# "Chuck E's In Love" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-es-in-love/468300 "2008-10-17T01:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-es-in-love/468300/21 "2008-10-19T06:14:17Z")
I asked Rickie Lee’s backup singer Amy Barlow in '79, and I don’t think she know what “P.L.P.” meant either. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-es-in-love/468300/22 "2008-10-19T17:31:24Z")
Brit here - I grew up in the 70s knowing PLP was a “public leaning post”. Dad would claim he wasn’t one - but I can’t say if it was a British thing or something my folks picked up when they spent a year or so in LA in the late sixties. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-es-in-love/468300/23 "2008-10-20T10:49:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > [http://content.perspicuity.com/?q=node/186](http://content.perspicuity.com/?q=node/186) > [@](#): > > “Chuck E.’s in Love” is a song by Ricky Lee Jones. > > After careful analysis of the lyrics, I have concluded that this is a love song about the American architect and designer, Charles Eames (1907-78), as told by his wife, Ray. I had always assumed that Chuck E. was none other than Chuck E Weis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chuck-es-in-love/468300.md?page=1)