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The King of Hollywood

from West Coast Cities by Bill White

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a tribute to and rememberance of chuck e weiss (March 18, 1945 – July 20, 2021)

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of all the pretenders to the throne
you were in a class of your own
chuck e you shall always be
the once and future hollywood king

the king of hollywood
the king of hollywood
no one will ever stand where you stood
you will always be the king of hollywood

the streets are filled with wannabees
glamorizing their own private scenes
in their little busted dreams
never know what a crowning really means

the king of hollywood
the king of hollywood
no one will ever stand where you stood
you will always be the king of hollywood

one claims to be the king of sunset strip
another keeps the peace on hollywood and gower
one interviews the starlets in the alpha beta parking lot
another never leaves his ivory tower

when chuck e moves, the world moves with him
from a broom closet at he trop
to a jukebox-playing booth in the greek pastry shop
they can rename the central tavern to the viper room
but those walls will always echo with chucks immortal tunes

the shieks if shake the goddam liars
that little flintstone man is breathing fire

as frank zappa stole his jokes from jeffrey simmons
tom waits took his voice from chuck e weiss
the streets of hollywood are thick with dipshits
like rodney bingenheimer and art fine

when chuck made number one on the charts
it was not as an artist but a title
they put his name in the wrong column
but he was too polite to sue rickie for libel

the king of hollywood
the king of hollywood
no one will ever stand where you stood
you will always be the king of hollywood

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from West Coast Cities, released November 3, 2022
written and performed by bill white

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