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Birth name: Donald Eugene Lytle. Also known as: Johnny PayCheck. Born: May 31, 1938 Greenfield, Ohio, USA. Died: February 18, 2003 in Nashville, TN. He is most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". Born Donald Eugene Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio, he began playing guitar by age six and made his first record at age 15.[citation needed] After a time served in the United States Navy (which included a court-martial for assault), he began performing under the name Donny Young. The singer took a job with country music star George Jones, for whom he played bass and steel guitar for several years, co-writing Jones' hit song, "Once You've Had the Best." By the 1960s, he had changed his name to Johnny Paycheck, a name similar to Johnny Cash. Lytle reportedly re-named himself after the boxer, Johnny Paychek, who fought Joe Louis in 1940. A member of the Grand Ole Opry, Paycheck is best remembered for his 1977 hit single, "Take This Job and Shove It" (written by David Allan Coe), which sold over 2 million copies and inspired a motion picture of the same name. "Colorado Kool-Aid" is another of his most famous songs. In his career, Paycheck recorded eleven songs that made it into country music's top ten chart, plus he co-wrote several successful songs for other country singers, including "Apartment #9," a hit for Tammy Wynette. His life was often filled with turmoil and in 1985, Paycheck was convicted of shooting a man in Hillsboro, Ohio and spent two years in prison. His tax problems with the IRS led to his filing for bankruptcy in 1990. In the 1990s, he began capitalizing the fourth letter of his name in a style later dubbed CamelCase, preferring to be known as Johnny PayCheck. Paycheck suffered from drug and alcohol addiction during his career, although he was said to have "put his life in order" after his prison stay. Suffering from emphysema and asthma after a lengthy illness, Johnny Paycheck died at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was interred in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville. |
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