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"The Joker" is a song by American rock band Steve Miller Band from their eighth studio album, The Joker (1973). Released as a single in October 1973, the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974 and reached the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.
He coined the term puppetutes "to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure who would be my everything and bear my children". [ 1 ] In 2019, Miller appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and explained that the word "pompatus" came from "an old doo-wop song" that included a term he misunderstood as "pompatus", and said that for years ...
The Joker is a combination live and studio album by Steve Miller Band.The album was recorded at Capitol Studios [2] and released by Capitol Records in October 1973. The album marked a period of significant change for the group as the band abandoned their psychedelic-oriented music for a more melodic, smooth rock/blues sound.
"The Joker," the band's first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking in early 1974), was a change of fortune for a group eight albums into its career. ... The title track of Steve Miller Band's ...
This super-deluxe edition curated by Steve Miller features a 3D lenticular cover, three LPs, a 60- page book with liner notes, a reproduction of a vintage Joker iron-on and a new Joker lithograph.
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 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.
The album features the title track from 1973's The Joker plus 13 tracks taken from Fly Like an Eagle (1976) and Book of Dreams (1977). As a sign of the album-oriented rock times, all but one track came from their last two albums even though they had eleven studio albums at the time.