"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.[2]
"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".
Jones and her lover and 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".[3] 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.[4]
P.L.P.edit
The first line of the song is, "How come he don't come and P.L.P. with me down at the meter no more?" P.L.P. stands for "public leaning post" and is old American slang for one person, usually female, leaning up against another person, usually male, in a friendly fashion.[5]
^ abcBarton, Matthew (19 March 2019). "40 Years of Rickie Lee Jones – Revisiting The Jazzy Songstress' Eponymous Debut LP". Glide Magazine. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
^"Chuck E.'s in Love - Rickie Lee Jones". Billboard., April 28, 1979
^Webb, Robert (11 February 2005). "ROCK & POP: STORY OF THE SONG - 'CHUCK E'S IN LOVE' Rickie Lee Jones (1979)". The Independent. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
^Gavin Edwards, 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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