Trivia

He served two years in prison for felonious assault 1989-1991.

Is famous for his working man's anthem, "Take This Job and Shove It, a No. 1 hit on Billboard magazine's country singles chart in 1978. Other well-known hits include "(Don't Take Her) She's All I Got" (1971), "Someone to Give My Love To" (1972); and "Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets" and "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" (both 1977).

Country singer Tracy Byrd re-recorded the Paycheck songs, "Someone to Give My Love To" and "(Don't Take Her) She's All I Got"; Byrd made both hits all over again.

Shot a man in 1985 with a .22-caliber pistol, grazing his head. After three years of appeals, he was sent to a medium-security prison in 1989, but not before becoming a born-again Christian and quitting alcohol, drugs and cigarettes.

"Take This Job and Shove It" was his only No. 1 hit (2 weeks in 1978), and was the inspiration for a hit movie of the same name. The song is among the few pre-1990 songs still played at modern country radio stations, usually at 5 p.m. Fridays to signal the end of the work week.

Country singer and songwriter.

Wrote Tammy Wynette's first country hit, "Apartment No. 9" (1966).

Recorded his first tracks under the name Donny Young.

He recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles in his career.

He recorded for Decca and Mercury Records as Donny Young

He was a bass player for Porter Wagoner, Ray Price, Faron Young and George Jones.

His biggest hit was the workingman's anthem, "Take This Job and Shove It," which inspired a movie by that name, and a title album that sold 2 million copies.

In 2002, a PayCheck compilation album, "The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny PayCheck," was released.

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.

He filed for bankruptcy in 1990.

He served in the Navy in the mid-1950s and was later court-martialed and imprisoned for two years, for hitting a naval officer.

He was sued by the IRS in 1982 for $103,000 in back taxes.

He and another ex-convict, country star Merle Haggard, performed at the Chillicothe Correctional Institute in Ohio while PayCheck was imprisoned there.

He began playing the guitar by age 6 and singing professionally by age 15.

Two of his early hits, "She's All I Got" (1971) and "Someone to Give My Love To" (1972) were re-made in the 1990s by country singer Tracy Byrd. Byrd's verson of "Someone to Give My Love To" was his debut single in 1993, while "She's All I Got" made the top 10 in 1996.

Adopted the Johnny PayCheck stage name in 1962.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 415-417. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.