About Chuck
Chuck is a high school math teacher at Lakota West High School in Cincinnati. The “Perfect Pitch Math Teacher” is appearing on NBC’s Holiday special “Clash of the Choirs” and is currently rehearsing in New York City!! Rumor has it Chuck will appear on the Today Show at 7:30 on Monday, December 17th to promote the show!! Please leave comments on this blog to support Chuck and Nick Lachey’s Cincinnati choir “513 United”.
David Leisten said
Great to talk to you the other night. We’ll be watching and voting 513 on Monday. Gena and I can’t wait to see you and Kevin represent Cincinnati!!!
chuckmerk said
Actually — it’s not a rumor — it’s a reality !!! Get it? Reality? Like Reality TV? OK so it’s early. Anyways, the other good news besides the Today show stuff is that me and a group of 9 other singers are going to Rockefeller Plaza today to sing Christmas Carols to be taped … to be shown as the “bumps” for the show. i didn’t know what “bumps” were either, until I asked one of the producers. Evidently it’s the commercial lead-in and lead-outs. So when the show goes live Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs, and when we break for commercial, they are going to show us caroling and singing. The ten of us were hand-picked by the 5 choirmasters. Pretty cool.
Lisa Geggie said
Hi there! I am so excited to know someone on this show! Matt and I will be watching!
Good Luck and sing, sing, sing! 
We’ll keep up with you on your site!
Take care!!! Love, Lisa, Matt, Emma and Noah
Tara McVan said
Cheer up Charlie! So now that you are about to be famous, will you go by a stage name… maybe George Brett Davis? Jack and Jorie miss you. Jack was singing today and he said he was practicing for when he goes on the choir show when he grows up! See you Monday on TV!
Brad said
Chuck, I know you will rock it on stage. Everyone misses ya in cincy, cant wait to see you on tv!!
Jim Morrison said
Chuck, I’m taking good care of your students while you are in NYC. Make sure you win this contest!! JM
MvLovin said
Break a Leg Chuck! Good luck and most importantly, embrace this moment and enjoy this once in a lifetime opportunity! You have my vote already! -G$
p.s. Im sure you’re not having as much fun in NYC as we did when we were there in 2001!!!
Joey Veloira said
Loafy thanks for the email. Chuck – that’s so awesome that you get to represent. We’ll be watchin’ ya from Orlando rooting ya’all on! You will ROCK!
Susie Swanson said
MR.MEEERRRKKKK!!!!!!!
Susie Swanson said
OMG–It was really you!! You were awesome!! I told everyone I know to watch. Drummer says you will be hearing from him!
Angie McClellan said
I will be watching every step of the way!! Does Nick know you can name the pitch of a car horn?
Best of luck!
Angelitacolita
SGT Rokicki said
Mr. Merk,
You have US Army support, best of luck to you.
Brian Meeron said
Rock on Chuck — you da man! Represent Cincy and the Lakota Empire and bring home something good!
Susie Swanson said
I don’t know about you but I am so excited–I found myself telling strangers at Kroger to watch you on the show tonight…
Steve Haines said
Hey Merk!
this is so cool for you and Kevin!! Break all your legs! — I’ll be watching for sure!
Doreen said
You rock Chuck! Good luck. I’m staying up late to vote!!
johnny drama said
good luck tonight bro! i’m looking forward to riding your coattails in hollywood
Susie Swanson said
I am NEVER up this late and I have never voted before but my fingers are busy. I am up and I am voting–you ROCK!!!
Jackie Allison said
You guys were AMAZING! I could totally pick out your voice in the show and in the bumps! Then again, I could SEE you, so it wasn’t as hard this time as on the CD… LOL! Anyway I have voted 40 times so far… thank God for cell phones and multiple email addresses! I’m shooting for 100! Love, your sister-agent
Shawn said
Awesome Job last night! Leslie and I laughed and smiled the entire time yelling “There he is!” everytime we saw you! Zoe danced the entire time you guys sang and asked when she would get to see you. I thought you guys were amazing and I loved the arrangement! We of course voted our ten times! Looking forward to seeing you on the show again tonight! Good luck!
Susie Swanson said
This is such an amazing opportunity–Abby and Cain watched from St. Pete and my niece Mindy was watching from Colorado and we all voted–can’t wait to see you tonight!! I was shouting and jumping up and down–texting and dialing the phone–you came on as we were sitting down to dinner–needless to say–dinner went by the wayside.
Danielle Hutter said
Good luck tonight! Just wanted you to know that we’re rooting for you and we voted 40 times last night! =) Hope you’re having a good time in New York! You’re doing great! =)
- The Hutters
Joey Veloira said
Great Show last night and congrats on being part of the smaller group! How exciting! You all rocked the house. Also – thanks for the writing your blogs. Makes us all feel like we’re there with you. GOOD LUCK tonight!
Jack Keegan (I think I will go by John said
Hey Chuck,
You guys were great. Good luck tonight and I will vote!
Jack (John F.) Keegan
Jackie Allison said
YEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAA!!! You guys KILLED IT! Dang that brought back memories of 1903 Oxford Commons, a keg of Beast and some Swisher Sweets! See you tomorrow night for sure!
David Sheldrick said
Great job the last two nights. Keep it up and Amy and I will keep those votes coming.
Joey Veloira said
Absolutely BUZZING with excitement. Amazing tonight!
Georgia & Wayne Dunn said
You are making Wilmington and Lakota West proud (along with the two of us, of course). I have never voted for any reality show in my life until now. I discovered that if I just hit the back button on my browser, all of my information was still on the page and I could continue to vote. (Helped my carpal tunnel.)
Tell Kevin we are supporting all of you. Hope you will get at least some time to enjoy the city while you are there.
We’ll be watching you win tomorrow night, despite the obvious favoritism of the hostess. Flight of the Bumblebee was truly wonderful.
We are proud.
Susie Swanson said
Just watched you on YouTube…Can not wait for tonight!!!
Danielle Hutter said
Congratulations!! =) Hope to see you at Grandma’s for Christmas!!
Jordan Fannin said
I remember you mentioning that you could sing last school year in 5th period, and you were great. Congratz.
Georgia & Wayne Dunn said
All of Cincinnati is proud and breathing a sigh of relief that the best CHOIR won – not the best backup group. Enjoy NYC!
Susie Swanson said
Me–Speechless, imagine that!! INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got up about 4 this morning and wondered if you had gone to bed yet….betting not. Congrats. You guys are wonderful.
Susie Swanson said
Just got an email from my mom in Illinois–she says
“Cincinnati Rocks!” Gotta love that!! All my doodle friends send their congrats as well–I really spread the word my friend!
Kathy Cope said
Congratulations! We have enjoyed watching you all week and was so happy when you won last night.
Rodger and Kathy Cope (Amy Sheldrick’s parents)
Travis Brown said
Merk, congrats dude. From Wilmington, to Lakota, to reality TV. Even East supported a West guy on this one.
Ross & Kathy Holthouse said
Congratulations Charlie! (Sorry, we can’t call you Chuck!)
We are really happy for you and the choir. You all truly deserved to win!
-Ross and Kathy
(and Madelyn & Ryan)- our kids loved Flight of the Bumblebee!
Ashton Nicely said
Mr. Merrkkkk!!!! Oh my gosh I could hardly believe it the other night when I was watching the second night of clash of the choirs and there you were talking I had to pause the tv a bazillion times and rewind it to show my mom:) congradulationsss on your big winn you guyss were amazingggg
Jackie Ballman (Schoeneberg) said
Way to go Charlie!! I’m proud to be able to say, “I knew you when….” It must have been all of that church choir training
-Jackie