«The Joker» es una canción de la Steve Miller Band, publicada en su álbum homónimo The Joker de 1973. La canción es una de dos en que la banda incluye la palabra neologismo “pompatus”. La canción alcanzó lo más alto en la lista de éxitos Billboard Hot 100 a principios de 1974.
Me encanta, junto con uno de mis temas preferidos de la Steve Miller Band: "Serenade"
Los tres primeros nombres que aparecen "Space Cowboy", "Gangsters of Love" y "Maurice" son nombres que aparecen en otras canciones suyas.
Y del tema de "Pompatus" he encontrado esto:
"Like “warm smell of colitas” from the Eagles' Hotel California, this lyric has been the source of endless fan speculation over the decades. Only around 1996 was the source of “pompatus” (“pompitous”? “pompetus”?) finally tracked down and reported by The Straight Dope:
Miller has said little about the P-word over the years. In at least one interview, fans say, he claimed “it doesn’t mean anything–it’s just jive talk.”
Not quite.
Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the “Enter Maurice” lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called “The Letter” by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R & B circles in 1954. J.K. [Fabian] found the record. It had the lines, “Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love.” J.K. tried to find the sheet music for the song, but came up only with the Box Tops hit (“My baby, she wrote me a letter”).
There the trail went cold. But wait. Enter Jon Cryer–yes, Two and a Half Men Jon Cryer:
….Cryer heard about “The Letter.” During a TV interview he said that the song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. Green, still very much alive, was dozing in front of the tube when the mention of his name caught his attention. He immediately contacted Cryer.
Green had never heard “The Joker.” Cryer says that when he played it for Green “he laughed his ass off”….
“The Letter” [was] Green’s attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were “puppetutes” and “pizmotality.” (Green wasn’t much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.)
“Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved,” Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? “A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children.” Not real PC, but look, it was 1954.""
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Me encanta, junto con uno de mis temas preferidos de la Steve Miller Band: "Serenade"
Los tres primeros nombres que aparecen "Space Cowboy", "Gangsters of Love" y "Maurice" son nombres que aparecen en otras canciones suyas.
Y del tema de "Pompatus" he encontrado esto:
"Like “warm smell of colitas” from the Eagles' Hotel California, this lyric has been the source of endless fan speculation over the decades. Only around 1996 was the source of “pompatus” (“pompitous”? “pompetus”?) finally tracked down and reported by The Straight Dope:
Miller has said little about the P-word over the years. In at least one interview, fans say, he claimed “it doesn’t mean anything–it’s just jive talk.”
Not quite.
Some sharp-eared music fan noticed the “Enter Maurice” lyric above bore a marked resemblance to some lines in a rhythm and blues tune called “The Letter” by the Medallions. The song had been a hit in R & B circles in 1954. J.K. [Fabian] found the record. It had the lines, “Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of [something like epismetology] and discuss the [something like pompatus] of love.” J.K. tried to find the sheet music for the song, but came up only with the Box Tops hit (“My baby, she wrote me a letter”).
There the trail went cold. But wait. Enter Jon Cryer–yes, Two and a Half Men Jon Cryer:
….Cryer heard about “The Letter.” During a TV interview he said that the song had been written and sung by a member of the Medallions named Vernon Green. Green, still very much alive, was dozing in front of the tube when the mention of his name caught his attention. He immediately contacted Cryer.
Green had never heard “The Joker.” Cryer says that when he played it for Green “he laughed his ass off”….
“The Letter” [was] Green’s attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained after talking with Green, were “puppetutes” and “pizmotality.” (Green wasn’t much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate.)
“Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved,” Green told Cryer. And puppetutes? “A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children.” Not real PC, but look, it was 1954.""