Johnny Paycheck
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Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member best known for recording "Take This Job and Shove It," a David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It."
He made his best known as a protagonist in country music's "Outlaw Movement," which was popularized by musicians David Allan Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard.
His musical career slowed in the 1980s due to heroin, alcohol, and court difficulties.
In the early 1990s, he served a prison term, but his declining health ended his career in early 2000.
Paycheck appeared on the PBS music show Austin City Limits in 1980 (season 5).
Early life
Johnny PayCheck was born in Greenfield, Ohio, on May 31, 1938. Eugene Lytle was born. Lytle was already competing in talent competitions by the age of 9. By age 15, he was performing professionally by the age of 15.
Personal life
Paycheck was married; Sharon and his wife Sharon had a son. He began capitalizing the letter 'c' in his surname to PayCheck in the 1990s.
He was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison for assaulting a naval officer in the 1950s.
Paycheck was jailed in 1981 in Wyoming for statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl. Members of Paycheck's family told investigators that the singer had a number of issues with allegations due to his celebrity. He was released on bond. In 1982, he pled no contest in order to continue his touring and not go to court. The prosecution's witnesses were reluctant to testify. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor and was fined $1,000. The event resulted in a $3 million civil lawsuit, but the lawsuit never made it to a judge.
Paycheck was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison for shooting a man at the North High Lounge in Hillsboro, Ohio, in December 1985; he had fired a.22 rifle, and the bullet struck the man's head. The act, according to Paycheck, was self-defense. After many years of fighting the prison term, he began serving his sentence in 1989, spending 22 months in jail before being pardoned by Ohio Governor Richard Celeste.
He filed for bankruptcy in 1990 due to tax liens with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which included a $300,000 lien.
Although Paycheck was addicted to opioids and alcohol during his career, he later was determined to have "put his life in order" following his release from jail.
His health will only allow for brief appearances after 2000. After a long illness, Paycheck died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville in 2003, aged 64.
In a plot donated by George Jones, he was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville.
Career
After a stint in the Navy in the 1950s, he relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. He was a tenor harmony singer with numerous hard country performers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Ray Price. He worked along with Willie Nelson in Price's band the Cherokee Cowboys. He was featured as a tenor singer on recordings by Faron Young, Roger Miller, and Skeets McDonald. In 1960, he reached Top 35 status in Cashbox magazine's country charts as Donny Young with the tune "Miracle Of Love". In the early 1960s, he convinced country music legend George Jones to hire him. Paycheck provided harmony vocals as well as bass and steel guitar for Jones. He later co-wrote Jones's hit song "Once You've Had the Best." From the early to mid 1960s, he also enjoyed some success as a songwriter for others, with his biggest songwriting hit being "Apartment No. 9", which served as Tammy Wynette's first chart hit in December 1966.
In 1964, he changed his name legally to Johnny Paycheck, taking the name from Johnny Paychek, a top-ranked boxer from Chicago who once fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight title (and not directly as a humorous alternative to Johnny Cash, as is commonly believed). He first charted under his new name with "A-11" in 1965. His bestselling single from this period was "She's All I Got", which reached No. 2 on the US country singles charts in 1971 and made it onto the Billboard Hot 100. His "Mr. Lovemaker" also reached No. 2 on the US country singles chart in 1973. But with the popularity of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings in the mid-1970s, Paycheck changed his image to that of outlaw, with which he was to have his largest financial success.
His producer Billy Sherrill helped revive his career by significantly changing his sound and image. Sherrill was best known for carefully choreographing his records and infusing them with considerable pop feel. The Paycheck records were clearly based on Sherrill's take on the bands backing Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson on records.
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 two million copies and inspired a motion picture of the same name. "Colorado Kool-Aid", "Me and the IRS", "Friend, Lover, Wife", "Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets", and "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" were other hits for Paycheck during this period. He received an Academy of Country Music Career Achievement award in 1977.
The most successful of his later singles, released during his appeal, was "Old Violin", which reached No. 21 on the country chart in 1986. His last album to chart was "Modern Times" in 1987. He continued to release albums, the last of which, Remembering, appeared in 2002. He continued to perform and tour until the late 1990s. Shortly before his retirement, in 1997, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry; in a rare exception to protocol, Opry general manager Bob Whittaker personally invited Paycheck to join instead of having another member do the invitation.
With his producer, Aubrey Mayhew, Paycheck co-owned his record company, Little Darlin' Records. Paycheck's recordings by Little Darlin' featured the pedal steel guitar work of Lloyd Green. By the end of the 1960s, Little Darlin' Records folded. Mayhew and Paycheck soon created Certron Records, a newly formed recording company owned by Certron (a manufacturer of audio and video tape). The label was able to sign Bobby Helms, Ronnie Dove, Clint Eastwood, Pozo-Seco Singers (as Pozo Seco), and Paycheck. After the move to Certron, the label was unable to make a profit and closed by 1972. In the late 1990s, after decades ignored, Little Darlin' recordings received recognition by country music historians for their distinctive and sharp-edged sound, considered unique in their time—Paycheck's in particular.