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Country singer Johnny PayCheck, 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 home because of emphysema and asthma. He died Tuesday, Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said.
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.
His biggest hit was “Take This Job and Shove It,” which inspired a movie by that name, and a title album that sold 2 million copies.
His other hits included “Don’t Take Her, She’s All I Got,” (which was revived 25 years later in 1996 by Tracy Byrd), “I’m the Only Hell Mama Ever Raised,” “Slide Off Your Satin Sheets,” “Old Violin” and “You Can Have Her.”
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.
His biggest hit was “Take This Job and Shove It,” which inspired a movie by that name, and a title album that sold 2 million copies.
His other hits included “Don’t Take Her, She’s All I Got,” (which was revived 25 years later in 1996 by Tracy Byrd), “I’m the Only Hell Mama Ever Raised,” “Slide Off Your Satin Sheets,” “Old Violin” and “You Can Have Her.”
