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Johnny Paycheck (May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) was a country music singer. He is most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It".
Early life and recordings
Born Donald Eugene Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio, United States| United States, he began playing guitar by age six and made his first record at age 15. {{Fact|date=February 2007 After a time served in the United States Navy (which included a court-martial for assault)[http://www.talentondisplay.com/JohnnyPaycheck.html], 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. He later co-wrote Jones' hit song "Once You've Had the Best." Paycheck was a tenor harmony singer for numerous hard country acts of the late 1950s and early 1960s including Ray Price. Paycheck along with Willie Nelson worked in Price's band the Cherokee Cowboys. He is featured as a tenor singer on recordings by Faron Young, Roger Miller, and Skeets McDonald.{{Fact|date=March 2008 All of these recordings are recognizable by their Honky tonk music|honky tonk purism. The recordings shun vocal choruses and strings, in favor of steel guitar, twin fiddles, shuffle beats, high harmony, and self-consciously miserable lyrics. As George Jones' tenor singer, Paycheck has been credited with the ... read all
