Song · Rickie Lee Jones
“Chuck E's in Love” by Rickie Lee Jones
From the album It's Like This (2000)
“Chuck E's in Love” by Rickie Lee Jones appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2000 on the album It's Like This. Its best result is #395 on the WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,541 indie & aaa song of all time and #440 of the '70s.
"Chuck E's in Love" came out in 1979 and turned into Rickie Lee Jones's biggest hit, climbing to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The title is something somebody actually said. Jones, her lover and fellow songwriter Tom Waits, and their pal Chuck E. Weiss used to kill time at the rundown Tropicana Motel in Los Angeles, until Weiss dropped out of sight. When he finally phoned the apartment Jones and Waits shared, Waits picked up and heard he was in Denver, having moved there after falling for a cousin. Waits hung up and told Jones that Chuck E. was in love, and she liked how the phrase rang enough to build a whole song on it.
Russ Titelman produced it for Warner Bros., and the single carried "On Saturday Afternoon in 1963" on its flip side.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 441 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
| 2024 | 395 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2026 | 625 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 1059 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
Also listed as: Chuck E.'s in Love; Chuck E.'s In Love.
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