Jet Airliner

...intro to "Rock 'N Me" as a tribute to the classic song by Free, "All Right Now". Book Of Dreams (#2, 1977) also included three sucesses: "Jet Airliner" (#8), "Jungle Love" (#23), and "Swingtown" (#17). 1982's Abracadabra album gave Steve...

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"Jet Airliner" is a song composed by Paul Pena and popularized by the Steve Miller Band. Pena wrote and recorded the song in 1973 for his New Train album; however, due to conflicts between Pena and his label, New Train sat unreleased...

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...band for 34 years, appearing on such hit records as 1977's "Book of Dreams," which produced such Steve Miller Band staples as "Jet Airliner" and "Jungle Love." "There are some people who pass through this world who are so unique...

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...of his career touched on Delta blues, jazz, morna , flamenco, folk and rock and roll. Pena is probably best known for writing the song "Jet Airliner ," a major 1977 hit for the Steve Miller Band and a staple of classic rock radio; and for...

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...and "Let's Move and Groove." Stylistically, the album runs the gamut from straight-up rock and roll (on the original version of "Jet Airliner") to folk to acid rock (on the Jimi Hendrix-esque "Cosmic Mirror") to Rhythm and Blues on the...

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...in the 1970s with the No. 1 songs "The Joker" and "Rock'n Me," along with fellow fan favorites "Take the Money and Run," "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Jet Airliner." Their last No. 1 hit came in 1982 with "Abracadabra." [Note: The following tour...

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...and strum on the touch screen with a special pick-shaped stylus. The game packs in 26 tracks, 21 of which (including Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner" and Daughtry's "What I Want") are exclusive to this title. Also, the key to activating...

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...it up on DVD last year. Surprised no one's mentioned that almost everyone reading this has heard at least one Paul Pena song before: "Jet Airliner," made famous by one Steve Miller... #23 posted by hassan-i-sabbah , January 24, 2008 4:56 AM

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...died Oct. 1 at his home in San Francisco. He had complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. Mr. Pena was known for writing "Jet Airliner," a Top 10 hit in 1977. He also was familiar to audiences for the 1999 Academy Award-nominated...

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...of the art form, Paul Pena. Pena, a blind San Francisco bluesman of Cape Verdean ancestry who penned the Steve Miller Band hit "Jet Airliner," discovered throat singing after hearing a shortwave radio broadcast out of Moscow in 1985. He...

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