The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

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The Brighouse and Rastrick Band at Brighouse Central Methodist Church on June 21, 2008
The Brighouse and Rastrick Band at Brighouse Central Methodist Church on June 21, 2008
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Floral Dance
  UK 10 
silver
silver
01/28/1978 (11 weeks)
Singles
The Floral Dance
  DE 29 02/20/1978 (5 weeks)
  UK 2 
gold
gold
11/12/1977 (13 weeks)

The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band , also known as The Brighouse and Rastrick Band , is a British brass band from West Yorkshire .

Career

The history of the Brighouse and Rastrick Band dates back to 1881. With the piece The Floral Dance , recorded in 1976, the brass band succeeded at Christmas 1977 in expanding their previously only regional success. The song entered the UK charts in late November , reached 2nd place in week five, and held that position for six weeks until mid-January 1978. This makes the instrumental one of the ten best-selling singles of 1977 in Great Britain. In Germany , the song climbed to number 29 in February 1978. The album of the same name entered the English charts at the end of January and came to number 10. There were no further chart successes. The band is still active today and publishes records .

Discography

Albums

  • 1969: National Brass Band Festival, Royal Albert Hall, 1969 (with Black Dyke Mills Band , GUS (Footwear) Band, CWS (Manchester) Band and guest conductors Vilem Tausky, SH Boddington, WB Hargreaves)
  • 1970: National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain Festival Concert (with CWS (Manchester) Band, The Williams Fairey Brass Band, Fodens Brass Band and The GUS Footwear Band)
  • 1972: Granada Festival '71 (with Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band, The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, City of Coventry Band, The Ransome Hoffman Pollard Works Band, The Cory Band)
  • 1973: National Brass Festival, Royal Albert Hall, 1973 (with City Of Coventry Band, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, GUS (Footwear) Band, James Shepherd Versatile Brass, conductors: Geoffrey Brand, Eric Ball, Walter Hergreaves, directed by Dennis Wilby)
  • 1973: The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band and the Rossendale Male Voice Choir (with The Rossendale Male Voice Choir)
  • 1973: Vintage Brass
  • 1974: National Brass Festival, Royal Albert Hall, 1974 (with Black Dyke Mills Band, The Cory Band, City of Coventry Band, conductors: Sir Charles Groves , Ernest Tomlinson, soloist: Maurice Murphy)
  • 1974: Brass Accolade
  • 1975: Brighouse & Rastrick Band
  • 1976: The Lusher Side of Brighouse and Rastrick Band
  • 1976: The Floral Dance
  • 1977: Champion Brass Band
  • 1984: A Touch More Brass ( split album with The Band of the Royal Military Academy)
  • 1985: 20 hits from 20 years
  • 1990: Play 30 All Time Classic Hits (2 LPs)
  • 2001: Floral Dance & Other Requests
  • 2012: War of the Worlds - The Music of Peter Graham (Conductor: Professor David King)
  • 2013: Best of Brass, Vol. 3 (Conductor: Garry Cutt)
  • 2014: Vita Destructa

Singles

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  1. ↑ a b UK chart data
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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