Chuck Lucky and The Gentlemen of Leisure
Hilariously rockin'& Swingin' tunes from America's favorite computer animated lounge band! Featured on the Dr. Demento show!
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Dead Elephant Dance Dead Elephant Dance
This song was a hit on Demento, regularly making it into the funny 5. Also featured on Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes #10.
Screwin' Up At Work Screwin' Up At Work
A cool-funky track about Chuck's trevails in the working world. Real cool beat and horn arrangement!
The Man With Massive Toenails The Man With Massive Toenails
The story of a pathetic fellow with an unusual malady. Recorded live and off-the-cuff in the studio!
I Would Swim Thru Hazardous Waste I Would Swim Thru Hazardous Waste
This all-acapella song about a hot babe Chuck tried to hit on.
99 Cent Buffet 99 Cent Buffet
A rockin' swingin' ode to the joys of scarfin' for a buck. Features Lawrence Welk lead trumpeter Johnny Zell ! You'll love it!
Announcing the arrival of what is likely the world's first computer animated lounge act! "Chuck Lucky and the Gentlemen of Leisure" are a group of loveable, middle-aged losers who love music, gambling, Vegas, booze and stuffing themselves silly at cheap buffets. Fronted by the affable Chuck Lucky, the group performs hilarious tunes in many classic American musical genres including swing, funk and rock--all with a generous dose of LOUNGE thrown in. Except for the fact that they're computer animated fictional characters, Chuck and the fellahs are no different from any other band trying to make it in the music businessBand/artist history
Charles Wilfred Fleboister (a/k/a Chuck Lucky) was born in 1942 in a dumpy trailer park on the outskirts of Merced, California. On the day of his birth, his mother swilled back a beer, scratched her buttocks, looked at him and said, "Yer' even uglier than your old man." "Did you say something in there, pudgeball?" yelled the man who fathered Chuck nine months earlier after a night of drinking Wild Turkey and pickin' off rats with a shotgun from the front porch. A boisterous fight ensued between Chuck's parents. The feud ended as it always did, with Chuck's father being shoved out the window, his butt flat on the ground, whiskey bottle in hand. Thus began a life of poverty, tacky social situations, seedy relatives and insufferable stupidity for young Chuck.
Yet even under these dire circumstances. Chuck found that he had a way with a tune, and
could charm the overalls off of neighborhood fans! Chuck's first combo, Blue Toast, won local acclaim playing weddings, Elks Lodges, basement poker parties, and yard sales. The turning point in Chuck's life came when he won a local talent show. In addition to his first prize of a lumberyard tour, he won a one-way bus fare to Las Vegas. Chuck was so excited, he ate only two helpings of food at each meal for days! Chuck felt that Vegas was his destiny, so he packed up his belongings, said good-bye to his folks and headed west to that great gambling Mecca in the desert. He was leaving the nest for the first time in his life. He was 39.
The first few years in Las Vegas did not go well. Chuck failed miserably at finding a singing gig, as the competition simply had him out-classed. During those desperate years,
Chuck developed some bad habits. Before he knew it, he was a borderline alcoholic, 100 pounds overweight and deep in debt as a result gambling losses. The low point came when was booted out of his low rent, vermin-infested motel, his butt flat on the ground, whiskey bottle in hand. At just that moment, a tall, blond man intervened and invited Chuck along to an AA meeting down the street. Chuck attended the meeting and became friends with the man. Things started to change. Chuck then sought help for his other problems at Overeaters Anonymous and Gambler's Anonymous. At each place he struck up a friendship with a kindred spirit.
One year from the very day that Chuck was thrown out of that motel (now a Vegas landmark), he had turned his life around. The time was right for Chuck to take another shot at being a lounge singer, so he created a musical alliance with his three new friends. Dean, who Chuck met at Alcoholics Anonymous, would sing high tenor. Wilson, an acquaintance from Overeaters Anonymous, would take the low tenor slot. His friend from Gamblers Anonymous, Floyd, would sing bass. Chuck would front the act and together they'd sing songs about life, food, women and weirdoes. They pooled their funds to buy some used tuxedos, shine their shoes and hire a crack band of college age musicians. The new group was called "Chuck Lucky & the Gentlemen of Leisure" and they've since proven to be one of the top-drawing acts in town! The boys are really livin' it up, now that they've all fallen off the wagon and are once again overindulging in food and drink. And you can be sure to find them hittin' the slot machines and crap tables after the gig too! But hey, they can afford it now!
So if you're in the mood for some swingin'-funky-jazzy-bluesy-groovin' tunes, all done with a good dose of lounge thrown in, do yourself a favor and check out the hilarious tunes of "Chuck Lucky & the Gentlemen of Leisure." This rag-tag group of loveable losers will keep you entertained until you get bored and leave.Your musical influences
Every lounge, funk and blues band ever...Anything else?
"Chuck Lucky & the Gentlemen of Leisure" characters and concept created by Dave Renneker:
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Songs written & performed by Mike Renneker
Encino, CA
USA
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316032
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Chuck Lucky and the Gentlemen of Leisure is THE paramount lounge act! Keep it up fella's!
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