The Joker - Steve Miller Band - MP3 instrumental karaoke

"Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah / Some call me the gangster of love / Some people call me Maurice / 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love," begins Steve Miller on this meta soft-rock character sketch, referencing a cache of his own songs in the first few lines. Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" reached the summit of the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974 as well as making it into the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. The song has been recycled and remade on several occasions since its 1973 outing, first making its way into a famous Levi's ad in 1990, directed by Hugh Johnson, which plunged it back into the charts sixteeen years later, seizing the number one spot and breaking the record for the longest time in between chart-toppers. In 2005, Fatboy Slim gave the track a new lease of life and released it as a single, which made it to number 32 on the UK Singles Chart and number 29 in Ireland.