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Johnny Paycheck

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1977 - I'm The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)

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416,612

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Greenfield, Ohio, USA

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1938

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1938 to 2003

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Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Take This Job and Shove It	193,842	4 users
Fifteen Beers	28,627	3 users
She's All I Got	73,629	3 users
Someone to Give My Love To	28,627	3 users

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Johnny Paycheck was the stage name of Donald Eugene Lytle (May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003), a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a major force in country music's "Outlaw Movement" popularized by artists such as David Allan Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career suffered from his problems with drugs, alcohol, and legal difficulties. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s but his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. After the year 2000 his health would only allow for short appearances. Suffering from emphysema and asthma after a lengthy illness, Paycheck died at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2003. His funeral was paid for by good friend and music legend George Jones.