Talk:Music Box Dancer

World Cup Theme
Most British people know this music as the BBC Theme Music for the 1978 World Cup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.139.146.180 (talk) 06:48, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

accident
I heard once from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem that the record was put into a stack of pop records to play by accident and this made it popular. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.146.40.21 (talk) 00:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Canada
In Canada in the summer of 1978, it seemed that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation played MBD a lot on news radio broadcasts (between programs - often the entire song).

Was this due to MBD being popular in Canada before it was popular in the USA? Or was MBD a CBC psuedo-signature composition? (Or did the on-air talent play it when they needed a potty-break?)

An editor with knowledge of the CBC in the mid-to-late 1970s should add a passage if appropriate.

72.82.210.167 (talk) 11:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Uses
Should there be something in the article about how it is used in pop culture and society? For example, it's a popular tune for ice cream trucks. Poldy Bloom (talk) 21:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, although it would need to be sourced. Otherwise, it becomes a list of "I heard it used in so-and-so circumstances ..." - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:19, 15 May 2010 (UTC)


 * The ice cream trucks play a rotation of a few dozen songs, and every one of them is public domain EXCEPT this one. I wish someone could explain if there was an error in copyright notice, releasing to public domain, or an error of including this inappropriately. --Will Sandberg (talk) 23:13, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

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Should be "piece" or "instrumental", or even "composition" but not "song".
Given that this is an instrumental, surely it should not be called a "song". A song is vocal, and it's not a good look for an enyclopedia to follow the ignorant habit of referring to any piece of music as a song - which it does nearly 20 times. Is it going to cause any disagreement if I change it to "piece"?

It is true voices are involved, in at least Frank Mills' original version: but they are heard only part of the time, and used, without words, literally to hold harmony, and never take the tune. I would submit that this level of vocal involvement is insufficient to justify calling the piece a song. At the least, it is dubious, if not wrong, to call it a song; but it would still be entirely correct to call it either a piece or an instrumental, or even a composition.

"Tune" is used a few times, too. It's probably not so bad, but it's not entirely accurate either, because "tune" refers to just the melody, not the composition as a whole. But I'd be inclined to change that, too, when it is clearly the composition that is being referred to.

Any thoughts on this?M.J.E. (talk) 11:08, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Genre listing should include traditional pop
Many sources (I'll have to gather them, but one is Amazon's genre categorization) list this as traditional orchestral pop. Granted, it's not quite as traditional sounding as Percy Faith, Henry Mancini, or Hugo Winterhalter but it contains many elements that would have allowed it to work in the 1950s (although in the 1950s it might have been categorized as rock and roll crossover music). But for the late 70s, it's very much traditional pop. 72.72.204.224 (talk) 14:17, 24 July 2023 (UTC)