The Joker (Steve Miller Band song)

"The Joker"
Cover of the 1973 single
Single by Steve Miller Band
from the album The Joker
B-side	"'see track listings'"
Released	October 1973
Format	7" Single, 12" single, Cassette single (Original Releases), CD single and Digital download (Post Releases).
Genre	Rock, blues rock, southern rock
Length	4:26 (Album version); 3:35 (7" version/Radio edit) and 6:20 (Extended version)
Label	Capitol Records; EMI-Odeon; London Records, Parlophone Records, EMI Bovema, Odeon Records.
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Curtis, Ahmet Ertegün, Steve Miller
Producer(s)	Steve Miller
Steve Miller Band singles chronology
"Fandango" (1972) "The Joker" (1973) "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" (1974)
"Fandango" (1972) "The Joker" (1973) "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" (1974)
"Take the Money and Run"/"The Joker" (1983, double A-side, live)
Cover of the 1983 live single
Steve Miller Band singles chronology
"Living in the U.S.A." (live) (1983) String Module Error: Match not found1983 "Take the Money and Run" (live)/"The Joker" (live) (1983) String Module Error: Match not found1983 "Shangri-La" (1984) Shangri-La1984
"The Joker" (1990, reissue)
Cover of the 1990 reissue
Steve Miller Band singles chronology
"Ya Ya" (1988) Ya Ya1988 "The Joker" (1990) The Joker1990 Wide River (1993) String Module Error: Match not found1993

"The Joker"
Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album Palookaville
Released	February 28, 2005 (2005-02-28)
Recorded	2004
Genre	Big beat
Label	Astralwerks, Skint
Songwriter(s)	Eddie Curtis, Ahmet Ertegün, Steve Miller
Producer(s)	Fatboy Slim, Simon Thornton
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
"Wonderful Night" (2004) "The Joker" (2005) "Don't Let the Man Get You Down" (2005)
"Wonderful Night" (2004) "The Joker" (2005) "Don't Let the Man Get You Down" (2005)
Alternative cover
Remix single

"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 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, the New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart, the Dutch Nationale Top 100 and the Dutch Top 40.

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.

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.