.... "lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time.... oowhee, baby, I sure show you a good time...."
What is the "pompitous" of love? Did he just make that word up?
2007-06-02 07:31:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
"I decided to include this section due to the large number of usenet postings I have read concerning "the pompitous of love."
Steve first used this phrase in the song Enter Maurice from his 1972 album Recall the Beginning...A Journey From Eden. This is also the song marking Steve embracing the persona Maurice. The spelling of pompitous is correct according to the lyric sheet from the album, but you will never find it in a dictionary since the word is made-up anyway!!
The producers of the recent Jon Cryer release, "The Pompatus of Love" took their spelling of the word from the sheet music for The Joker as printed in the songbook "Rock Hits Through the Years" published by Warner Chappell. Many die-hard SMB fans would argue for the spelling as POMPITOUS as this is the first and only spelling in print on a Steve Miller Band release.
"The pompitous of love" originates from a line in The Medallions' 1954 R&B hit The Letter. Miller was a fan of 50's R&B, so he's very familiar with that tune.
On first hearing that particular track, it would appear that the line is:
Let me whisper sweet words of pismotality and discuss the pompitous of love
Vernon Green, the author of The Letter, says, "You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only fourteen years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches." The uneducated but imaginative youth was prone to fantasy, so he just made up the lyrics. 'Pismotality' described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved.
"And it's not pompitous," he emphasizes. "What I said was 'puppetuse', which is a term I coined to mean a secret paper doll fantasy figure."
Steve either misheard this lyric, or drew upon this song to develop his own word. Either way, 'pompitous' has made its mark in pop music history. Interestingly, Steve appears to also have drawn upon the word 'pismotality' to create the word 'epismetology' which he also used in the song Enter Maurice.
Of course, everyone knows Maurice and his speaking of "the pompitous of love" from Steve's 1973 hit The Joker. Unlike Recall the Beginning, this album did not have a lyric sheet, so one must refer to the previous album for spelling.
I read an interview with Steve where he was asked what pompitous meant. He said, "It doesn't mean anything. It's jive talk."
Steve uses this phrase once again in Conversation from his 1993 album Wide River. This song also features Steve's second use of the word epismetology in a SMB tune."
2007-06-02 07:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by Mathlady 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
decided to include this section due to the large number of usenet postings I have read concerning "the pompitous of love."
Steve first used this phrase in the song Enter Maurice from his 1972 album Recall the Beginning...A Journey From Eden. This is also the song marking Steve embracing the persona Maurice. The spelling of pompitous is correct according to the lyric sheet from the album, but you will never find it in a dictionary since the word is made-up anyway!!
The producers of the recent Jon Cryer release, "The Pompatus of Love" took their spelling of the word from the sheet music for The Joker as printed in the songbook "Rock Hits Through the Years" published by Warner Chappell. Many die-hard SMB fans would argue for the spelling as POMPITOUS as this is the first and only spelling in print on a Steve Miller Band release.
"The pompitous of love" originates from a line in The Medallions' 1954 R&B hit The Letter. Miller was a fan of 50's R&B, so he's very familiar with that tune.
On first hearing that particular track, it would appear that the line is:
Let me whisper sweet words of pismotality and discuss the pompitous of love
Vernon Green, the author of The Letter, says, "You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only fourteen years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches." The uneducated but imaginative youth was prone to fantasy, so he just made up the lyrics. 'Pismotality' described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved.
2007-06-02 07:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like he made it up, but he coined it with a source of inspiration.
From a website i found & listed below: 'I read an interview with Steve where he was asked what pompitous meant. He said, "It doesn't mean anything. It's jive talk."'
check this out....
http://www.gangster-of-love.com/pompitous.html
i thought it was interesting.
2007-06-02 07:40:43 · answer #3 · answered by purpletulips4me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah baby dovey come shake my tree...
2007-06-02 07:35:44 · answer #4 · answered by the geeko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Woah Pandora.
2016-05-19 05:05:06 · answer #5 · answered by kimberlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The keeper of the peaches is the Prophetess of Love!
2007-06-02 07:47:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently so - there is no such word in the dictionary!
Also, Steve Miller isn't ASKING "can" he shake your tree; he says he "wanna" shake your tree!!!!
2007-06-02 07:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve Miller Band......
2007-06-02 07:33:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lefty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a made up word(long story).
2007-06-02 07:58:05 · answer #9 · answered by Ms Lety 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think what he is looking for is a girl with big boobs and lots of sex! It's true
2007-06-02 07:34:48 · answer #10 · answered by Springsteen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋