After a seven-year chart absence, the novelty song 'My Ding-A-Ling' finally gave Chuck a No.1.
With his debut LP My Aim Is True still on the American album chart, Elvis Costello's 'This Year's Model' joined it there on 15 April 1978.
Ware also wrote for many of the leading names in the R&B world, including the Isley Brothers and Quincy Jones, and made many fine records in his own name.