Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) [1] was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It".

Feb 19, 2003 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hell-raiser best known for his 1977 working man's anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” has died at 64. PayCheck had...

Feb 20, 2003 · Born Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio, he took the name Johnny Paycheck in the mid-1960s about a decade after moving to Nashville to build a country music career. Specializing in earthy, plainspoken songs, PayCheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles.

Aug 16, 2022 · Johnny Paycheck, the outlaw legend, lived a life of extremes, truly embodying a lifestyle that matched his outlaw persona. Paycheck was grew up poor, and pulled himself out of poverty with his music. He became a working-class hero after recording the great blue collar anthem “Take This Job and Shove It” in 1977.

Feb 20, 2003 · Johnny Paycheck, one of the most influential country singers of the last 40 years and yet for stretches of his career a Nashville pariah who became more famous for what he did spectacularly wrong...

Born Donald Eugene Lytle on May 31, 1938, in Greenfield, Ohio, PayCheck began his career playing in backing bands for George Jones, Ray Price, Porter Wagoner, Faron Young. He also proved himself to be an adept songwriter, writing Tammy …

Feb 20, 2003 · Johnny PayCheck, the country singer best known for his 1977 working man's anthem "Take This Job and Shove It," has died at 64. PayCheck had been bedridden in a nursing...

Feb 19, 2003 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hell-raiser best known for his 1977 working man's anthem “Take This Job and Shove It,” has died at 64. PayCheck had...

A one-time Nashville renegade, Johnny Paycheck was an ‘Outlaw’ before Waylon and Willie had even thought about leaving Texas. It took more than twenty years of hard-drinking, womanising, pill-popping and near-misses before Paycheck finally made the breakthrough to commercial success in the late 1970s.

From 1962-66, PayCheck was the front man and bass player for George Jones’ band, the Jones Boys. The singer re-invented himself as Johnny PayCheck, taking his name from a professional boxer. In 1966, he hooked up with producer Aubrey Mayhew and legally changed his name.