:Chinga Chavin

Nick "Chinga" Chavin was born in 1944 to a Jewish family.{{cite web | url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/nathan-chavin-jewish-ad-exec-who-wrote-raunchy-country-western-hit-dies-at-78/amp/ | title=Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78 | the Times of Israel | website=The Times of Israel }} He achieved considerable notoriety when he recorded and released the raunchy comedy album Country Porn in 1976. It was sold through the mail by Penthouse magazine and sold over 100,000 units. Country Porn was reissued on CD in 1992 with liner notes, a booklet complete with song lyrics and photographs, and four bonus songs.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Track 2 of the album is a song Chavin wrote with friend Kinky Friedman,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nT0_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|title=Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman|first=Mary Lou|last=Sullivan|date=October 1, 2017|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-1-5400-0499-4 |via=Google Books}} the comedic "Asshole from El Paso," a blithely vulgar parody of the country classic "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard. Friedman later recorded a much shorter and less rudely worded version of the song.{{cite news |title=The 'kinkster' on the case |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_8048/is_20050202/ai_n47328756/ |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=February 2, 2005 |accessdate=July 10, 2010 | first=Calev | last=Ben-David}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Track 3 of the album, "Cum Stains on the Pillow", was covered in reworded form by David Allan Coe, on his 1978 album Nothing Sacred.

Chavin's other albums are Jet Lag and Live and Politically Erect. He contributed two songs to the soundtrack of the adults only mystery thriller Punk Rock. Chavin ran an advertising agency in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1848494/bio|title=Chinga Chavin|website=IMDb }}

Chavin was friends with Robert Durst. He testified against Durst in the murder trial of Susan Berman{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/robert-durst-trial-inside-secret-witnesss-country-porn-past-112968/|title=Robert Durst Trial: Inside Secret Witness's 'Country-Porn' Past|first=Jeff|last=Gottlieb|magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 2, 2017}} and appeared in the second season of The Jinx.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/the-jinx-part-2-nick-chavin|title=The Jinx: Meet Nick Chavin, Robert Durst's Best Friend Turned Secret Witness|date=April 29, 2024|magazine=Vanity Fair}}

Chavin died in Boca Raton, Florida, on March 15, 2023. In a remembrance, longtime friend and collaborator Kinky Friedman said, “He’s a guy who had a lot to offer. He really walked his own road.”{{Cite web|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/nathan-chavin-jewish-ad-exec-who-wrote-raunchy-country-western-hit-dies-at-78/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1o6GBSWmNTLCNXv1nt5poYP4ooJSTVwpUr6xYYYGJFR4JlA_UlLUaKT2A&mibextid=S66gvF|title= Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78 |website=Times of Israel }}

• Country Porn (Attic – LAT 1094, 1976)

1. Talkin' Matamoros First Piece O' Ass Blues
2. Asshole From El Paso
3. Cum Stains On The Pillow (Where Your Sweet Head Used To Be)
4. Head Boogie
5. Sit, Sit, Sit (Sit On My Face)
6. Dry Humping In The Back Of A '55 Ford
7. Get It On The Run
8. Tit Stop Rock
9. 4:00 A.M. Jump
10. Cum Unto Jesus (A Sacred Tune)
11. Bennies An' Beer
12. No Sell-Out Too Small
13. Jailbait
14. Scum Floats

(The last four songs were bonus tracks on the 1992 CD re-issue and were from the Jet Lag album)

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