Talk:Chuck E.'s in Love

Billboard chart claim

The claim that this song reached number 4 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 list is not cited and I'm having difficulty validating that claim. Lee Jones Billboards database entry on the artist does not support this claim, this song isn't even listed there. Is there another reliable source that can validate this?--RadioFan (talk) 12:11, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

According to this and this Billboard page, Chuck E.'s In Love did indeed peak at number four and stayed fifteen weeks on the chart. Asav | Talk (Member of the OTRS Volunteer Response Team) 12:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Who was Chuck E?

Transcribed from an interview with Dutch TV on http://www.npo.nl/top-2000-a-gogo/28-12-2015/VPWON_1246044

So Chuckie is a derivative of Charles. So when I met Chuckie Weiss, it was Tom Waits' best friend, and Tom Waits was my boyfriend. I overheard him say he was in love. So I just wrote what I saw: Chuckie's in love. But for me what made it fun was that I changed it to Chuck E. And I do believe there were some years that people becoming "E", like Joe E., I think that Chuck E.'s In Love had a little bit to do with that.

They used to hang around at The Troubadour [1], which was a kind of left-over club in a left-over town. I came to The Troubadour one night and I know Tom saw me and suddenly he was sitting next to me. So we got to know each other and the bar closed. And he said: "I walk you to your car". He didn't say "I'll take you home", he said "I'll walk you to your car". And that was good. And I must have been seeing something. But when we got to the car, we started dancing. And we danced, singing to each other under the street light at 2:30 in the morning. And I drove home and I'd say that's the beginning of our love-affair—to me.

Chuck, he's a good guy. When I came back from some day and I was talking to him and he say "where you landed?". I said "Burbank", he said "I'll be there". A real friend picks you up at the airport. And I think also Chuck did it to show Tom what he should be doing. When he picked me up and we were driving home I felt like I was part of them and it was a really great feeling, you know. I was very lonely. Sometimes we were three. Like, I don't know when we were three if I loved one more than the other, when we were three. That sounds like a poem.

After Chuck E.'s In Love was really big, it wasn't cool any more to be Chuck E. I think he got rid of the E. First he was Chuck Weiss, then he was Chuck E. and then he got rid of the Chuck E. And I think whatever was happening with the popularity of that song might have made him a little ruder to me. Like "you placed the yoke of this song on my life". I don't have contact with him.

[In Holland, people think this Chuck E...] Chuck E. is my boyfriend? He wasn't a boyfriend. It's a song. Remember I said I gave it a 1940's happy ending, but I don't think you should tell them. Let them think what they wanna think.