“Chuck E’s in Love” (Rickie Lee Jones)
Today’s classic song of the day is the iconoclastic “Chuck E’s in Love,” the first hit from equally iconoclastic performer Rickie Lee Jones. It was released in April of 1979, rose all the way to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and almost overnight catapulted then-newcomer Ms. Jones to unlikely pop music stardom. . There was nothing on the radio…