Steve Miller Band – The Joker
About The Song
“The Joker” is a song by American rock band Steve Miller Band from their eighth studio album, The Joker (1973). Released as a single in October 1973, the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974 and reached the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Miller borrowed from the hit song “Lovey Dovey”, which shares the lyric, “You’re the cutest thing that I ever did see / I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time”. Ahmet Ertegun wrote the song, and the Clovers had the highest charting version in 1954.
More than 16 years later, in September 1990, “The Joker” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks after being used in “Great Deal”, a television advertisement for clothing company Levi’s, and caused controversy for keeping Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is in the Heart” off the number-one spot. This reissue of “The Joker” also topped the Irish Singles Chart, the New Zealand Singles Chart, the Dutch Nationale Top 100, and the Dutch Top 40.