{"id":284,"date":"2025-12-10T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:58:48","slug":"frank-mills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/frank-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: This Is Frank Mills\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0Ni2qt?si=c67AirziT5WqOc8rVSkzvw&#038;utm_source=oembed\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist and recording artist best known for his solo instrumental hit \u2018Music Box Dancer\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills pursued a solo career after leaving The Bells in 1972; the same year that the single \u2018Love Me, Love Me, Love\u2019 reached number 46 in the Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Mills\u2019 best-loved album, \u2018Music Box Dancer\u2019, went gold in Canada, it prompted Polydor US to release it alongside its eponymous single. Both were hits, with the single reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album&nbsp;going gold. Mills would follow this success with several more chart hits and two Juno Awards in 1980 for his piano instrumental Peter Piper: one for Composer of the Year and one for Instrumental Artist of the Year. He would go on to win the latter award again in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From classic Christmas numbers to tracks like \u2018Rondo in America\u2019, \u2018Anticipation\u2019 and \u2018Spanish Coffee\u2019, Mills\u2019 work is a treasure trove of piano instrumentals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankmills.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frank Mills Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist and recording artist best known for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valentinemusic.co.uk\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}