Steve Miller Band~Dime A Dance Romance

[jasonpp1973]

Boz Scaggs on lead vocals!

[Charlie20301]

A forgotten gem!!!!

[skyywide]

always a favorite ----too much to say ---

[jominguex]

i hear jumping jack flash by the rolling stones

[bashofan]

GREAT track--I haven't heard it since forever and it's always been my favorite SMB song. I still remember where I was when I first heard it: at my buddy Steve's place outside Pittsburgh, just after consuming mass quantities of the Evil Weed. Winter of '69-'70, if I recall. Thanks for posting cb3961! Time to crank it up!

[jrichebay]

Loved this song and still do. Can you say "Jumping Jack Flash" and later "Stone Free" This is a great classic album.

[fieldhockeydad]

Thanks for posting the song. Great album, one of my first favs!

[earlyrogue]

I love JJ Flash too (it was 1st), but this riff and song are a little more "refined" here...listen to the 2nd half of the riff...it has an 8 note tag, where Flash has a repeated 3 note bit....and this is Steve on lead vocals here, Boz on bgv. Love this band/album as well as Children of the Future! I used to listen to them cranked on my old Lear Jet 8 track w/4 spkrs in my VW bug! Rock n' Roll baby!

[DebiMike]

I first heard this song in VietNam. It was 1969 and another GI had received a copy of the Sailor Album by mail. Everyone in the barracks loved Dime A Dance Romance. We played it over and over.... very loud! This song brought a lot of very positive memories of "The World" to us.

[ChroniclesOfSpring]

what do you mean 'rarely heard'? i listen to this every other day on my way to school. i love this record.

[UnjustParadise]

Sounds exactly like Jack flash from stones. I wonder which was first. I love the Stones.

[bendbadgersteve]

Boz made the band. Steve survived in my mind through #5 but after that he checked-out into Jokersville and formula. Their early stuff was top-notch, especially the first two albums. Loved "Roll With It" too.

Shame he got lame...

[eagle6n97]

Yeah...but, we'd still only see the potential that was there, not the real fruition of what we understood them to be.

[tonfan]

wish i could go back and see miller and scaggs in the same band.wow.

[greg0058]

Bipbop 13 is correct. Some people forget about Children of the future for some reason. Wonder why.

ls it because its a we bit Sgt, Peppers or is it because an American band went to England to record it, or just simply it had no hit singles ?

if you like early Steve Miller, Children of the future is a must . Sailor is exellent but i must be the only one that thought Children was better. Just my opinon.

[bipbop13]

Children of the Future was the bands first album, Sailor was their second album. Boz Scaggs Was on both

[richq11]

Wish someone would upload some of Children of the Future

[earlyrogue]

@bipbop13 ...I believe I heard this AND COF when they first came out...Sailor was 1st...

[mudhens4ever]

The SMB's best album was this, their first! I still have the vinyl album, purchased only because the cover looked interesting to me, an 18 year old at the time. What a lucky find for me!

[delta9779]

The memories Thanks for this song one of my favorites from 40 yrs ago wow where did life go

[Behutet93]

Life speeds up for me as the years go by. I'm 57. But you know what, Older women don't look so old and the younger ones get younger. Love it.

[bogey251]

Sounds like jumpin jack flash...

[earlyrogue]

@bogey251 ...I love JJ Flash too (it was 1st), but this riff and song are a little more "refined" here...listen to the 2nd half of the riff...it has an 8 note tag, where Flash has a repeated 3 note bit....and this is Steve on lead vocals here, Boz on bgv. Love this band/album as well as Children of the Future! I used to listen to them cranked on my old Lear Jet 8 track w/4 spkrs in my VW bug! Rock n' Roll baby!

[kakemuchie]

To see the Boz and miller Harmonize in the day , so powerful.

Truely GANGSTA!!

[oj8b709q]

sweet man

[lordritchie]

I remember seeing Boz Scaggs a couple years after he left the Miller band, and he ended his set with this tune . Everyone in the club went crazy! Classic song.

[orgasmoanman]

thanks for posting. steve first 2 albums are classic. i tell people boz was in the band and they get the fuck outta here. i knew it when i was 13 years old.

[vfgproductions]

Yep! same thing happens to me.

I was 17 a drummer in a top 40 horn band in the 70's.I was 10 years younger than the rest of the Berkley guys. I could do a pretty good Boz VOCAL imitation for some reason. I brought in Stepin Stone and got to sing it. Later I brought in" we where Always Sweethearts.

Credits said Dime Dance was the high point of the Sailor recored. Produced by Gyln Johns

[SavimbiUNITA]

Thanks fastlanephil2: that Glyn name at 1:56 is pretty cool. Thanks

[nomiclas]

hey slavicus---try saving grace or hollywood dream.anything SMB is by it's sself but yet so much of how we rock.

[slavicus]

Permanently imprinted, acid-etched and a highwater mark for the SMB!

[hplatz]

One great raver never released as a single. What were they thinking? Liked his Top 40 singles in the 70s, but the best Miller is vintage Miller. "Brave New World" is a power trio masterpiece. Check out My Dark Hour (Paul McCartney plays on it). The solo on Space Cowboy is the best of the breed. Later in his career, after the pop hits, he did a blues tinged album called Born to Be Blue, which is a joy. His roots are blue and he shows them here.

[BonzJR]

Hey,Heard it then bought it then,saw Them six times at three venues in San Francisco from 67 - -to 73 - -sorrie I missed them at the Philmore for the Kick off of this 2008 tour.Outstanding opening as well as feature act.Always a gas.Bonz

[waterburger102190]

is boz singing

[harstrib]

That's Boz,listen to Lone Me A Dime and it all fall's into place !!

[SpainishArcher]

I too bought this album from a bargain store when I was a Freshman at MU .My g/f at the time said she had heard it and liked it so I got it and we stayed up most of the night listening to it.I remember " Dime a Dance Romance " was my inital favoriite.

I saw the SMB live and they were excellent. I think they played w/ the Electric Prunes and Keith (something 98.8)I don't remember the 1st word of his hit song.

It is a totally different sound from all his other albums. Like it alot.

[aej223]

Great song and interesting comments. I was a freshman in college, and saw them live in Boston in 1969 at the Boston Tea Party. It was an amazing show. I loved that band, and I still think Steve Miller never again captured that special something that this album had.

[fastlanephil2]

Listen carefully at 1:56 and you'll hear the album's producer, Glyn Johns say his first name.

[cb3961]

COOL info flp !!!...always heard it...never knew what it was...

[cnyland1393]

@fastlanephil2 Dude that is some heavy archeology .... were you stoned to the bone or straight when you heard that.

[tarheel4423]

Laying in bed late at night with my transistor radio in Va. Tuning into a cool Boston station. Heard Dear Mary off this LP. Thought wow! Still have the record. I was 15.

[1billtube]

5th grade all over again.

love to have this album on my ipod

livin in the usa

somebody get me a cheeseburger!

[mudhens4ever]

In 1969, in my second year in college, I was in a Bargain City in Ohio (a very early version of WallMart) and saw this album. I had no idea who Steve Miller was, but the cover intrigued me. I bought it and boy did I ever strike it rich on that purchase. It's one of my top all-time albums. "DimeADance" is one of my favorites....Gangster of Love is very clever and fun to sing along to (or at least try).

[jjaniero]

unbelievable that you posted this song from like 41 years ago and one of the greatest of the era

rock on boz

[eddrousch]

Fantastic post complete with quality audio- thank you! Is there any chance you might have "Space Cowboy" from Brave New World? That'd be educational- thanks again!

[politicalkook]

better check out the first 5 lps if you want to hear miller at his peak.

[jhanlon18]

I checked it out on internet. It is Boz on lead vocal and apparently he wrote it too. Great post! One of the best this year! Thanks.

[neighborscomplaint]

Steve Miller on vocals.

[jhanlon18]

Thats a great track! Is that Boz Scaggs on lead vocal too? Never heard that track, thanks for posting!

[cb3961]

pretty sure it IS Boz on vocals too. not 100% positive on that. It's a shame great tunes like this do NOT get air time on these so called "classic rock" FM radio stations...

[juniorfats]

@jhanlon18 Saw them do this song a bunch of times at The Shrine in L. A. ,as I remember it was BOZ singing. Always my favorite Steve Miller Band song.