Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band song)
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| "Jungle Love" | ||||
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 UK 7" picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Steve Miller Band | ||||
| from the album Book of Dreams | ||||
| B-side | "Wish Upon a Star" | |||
| Released | 7 July 1977 (US)
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| Recorded | 1975–1976 | |||
| Studio | CBS (San Francisco, California)[2] | |||
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| Length | 3:07 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
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| Producer | Steve Miller | |||
| Steve Miller Band singles chronology | ||||
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"Jungle Love" is a 1977 song by the Steve Miller Band, featured on the album Book of Dreams. It was written by Lonnie Turner (longtime bass player for the Steve Miller Band)[4] and Greg Douglass (a well-known San Francisco sideman who also played with Hot Tuna and Greg Kihn, among many others).[5] It reached No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6]
According to Greg Douglass, he and Turner wrote the song for Dave Mason, who turned it down.[7] Turner gave a demo of the record to Miller, who liked it, and the Steve Miller Band (with Douglass playing guitar) recorded it in 30 minutes on the last day of recording for Book of Dreams.[8]
Cash Box called it "a hard-rocking, energetic tune" and said that "the vocal here is delivered with a shout, but carefully orchestrated instruments, especially the organ, make a clear statement of each melodic hook."[9] Record World called it an "up-beat, well-produced single-with a synthesizer opening."[10]
Greg Douglass' guitar is tuned to 'Open A' (which is, low to high, E-A-E-A-C#-E), and is performed on a 1965 Epiphone Riviera through a Quilter "Duck" amplifier.[11] It is the only guitar on the studio recording.
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