DO YOU REMEMBER? Billboard #1 HOT 100 (This Week in 1974) Steve Miller Band: The Joker The Joker is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker. The song is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the neologism pompatus. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song Space Cowboy from Millers Brave New World album. The following lines refer to two other earlier songs: Gangster of Love from Sailor and Enter Maurice from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden. During the song, Steve Miller references lines from the 1954 The Clovers song Lovey Dovey four times when he sings Youre the cutest thing that I ever did see/ Really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time; the second of these mentions is during the fade-out. The song is noted for its wolf whistle played on a slide guitar after the lovey dovey parts and the some people call me Maurrice [sic] part. Steve Miller Band Steve Miller
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