‘Chuck E’s In Love’ is Rickie Lee Jones’ biggest hit. The song was included on her eponymous debut album, released in April 1979, and reached no.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. The song’s lyrics are written in the tradition of metaphorical story telling used by writers such as Joni Mitchell, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker and Tom Waits, who was Rickie Lee Jones’ lover at the time her record was released. Jones and Waits used to spend time with their friend Chuck E. Weiss at the Tropicana Motel in Los Angeles. Weiss disappeared all of sudden and sometime later called Jones and Waits at their apartment. He explained to Waits that he was in Denver and had moved there because he had fallen in love with a cousin. When Waits hung up he announced ‘Chuck E.‘s in love’, Jones liked the sound of the sentence and wrote the song. The ending is fictional because Jones was never the girl with whom Chuck was in love. The first line of the song is ‘How come he don’t come and PLP with me down at the meter no more’ – PLP is an old American colloquialism that stands for Public Leaning Post and usually refers to a female leaning against a man in a friendly fashion.

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