Chinga Chavin

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title: "Chinga Chavin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1944-births", "2023-deaths", "american-satirical-musicians"] description: "American musician (1944–2023)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinga_Chavin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American musician (1944–2023) ::

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alias	Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin
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death_place	Boca Raton, Florida
genre	Comedy
occupation	Musician, advertising executive
label	Attic
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| background = person | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | alias = Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin | birth_date = | death_date = | death_place = Boca Raton, Florida | genre = Comedy | occupation = Musician, advertising executive | label = Attic Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin (July 3, 1944 – March 15, 2023), also known by the stage name Chinga Chavin, was an American musician and advertising executive. Chavin released the album Country Porn in 1976 on Attic Records.

Life and career

Nick "Chinga" Chavin was born in 1944 to a Jewish family. 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.

Track 2 of the album is a song Chavin wrote with friend Kinky Friedman, 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. 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.

Personal life

Chavin was friends with Robert Durst. He testified against Durst in the murder trial of Susan Berman and appeared in the second season of The Jinx.

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.”

Selected discography

• 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)

References

References

1. Bryant, Clifton D.. (1977). "Sexual deviancy in social context". New Viewpoints.
2. "Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78 | the Times of Israel".
3. Sullivan, Mary Lou. (October 1, 2017). "Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman". Hal Leonard Corporation.
4. Ben-David}} {{Dead link, Calev. (February 2, 2005). "The 'kinkster' on the case". [[The Jerusalem Post]].
5. "Chinga Chavin".
6. Gottlieb, Jeff. (May 2, 2017). "Robert Durst Trial: Inside Secret Witness's 'Country-Porn' Past".
7. (April 29, 2024). "The Jinx: Meet Nick Chavin, Robert Durst's Best Friend Turned Secret Witness".
8. "Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote raunchy country western hit, dies at 78".

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