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It is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the nonce word "pompatus". The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song "Space Cowboy" from Miller's Brave New World album. The following lines refer to two other songs: "Gangster of Love" from Sailor and "Enter Maurice" from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden.
Fly Like an Eagle is the ninth studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band, released on May 14, 1976, by Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan and Mercury Records in Europe.
in your ear and speak to you of the pompatus of love. Although Miller claims he invented the words "epismetology" (a metathesis of the word epistemology) and "pompatus", both are variants of words which Miller most likely heard in a song by Vernon Green called "The Letter," which was recorded by the Los Angeles doo-wop group The Medallions in 1954.
'Fly Like an Eagle' The title track of Steve Miller Band's 1976 album features Miller supplementing his buttery "do-do-do-do" vocals and funk guitar with dreamy synths via the ARP Odyssey analog ...
Over the next decade, Miller and The Steve Miller Band racked up a string of ingeniously upbeat singles like “Rock’n Me” (another No. 1 score), “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner ...
The Pompatus of Love is a 1996 American comedy film that tells the story of four guys discussing women and the meaning of the word "pompatus".This made-up word is found in two Steve Miller songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Joker", the latter of which contains the line "Some people call me Maurice / 'cause I speak of the pompatus of love".
The song is featured as a playable song in Rock Band 3. [54] In 2012, "Fly Like an Eagle" was chosen as "the best-ever song about birds" by Birds & Blooms magazine. "We're not at all surprised by the popularity of Steve Miller's 'Fly Like an Eagle' with our readers," said Birds & Blooms editor Stacy Tornio in a press
A. ^ Album credited to "The Steve Miller Band". B. ^ Born 2 B Blue is a Steve Miller solo album. D. ^ All peak positions for "The Joker", except in the United States, are from the single's 1990 reissue. E. ^ Credited to Steve Miller on the American single release. F. ^ A UK only release.