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Johnny Paycheck

real name Donald Eugene Lytle

country music singer-songwriter

Greenfield, United States · 1938-05-31 – 2003-02-19

Johnny Paycheck is credited on 557 releases across 194 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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557

Credits

194

Albums

7

Decades active

110

In collections

Biography

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American outlaw-country entertainer. Co-founder of the Little Darlin' Nashville label with producer-publisher Aubrey Mayhew. Noted as much for his scrapes with the law as for his string of classic country hits.
Paycheck contracted emphysema and asthma after a lengthy illness. He died at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
B. 31 May 1938, Greenfield, OH.
D. 19 February 2003 in Nashville, TN.

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Credited work

557 releases · 194 albums · active 1961–2025

  • Performance · 744
  • Other credits · 13
  • Production · 9
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville · CBS Studios, Nashville · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios

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