Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E's in Love (Solo Acoustic) (BBC TV 1994)

Rickie Lee Jones introduces and sings an acoustic version of 'Chuck E's in Love' for the BBC TV series 'Words and Music' in 1994.
(VHS transfer)

[@loosescrews7055]

I am speechless. She took my breath away.

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

I fall for her, all over again, every time she sings this song. I'm not sure if its right or wrong... guess its just the magic in the song.

[@misterdonwaters]

Love that woman!

[@setoile888]

there's a pure TALENT here and it's so rare.

[@ferreestudios]

One of the best songs ever written!!!

[@handlerbear]

Thank You RLJ, I found you at 3am during Covid. Trapped at home 6 months now and have lost track of day and night. This comforts my soul. Sincerity, humbleness and such a disposition.

[@irie1tes]

I miss this 2-3rd wave quarantine. The long one.

[@57Pinky_Promise65]

Still pulls my heart strings and brought me back to 1979. Thanks for postings this.💕

[@willtwain1383]

Perfect song, sung perfectly. Thanks, Rickie. Styling.

[@mrguillemot]

Still gives me same chills as it did back in 78...and brings to mind the girl I had to love from a distance. It is so great to hear a singer that is better live than on recording...a rare talent, esp today.

[@stevenkukene9970]

Fell in love with Rikki all over again. Nobody like this American original. ❤️

[@Andrew_John_]

Miss the beret - but wow! Still amazing after all these years

[@miporsche]

another 15 year old in texas in love with RLJ in 1979-- now I'm 55 and still love her (music)

[@Pedroism]

Same here, 13 yrs old

[@TheEmilySharp]

Me too. I started singing with her and sang some her songs in Italy while performing most of my life😍

[@richarddean7364]

A truly unique artist. Particularly her first three albums Rickie Lee Jones, Pirates and Magazine, I still play to this day, from beginning to end, one after the other. Not a bad track on any of them. Truly beautiful and unique artist.

[@ozyguy1]

This entire album is superb. Have a listen to Last Chance Texaco or Saturday Afternoons in 1963 or Danny's All-Star Joint... Brilliant. I bought this cassette tape as a teenager and was so impressed how every song spoke to me. Years later I also bought the CD and still have it.

[@simonruddle5537]

Just wow. Such a class act. Loved her music since 1979 and still do.

[@CHS1957]

Hard to get the song out of your head as the song and music never grows old, Ricki Lee Jones, you rock..

[@youarerightboss]

Rickie Lee Jones, you still got it. Better than ever. Just like good wine, finer with time.

[@Dominion-1]

I luv hearing the back story on songs. I also luv how artist can take something that happens everyday in life and write a story and then turn the story into a song. Everyone has a story, waiting to be told.

[@TheLegenDacster]

Absolutely sublime. Brilliant guitar and stellar vocals. WOW.

[@wernerrohr7259]

Damn, this is amazing. I watched her live on stage twice, but this on is really very intensive

[@olejorgensen1964]

This is just so good - Yes a late comment - but i did buy the vinyl when it was released :-)

[@jmac780100]

Wow! This is my favorite video.

[@NekroGGRE]

She has the most amazing way of riding beats differently than most people. On Both the Original song and this Version. It's so not typical and stands out and sounds amazing

[@tonylangley2610]

You are so awesome RLJ, thank you for entertaining me with your great talents, love this video

[@mijomcgyver6270]

Still awesome after all these years. How she never became a superstar I'll never know...

[@superfrickingdumb8389]

mijo mcgyver s

[@theresaamick5172]

@@deborahaviles708 sounds like Linda Perry yet Linda has kept on keeping on. Yet ricki lee Jones is so talented, smoooove to listen to.... Just great. I wish she did so much more because her music, voice, beat, style ... Her whole package is so unique and aesthetically pleasing to experience.

[@SOSEnergie1966]

For me she always was a superstar!

[@ozyguy1]

@@deborahaviles708 One hit? She had many more than that, and this entire album is superb. Have a listen to Last Chance Texaco or Saturday Afternoons in 1963 or Danny's All-Star Joint... Brilliant. I bought this cassette tape as a teenager and was so impressed how every song spoke to me. Years later I also bought the CD and still have it.

[@tonyv8247]

Rickie was sent down from above An angel exploring the human world and emotion. Love her

[@robertjackson3819]

Amazing and lovely. She always was.

[@utubelvrNYC]

Those two chords built a whole career! I LOVE this artist ❤️

[@castelfrancoG]

My favourite song of all time just got better. Thank you KZbin

[@zephyrrich3055]

I loved this song back then and still love this song now. Thank you Ms RLJ

[@dougfredricks2017]

As a teen in the 70s loving AM 📻 radio I say Today's music is Goat 🐐 tripe😂

[@danielvanness6936]

Absolutely Great!

[@ronniebaker4549]

Rickie is always adorable. We all had a crush on her or she had the girls thinking about their crush. If we could go back to 1979 and get to love the people we were so fortunately to love through the years.

[@MariaFernandez-yx7eg]

Beautiful song, beautiful voice, beautiful girl! I could watch her all day

[@SteveEcksteinDouglasDrive]

marvelously talented. needs more views & world recognition.MY FEET & HEART KEEP ON TAPPING TO HER STRUM BEATS. MY BRAIN IS LIFTED BY HER WORDS, OPENING "POSSIBILITIES" OF LIFE(I AM A WRITER/PLAYER TOO).

[@walluvalkama3927]

That voice. Pure love.

[@gordonpearson7494]

just one of the of the most gorgeous songs you will ever hear

[@loveconquersall143]

Omg. Wow. There isn't enough words 🤩

[@Shaunxp]

Its weird she did'nt acknowledge that Chuck E. Weiss was one of her best friends, regardless its such a fantastic song!

[@youarerightboss]

Ricki Lee Jones, you still hotter than the blazing sun.

[@arvstephenson1107]

This is how good a live performance should be.

[@larryrubin5150]

Mike Bailey great comment

[@RichInk]

That voice. She still had it: Wonderful wonderful.

[@OnPointDogs]

Masterpiece.

[@carolelerman9686]

Rickie and Joanie are the BEST !

[@youarerightboss]

Perfection personified.

[@rickyrobertson8064]

RLJ is one talent that CAME OUT when it was HER TIME. She was IT at the time of THE PARAMETER that she was destined. A lot of talents miss the window, but still have success, just not as much as they could have if they had waited, or hurried up. In ways life is the same.

[@TheDominos1]

In a magical time when wizards walked the electric hi ways of our radios I attended a small venue in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio featuring Ricky and Old Tom Waits. Amazing

[@quithollerin7276]

That right there surely has to be a genuine work of art. I could listen to her all day.

[@gaiabeleza]

She’s my Top 3 of all time. Along with Joni and Shawn Colvin. ❤🎉

[@ShaunFrere1]

Rickie Lee Jones is truly wonderful. Love her and love her music.

[@thefleaflop]

Awesome version..... Love it.

[@cmanone1]

Just an awesome tune! I had that album it was great!

[@Wordsmyth8]

cmanone1 It was!

[@Bigballs72]

her voice is stunning even just talking..

[@thefleaflop]

Never heard this version..... Just love it!!!

[@kierin4810]

One off the best singer female arst in her time and now.thank you Ricky 🌹

[@youkyouk7471]

Ô Thank you ! This is absolutely divine 🙏❤️🙏

[@youarerightboss]

That voice! Melts my heart.

[@ordinarychap1085]

Voice still clear as a bell - has not aged even a half note! Great vocalist. Great song writer. Whoever gave her that hair cut though, need their finger nails pulled...

[@michellerjackson5776]

She's still ADORABLE 👏👏👏🦋🥰

[@elizabethreed5648]

Ikr? But still cute. But gee wow, yeah, the haircut. .?

[@tapiripirikahu4422]

Wow she still got it !

[@jaime9130]

Sometimes you find hidden gems in You Tube, the Duchess of Cool..

[@vestanpance7354]

Her voice makes my heart swell. Always has.....

[@atomicpunk520]

Thank god for RLJ & all the peeps who wrote the songs that are apart of my life from a whipper-snapper to an elder!!

[@mtaur100]

Wonderful guitar playing.

[@evaadams8298]

What a talent! ❤️❤️❤️

[@aliceonaka2550]

Rickie Lee Jones, guitar, and nothing else. Perfect.

[@SLB4523]

Simply gorgeous❤️

[@justinzarling4776]

soundtrack of my childhood. so glad I was born in 69. got absorb great music before it died.

[@eddiewillers1442]

I was born in 1952. I got it all! (imagine walking to the record store because a new Beatles album was coming out and not knowing what the hell you were going to get!)

[@theresaamick5172]

I just have to add... I was born in 1970 yet about 6 years ago reopened my mind and stopped relying on familiarity. I found enlightenment because there is fantastic music being made in every main genre and now all these new categories and subgenres. I only wish I had infinite lifetimes to go back to listen to all I've heard before, trip the light back to so many decades past that I ignored and to revel in all the fantastical new. :-) it's taken me 49 years to stop being a music snob and to open my mind - and it's great!

[@theresaamick5172]

OMT to you both born in 69 and 52... The change from LPs to even 45s, then cassette singles...then mp3s really has changed everything. We used to buy albums but that in large part has morphed to a la carte picks... We used to put the record, 8 track or 78rpm on and didn't stop with one song. For me, in general, the one song I'd buy a album/CD for quickly or over time became my least favorite. I had a CD for 5 years that I'd play in a 5 disc changer and I'd program only the one song. Then one day I screwed up the numbers and discovered one of my favorite musicians of my life. It's just rare these days for ... I think ... most ppl to ever listen to discographies and hidden in them are some of the greatest songs... B-sides if you will.

[@josephmayfield2556]

Greatness!! Love it 😍

[@janaskibo871]

I love you RLJ. So amazing 😍😁

[@elwrongo]

what a voice, what a song

[@chuck1prillaman]

Such a beautiful speaking voice. "Little Fluffy Clouds" really shows her voice off and she played a PERFECT southern 1960s mom in a gay themed movie called "Dream Boy". My favorite recording of her's is a cover of Jefferson Airplane's "Commin' Back to Me" It will break your heart.

[@theresaamick5172]

I'm going to check it right now. Thank you for the suggestion as I've always craved more. ✌❤

[@theresaamick5172]

Coming Back to Me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKS7p5p_jK2Vi5Y I wasn't expecting to get chills then cry... The creator of the video did a fantastic job.

[@BossDM-2]

She's so good. What about other material?

[@stokesge]

Pure talent/ art

[@shanedaniels177]

Wow! Priceless Rickie :)

[@anotheryoutubesupergenius5535]

i saw her live at the rainbow music hall in the denver suburb might have been aurora? anyway she was really great and really high, i think, too, as we all were in the late 60's early 70's culture. it was maybe more like early 80's when she made it to Colorado she was still playing that song as it was a big hit.

[@mrnobodyz]

☝🏼Slower more emotional and soulful lovely... sniff!!!❤️

[@stevebowerman4721]

I adore her!

[@elicastelli9728]

what a voice - special!

[@bbrotherton6345]

National music treasure! Today, I asked a teen working at Starbucks if she knew who Stevie Wonder was. No! I asked if she had heard Chuck E's in love! Bingo! Wow!

[@kojiwatanabe7422]

高校時代ある秋の夜、家を飛び出して満天の星を眺めながら彼女の歌を聴いていた。

[@ellennoone8313]

I miss the beret.

[@bamboosa]

Chuck E. Weiss and the Goddamn Liars performed at the Central (now Viper Room) every Monday night for a buck, no drink minimum, for a couple of years in the eighties. The Liars were composed of some of the best R'n'B players in L.A. When his guitar player (a local superstar) went on tour (Exene and John?) with another band I asked Chuck E. if he would allow me to fill in. He politely declined. And yes I had a crush on Rickie. I'll never be hip boohoo.

[@arbiewolfe3027]

At the Central for 11 years !

[@dennismason3740]

@@arbiewolfe3027 - No effin' way! If it was the mid eighties you saw me dance on Monday nights. Noice.

[@arbiewolfe3027]

@dennismason3740 > Chuck E was there most every Monday night for 11 years....absolutely was!

[@dennismason3740]

@@arbiewolfe3027 - Incredible, probably the longest running house band on Earth, ever, if you don't count the Casablanca Cafe in Morocco. I came to the Liars about 1982 and saw them literally for a few years, I had no idea that they had been around for so doggone long! Thank you.

[@lordvonmanor6915]

Lyricism is the altimate form of poetry because its workers' mental freedom while they slave together.

[@luisquintana2248]

0:43 "She thought it was a great song". Understatement if ever.

[@James-wy2pq]

Great song takes me back to a good time we had a kid in my neighborhood just moved in trouble maker his name was Chuckie the whole neighborhood beat him up one day lol

[@jeffreyjumisko5165]

love it!

[@briteness]

Chuck E. Weiss knew everybody back then, then the whole world knew his name!

[@louissmith4218]

I love it

[@corinafrancishincal9979]

Your song still alive 2023 ❤

[@astridpaymal1243]

Je t'aime Ricky Lee Jones.Une grande dame🎵🎶😇

[@Novaheart1998]

She tells another story where this song was written about charles, tom waites best friend who she knew both well at the time,? Whats the truth?

[@avlisk]

The pizza place and the song are from the same year. Coincidence?

[@PInk77W1]

I ❤️ Rickie Lee Jones

[@lancemaruariki1774]

so different but voice remains heaven.

[@ChrisJones-uo2fq]

Sixty one thousand views, LOL, most of them mine...

[@marcscipanov9806]

Trésor appart de la musique mondiale ❤❤❤

[@georgevangordonjr8963]

I really liked that song.

[@alhollywood6486]

Wait, what? This is what year? Unbelievable!

[@cantabile2829]

Wonderful Rickie ! Does anybody knows what are the Pantages ?

[@haroldkloran4323]

I think it's the name of the club

[@bobpugh6364]

It's the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

[@rolo1955]

Remember hearing it back when it charted. So long ago, she has aged well though sounds the same!

[@MariaFernandez-yx7eg]

Well this is from 26 years ago...

[@jameshall1648]

Great!! One of my favorites 😍