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"Space Cowboy", a song by the Steve Miller Band from the 1969 album Brave New World "The Joker", a 1973 song by the Steve Miller Band, ...
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.
Brave New World is the third studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band, released in June 1969.It is the band's first album following the departure of founding members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman, with Ben Sidran replacing Peterman on keyboards.
The song's groovy, slightly mysterious lyrics and dreamy synths (with plenty of space reserved for Miller's signature guitar) ultimately pushed it up to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for two ...
The lyrics to one of Miller’s most-played songs on FM radio—before he crossed over to AM— reflects the deeply American character of his songs much the way the Beach Boys’ songs do. “I ...
The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group had a string of mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums.
Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues rock band in San Francisco. They went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker and the song of the same name in late 1973, followed by the band's two most successful studio albums ...
"The Letter" also included another original coinage, "pismotality". Presumably in homage to the Medallions' song, Steve Miller used the nonce words "epismetology" and "pompatus" in the lyrics of two of his other songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Conversation", one of which is, like "The Letter", in spoken-word style.