"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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Glenn Frey singles chronology | ||||
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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]