Frank Mills
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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."
Early life and education
Mills was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was born in Verdun, Quebec, and started playing piano at the age of three. His family was philic, and his mother played piano, and his father played tenor. Both his parents died of cancer by the time he was 17 years old.
Mills attended McGill University for five years. He began studying engineering at McGill but then moved to the Department of Music. He entertained his Delta Upsilon comrades with songs from ragtime to Bob Dylan (a new musician at the time). Every hammer was hammered by the fraternity piano, which resulted in a unique sound.
Career
Mills became a member of The Bells in the late 1960s. He joined the band in 1971 just before it had international success with the single "Stay Awhile."
Mills performed as a pianist on CBC Television and recorded his first solo album, Seven Of My Songs, which resulted in the hit song "Love Me, Love Me Love" on CBC Television. The song made its Canadian debut on October 1971 and ranked number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, but only ranked 106 in the United States.
Mills also released "Music Box Dancer" on 1974, but it was not a success at the time. The label introduced "Music Box Dancer" on the B-side when he re-signed with executive Michael Hoppé at Polydor Records Canada in 1978. The single was sent to easy listening radio stations in Canada, but a copy was sent in error to CFRA-AM, a pop station in Ottawa. The program manager lived on the A-side but was unable to determine why it had been sent to his station, so he went to the B-side to see if the number was mistakenly posted. He loved "Music Box Dancer" and added it to his station's playlist, transforming the song into a Canadian hit. On the radio, Dave "50,000" Watts, a local radio personality, gave the record ample airplay. The album went gold in Canada, prompting Polydor in the United States to release the album and single.
News producer Bob Parker of WNGE-TV in Nashville began rehearsing the tune over the newscast's closing credits. Nashville DJs jumped ship, and both the single and album were hits. In the spring of 1979, the million-selling (Gold-certified) single debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as number 4 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, while the album debuted at number 21 on the Billboard Top Album chart and went gold. Polydor was given a gold medal by television station WNGE for breaking the single in the United States.
Mills' only Top 40 pop hit was "Music Box Dancer". The sequel, another piano instrumental, "Peter Piper," debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, but it became a top ten hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, which was a Top ten pick. Mills produced one final Adult Contemporary chart entry, "Happy Song," which peaked at number 41 at the start of 1981.
Mills received two Juno Awards in 1980 for "Peter Piper," one for Composer of the Year and another for Instrumental Artist of the Year. In 1981, he won in the second category again.
He didn't start releasing albums until the early 1990s. Rita MacNeil, a Canadian singer, went on a Christmas tour in 2010. Mills and MacNeil also toured again in November and December 2012.