‘Heart Like a Wheel’ by Steve Miller – Classic Hit or Miss

Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues-rock band in San Francisco. The group went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker, as well as the song of the same name, in late 1973 before releasing the band's two most successful studio albums in 1976 and 1977 with Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams respectively. In 1978, the band released their biggest selling album in North America, Greatest Hits 1974–78, which has been certified 13x multi-platinum in the United States and diamond in Canada. Although the 1981 release Circle of Love was less successful than its two preceding studio albums, the popularity of 1982's Abracadabra, which included the world-wide hit single of the same name, more than made up for it. The band's studio releases became more infrequent at this point, with the biggest gap in albums being between 1993's Wide River and 2010's Bingo!.

The band's releases have been most successful in North America having two #1 albums in Canada, two #1 singles in the United States and Canada, three multi-platinum awards in the United States, and have sold over 24.5 million albums in the United States alone. The band's most successful singles have been "The Joker", which peaked in the top 10 of the trade charts of 6 countries—reaching #1 in four, and "Abracadabra", which reached the top 10 in 5 countries—reaching #1 in two countries. Of the band's albums, 12 have reached the top 40 in the United States and 7 have done the same in Canada.

This song hit #24 in 1981 - Remember this?  How about today?