Take the Money and Run
Steve Miller Band
1976
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Steve Miller Band
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
The Steve Miller Band developed within San Francisco's late-1960s music scene, with early albums including Children of the Future, Sailor and Brave New World. That work combined psychedelic rock with a strong blues foundation. The later catalog emphasized concise, memorable songs such as The Joker, Take the Money and Run and Fly Like an Eagle. Miller's experience with blues musicians and interest in jazz continued to inform the band's recordings and its balance of familiar songs with deeper repertoire.
Artist background sources
Steve Miller Band - official biography
Read band repertoire/early albums, San Francisco, blues foundation, named later songs and leader's formative influences. Solo-leader Hall inductions are not attributed to band; omit time-sensitive projects and sales. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Take the Money and Run by Steve Miller Band appears at number 98 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1976. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1976 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1976 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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