a musical and lyrical counterpoint to the more free flowing, legato song, "Truly Scrumptious". In the song, Truly is disguised as a wind up music ...
Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino emerged as a primarily acoustic pop artist with his debut albums Baka no Uta (2010) and Episode (2011). [1] Hoshino's parents were both fans of jazz (his father was a jazz piano hobbyist and his mother at one point aimed to be a jazz vocalist) and he would become known for his love of Michael Jackson.
Video Music Box. Video Music Box is an American music television program. The series is the first to feature hip hop videos primarily, [3] [4] and was created in 1983 by Ralph McDaniels and Lionel C. Martin, who also serve as the series' hosts. [1] It aired on the New York City -owned public television station WNYC-TV (now WPXN-TV) from 1984 to ...
Squeezebox. Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century). The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows -driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied because such ...