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"Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets" 7 7 Slide Off Your Satin Sheets "I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" 8 6 "Take This Job and Shove It" 1 1 Take This Job and Shove It: 1978 "Georgia in a Jug" 17 6 "Friend, Lover, Wife" 7 8 Armed and Crazy: 1979 "The Outlaw's Prayer" 27 29 "Down on the Corner at a Bar Called Kelly's" 94 — —
Take This Job and Shove It is the seventeenth album released by country music artist Johnny Paycheck. It was his second album released in 1977 (see 1977 in country music) and is his most commercially successful album, being certified platinum by the RIAA. It contains his most well known song, the David Allan Coe-written title song. It was his ...
In 1964, he changed his name legally to Johnny Paycheck, taking the name from Johnny Paychek, a top-ranked boxer from Chicago who once fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight title (and not directly as a humorous alternative to Johnny Cash, as is commonly believed). [5] He first charted under his new name with "A-11" in 1965.
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The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also titled Take This Job and Shove It. The recording hit number one on the country charts for two weeks, spending 18 weeks on the charts. [1] It was Paycheck's only #1 hit. Its B-side, "Colorado Kool-Aid," spent ten weeks on the same chart and peaked at #50. [1]
Singletary wanted to include Paycheck on his recording, and had a then-ill Paycheck deliver the song's closing recitation from his hospital bed. This recording was Paycheck's last before his death in early 2003. [5] [6] George Strait covered the song on his 2019 album Honky Tonk Time Machine. [7]
Double Trouble is an album by American country music artists George Jones and Johnny Paycheck. [1] It was released in 1980 on the Epic Records label. The album consists of covers of rock and roll hits from the 1950s and 1960s, with the exception of the opening track, "When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)", an original song.
Single by George Jones & Johnny Paycheck; from the album Double Trouble; B-side "Kansas City" Released: 1980: Recorded: 1980: Genre: Country: Length: 2: 20: Label: Epic: Songwriter(s) Don Goodman, Rick Schulman: Producer(s) Billy Sherrill: George Jones & Johnny Paycheck singles chronology