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OT: Country Artist Johnny Paycheck dies at 64

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CharlesBunch995

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Feb 19, 2003, 5:40:45 PM2/19/03
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Best known for 1977 hit 'Take This Job and Shove It'
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 19 - 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.
SPECIALIZING IN EARTHY, plainspoken songs, PayCheck recorded 70 albums
and had more than two dozen hit singles. 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."
"My music's always been about life. And situations. Situation
comedies, situation life," he said in 1997.
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. He began capitalizing the "c" in
PayCheck in the mid-1990s.
PayCheck's career was interrupted from 1989 to 1991 when he
served two years in prison for shooting a man in the head in an Ohio bar in
1985.
He and another ex-convict, country star Merle Haggard,
performed at the Chillicothe Correctional Institute in Ohio while PayCheck
was imprisoned there.
"I heard from fans constantly throughout the entire two years,"
PayCheck said after his release. "The letters never stopped, from throughout
the world. I looked forward to mail call every day."


Chuck

Broadwaychris

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Feb 19, 2003, 6:46:15 PM2/19/03
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>SPECIALIZING IN EARTHY, plainspoken songs, PayCheck recorded 70 albums
>and had more than two dozen hit singles.

70 ALBUMS? He sure did have alot to say!

>He began capitalizing the "c" in
>PayCheck in the mid-1990s.

Why?


>PayCheck's career was interrupted from 1989 to 1991 when he
>served two years in prison for shooting a man in the head in an Ohio bar in
>1985.

'Two Years'? What state was that?? Ohio? I wanna move there!


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SouthPaw

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Feb 19, 2003, 7:11:26 PM2/19/03
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the bar was in Hillsboro, Ohio (50 Miles outside of Cincinnati).


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Broadwaychris

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Feb 19, 2003, 7:20:02 PM2/19/03
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>the bar was in Hillsboro, Ohio (50 Miles outside of Cincinnati).

Can someone do me a favor, please charm my ex-wife to Hillsboro, Ohio? Dangle a
check or something.

SouthPaw

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Feb 19, 2003, 7:26:13 PM2/19/03
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Send her to Cincinnati, my ex and her can hang out! Sadly, they wouldn't be
caught dead in Hillsboro...no malls, no rich men just cow pastures and
trailers everywhere.


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Elvis7777

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:07:34 AM2/20/03
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>Can someone do me a favor, please charm my ex-wife to Hillsboro, Ohio? Dangle
>a
>check or something.
>
I can do that im only about 40 miles from Hillsboro, Ohio.

Bill

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:30:32 AM2/20/03
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Broadwaychris wrote:
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> >the bar was in Hillsboro, Ohio (50 Miles outside of Cincinnati).
>
> Can someone do me a favor, please charm my ex-wife to Hillsboro, Ohio? Dangle a
> check or something.

Isn't that how you proposed?

Bill

Broadwaychris

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Feb 20, 2003, 8:51:58 AM2/20/03
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>I can do that im only about 40 miles from Hillsboro, Ohio.

I wouldn't do that to a resident of AEK or Hillsboro, for that matter.
Her voice alone will have the townspeople looking for lynching loopholes in the
books.
Does anyone remember 'The Nanny'?
'Ooo-w Mistah Sheffield'

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