Johnny Paycheck (born
Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song Take This Job and Shove It . He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music s Outlaw Movement popularized by artists Coe, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada s greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend.
Lightfoot s songs, including For Lovin Me , Early Morning Rain , Steel Rail Blues , Ribbon of Darkness a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins s cover in 1965 and Black Day in July about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him international recognition in the 1960s. He experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the No. 3 hit (Remember Me) I m the One . Lightfoot s recordings then made an impact on the international music charts as well in the 1970s, with songs such as If You Could Read My Mind (1970) his first U.S. top 10 hit reaching #5. Sundown (19