Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band song)

"Jungle Love"
UK 7" picture sleeve
Single by Steve Miller Band
from the album Book of Dreams
B-side"Wish Upon a Star"
Released7 July 1977 (US)
  • 2 September 1977 (UK)
Recorded1975–1976
StudioCBS (San Francisco, California)
Genre
Length3:07
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
  • Lonnie Turner
  • Greg Douglass
Producer(s)Steve Miller
Steve Miller Band singles chronology
"Jet Airliner"
(1977)
"Jungle Love"
(1977)
"Swingtown"
(1977)

"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) and Greg Douglass (a well-known San Francisco sideman who also played with Hot Tuna and Greg Kihn, among many others). It reached No.23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

According to Greg Douglass, he and Turner wrote the song for Dave Mason. 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.

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." Record World called it an "up-beat, well-produced single-with a synthesizer opening."