{"id":2203,"date":"2022-12-03T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:05:56","slug":"an-astonishingly-successful-and-unlikely-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"An astonishingly successful and unlikely hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\u00a0“Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band”\u00a0is a\u00a0British brass band\u00a0formed around 1881 through public donations given by the townsfolk of the adjacent villages of “Brighouse” and “Rastrick” that face each other across the\u00a0River “Calder”\u00a0in West Yorkshire, England. Today, the band still continues to be supported through public subscriptions and its own fund raising efforts. One such fundraising effort in the 1970’s was their Recording of The Floral Dance<\/a><\/em> with which they reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The instrumental recording stayed at number 2 for an astonishing 6 weeks, only prevented from reaching number 1 by “Paul McCartney and Wings” with Mull of Kintyre<\/em>, the first\u00a0UK\u00a0single\u00a0to sell more than two million copies, and third best selling UK single of all time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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