| "Smuggler's Blues" | ||||
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| Single by Glenn Frey | ||||
| from the album The Allnighter | ||||
| B-side | "New Love" | |||
| Released | March 25, 1985[1] | |||
| Genre | Rock, blues rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 3:51 (single version) 4:20 (album version) | |||
| Label | MCA Records | |||
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"Smuggler's Blues" is a song written by Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin, and performed by Frey. It was the third and final single from Frey's second studio album, The Allnighter (1984). It followed "Sexy Girl" and "The Allnighter"; of the three, it charted highest. Its music video won Frey an MTV Video Music Award in 1985.
The 16th episode of Miami Vice is named after the song, which was incorporated into the episode.[2] Frey played an airplane pilot in the episode.[3]
- ^ "FMQB" (PDF). p. 23.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (22 October 1985). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
- ^ Reiff, Corbin (19 June 2014). "30 Years Ago: Glenn Frey Releases 'The Allnighter'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Townsquare Media. Retrieved 22 September 2014.