Chuck E. 's in love - wikipedia Chuck E. 's in love `` Chuckie 's in Love '' redirects here. For the All Grown Up ! episode, see List of All Grown Up ! episodes. `` Chuck E. 's In Love '' Single by Rickie Lee Jones from the album Rickie Lee Jones B - side `` On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 '' Released April 28, 1979 Length 3 : 31 Label Warner Bros. Songwriter ( s ) Rickie Lee Jones Producer ( s ) Lenny Waronker, Russ Titelman Rickie Lee Jones singles chronology `` Chuck E. 's In Love '' ( 1979 ) `` Young Blood '' ( 1979 ) `` Chuck E. 's In Love '' ( 1979 ) `` Young Blood '' ( 1979 ) `` 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 from Warner Bros. Records, the song became her biggest hit, going to number 4 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 list. `` Chuck E. 's In Love '' is Track 1 on Side 1 of the Rickie Lee Jones LP, on which it runs 3 : 28 minutes long. 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 in Colorado. 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. PLP The first line of the song says, `` How come he do n't come and PLP with me down at the meter no more ? '' PLP stands for Public Leaning Post, old American slang for one person ( usually female ) leaning against another ( usually male ) in a friendly fashion. References Jump up ^ `` Chuck E. 's in Love - Rickie Lee Jones ''. Billboard., April 28 1979 Jump up ^ 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. Jump up ^ `` What does PLP stand for ? '', Abbreviations.com Rickie Lee Jones Studio albums Rickie Lee Jones ( 1979 ) Pirates ( 1981 ) The Magazine ( 1984 ) Flying Cowboys ( 1989 ) Pop Pop ( 1991 ) Traffic from Paradise ( 1993 ) Ghostyhead ( 1997 ) It 's Like This ( 2000 ) The Evening of My Best Day ( 2003 ) The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard ( 2007 ) Balm in Gilead ( 2009 ) The Devil You Know ( 2012 ) The Other Side of Desire ( 2015 ) EPs Girl at Her Volcano ( 1983 ) Live albums Naked Songs -- Live and Acoustic ( 1995 ) Live at Red Rocks ( 2001 ) Live in Stockholm ( 2010 ) Compilations Duchess of Coolsville : An Anthology ( 2005 ) Singles `` Chuck E. 's In Love '' ( 1979 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chuck_E.%27s_In_Love&oldid=800818529 '' Categories : 1979 songs 1979 singles Song recordings produced by Lenny Waronker Song recordings produced by Russ Titelman Warner Bros. Records singles Songs written by Rickie Lee Jones Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk About Wikipedia 日本 語 Edit links This page was last edited on 15 September 2017, at 21 : 31. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang the song chuck e's in love
Answer: Rickie Lee Jones