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Chuck E.'s in Love
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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Rickie Lee Jones
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| B-side = On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
| released = April 28, 1979
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| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = Rickie Lee Jones
| producer = Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman
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"'Chuck E.'s in Love'" is a song by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones. Released in 1979 on her eponymous debut album 'Rickie Lee Jones', the song became her biggest hit, reaching number 4 on the 'Billboard' U.S. Hot 100 list., April 28, 1979
"Chuck E.'s in Love" is track 1 on Side One of the 'Rickie Lee Jones' LP, on which it runs 3 minutes and 28 seconds. It is Side A on the single; the B-side is "On Saturday Afternoon in 1963".
Inspiration
Jones and her lover/fellow songwriter Tom Waits spent a lot of time hanging out with their friend Chuck E. Weiss at the seedy Tropicana Motel in Los Angeles. Eventually Weiss, affectionately referred to as "Chuck E.", disappeared. Later Weiss called the apartment where Jones and Waits lived. When Waits took the call, Weiss explained that he was in Denver, and that he had moved there because he had fallen in love with a cousin there. When Waits hung up he announced to Jones, "Chuck E.'s in love". Jones liked the sound of the sentence and wrote a song around it. Although toward the end of "Chuck E.'s in Love" the lyrics state, "Chuck E.'s in love with the little girl singing this song," the twist ending is fictional; Jones was never the girl with whom Chuck E. was in love.Gavin Richard, 'Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed' Three Rivers Press, 2006, pp. 138-139.
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