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The Joker is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album *The Joker*. It is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the nonce word 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. Following lines refer to two other songs: Gangster of Love from Sailor and Enter Maurice from Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden. During the song, Steve Miller references The Clovers 1954 song Lovey Dovey 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 song is noted for its wolf whistle played on a slide guitar after the lovey dovey parts and the some people call me Maurice part. The line some people call me Maurice / Cause I speak of the pompatus of love was written after Miller heard the song The Letter by The Medallions. In The Letter, writer Vernon Green made up the word puppetutes, meaning a secret erotic female paper-doll fantasy figure; however, Miller misheard the word and wrote pompatus instead.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:54:48 +0000

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