In Steve Miller's "The Joker," what is "the pompatus of love"?

[DudeAsInCool]

Ok, Beatkingers, who can answer the question? I have the answer, and will give it after the break... :)

[rainbowdemon]

In 1954 a group called the Medallions recorded a song called "The Letter" which caught Steve Allen's attention. There was no printed score available, and Vernon Green's performance of the song (which he also wrote) included a couple of words that he made up, and which were transcribed incorrectly by those who tried it. According to Green (who was 14 when he wrote the song), what was transcribed as "pompitous" or "pompatus" was actually "puppetute." This was, according to Green, "a term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children."

[DudeAsInCool]

Damn, you are Correct. Now we don't get to read any of the other loser's replies

[rainbowdemon]

That song has always made me think of an older Lincoln Continental. The kind where the back doors open the wrong way. It was white, with a black roof. There's a member here who knows exactly what I'm talking about!!

[Excrement_Cranium]

That song has always made me think of an older Lincoln Continental. The kind where the back doors open the wrong way. It was white, with a black roof. There's a member here who knows exactly what I'm talking about!!

Does Rosie like you talkin about your "member" like that online?

I mean, a regal lady like herself would only know of this backseat you speak of if she were chauffer driven.

[rainbowdemon]

I mean, a regal lady like herself would only know of this backseat you speak of if she were chauffer driven.

As she well deserves!! But the car I'm talking about was her father's car when we were in high school.

The back seat of said car is a whole different discussion. One that we won't go into here!!

[slum_goddess]

In Steve Miller's "The Joker," what is "the pompatus of love"?

i always hated that song. just sayin'.

[Umma]

Some things it's just better not to know.

[sirspamalot]

I would like to shake some peaches from the tree

[slum_goddess]

That song has always made me think of an older Lincoln Continental. The kind where the back doors open the wrong way.

my first car was a 64 Lincoln w/the assbackwards doors. my then-BF got it for 400$ years after. 3 days later it died on me and then he got me a 66 T-bird which lasted for about 10 years, well into the 80s. people were always coming up to me in gas stations and wanting to buy it. :)

[DudeAsInCool]

my first car was a 64 Lincoln w/the assbackwards doors. my then-BF got it for 400$ years after.

You had a pimp mobile?

[CTC Command]

HA! My first car was a 1964 too!

A 1964 Ford Falcon station wagon I bought for $50...

Just like this one 'cept mine was solid gray. 3 speed on the column baby!

And with NO exhaust system whatsoever, just a manifold...

[Shawn]

This here was my first car. [not the actual one pictured, but the same- even color]

1966 Plymouth Valiant

- for that matter, I still own it. It would need @ 3K to run again, but it had a certain style.

[slum_goddess]

You had a pimp mobile?

yup...it was lemon yellow (ugh) but very cool to drive around in for the brief time i had it.

[nukehella]

I think something important(right) has been overlooked.Who was Maurice,who spoke of said pompatous of love?

[sirspamalot]

I think something important(right) has been overlooked.Who was Maurice,who spoke of said pompatous of love?

didn't maurice drive his chevy to the levy?