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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. More than 16 years later, in September 1990, it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats - The Steve Miller Band - The Joker )〕 after being used in "Great Deal", a Hugh Johnson-directed television advertisement for Levi's, thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart-toppers. This reissue of "The Joker" also topped the Irish Singles Chart,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=irishcharts.ie search results )〕 the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=charts.org.nz - Steve Miller Band - The Joker )〕 the Dutch Nationale Top 100〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=dutchcharts.nl - Steve Miller Band - The Joker )〕 and the Dutch Top 40.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nederlandse Top 40 - Week 44, 1990 )〕 The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song "Space Cowboy" from Miller's ''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''. ==Inspiration and writing== During the song, Steve Miller references The Clovers' 1954 song "Lovey Dovey" when he sings "You're 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;〔('In Steve Miller's "The Joker," what is "the pompatus of love"?' )〕 however, Miller misheard the word and wrote ''pompatus'' instead. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Joker (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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