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    • Jan 8, 1977
    Roy Rogers & Dale Evans sit in as guest hosts for "Music Hall America." The syndicated TV program also welcomes Bill Anderson, Mary Lou Turner, Brenda Lee and Johnny Paycheck
    Jan 26, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck announces he's been paid $250,000 for a three-year agreement to use his name on a venue, the Johnny Paycheck Club, on Nashville's Printers Alley
    Mar 8, 1977
    Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard talk about environmental issues with Robert Redford at producer Billy Sherrill's Nashville home. Other party guests include Marty Robbins, Charlie Rich, Johnny Paycheck, Charlie Daniels, Mel Tillis and Ray Stevens. Months later, Redford casts Nelson in the film "The Electric Horseman"
    Apr 15, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck plays a criminal on the CBS drama "Nashville 99," starring Claude Akins, Charley Pride and Jerry Reed as police detectives. Guest Chet Atkins plays guitar in a stairwell with Reed, who opens the episode singing "Birmingham Jail." Also heard are partial versions of "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "Bile Them Cabbage Down"
    Aug 18, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck performs for 400 inmates at the Correctional Center for Women in Alderson, West Virginia
    Aug 23, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck records "Barstool Mountain" at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. Moe Bandy has a hit with the song two years later
    Aug 24, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck records the David Allan Coe-penned "Take This Job And Shove It" at Nashville's Columbia Recording Studio
    Oct 14, 1977
    Epic releases Johnny Paycheck's signature hit, "Take This Job And Shove It"
    Dec 30, 1977
    Johnny Paycheck gives a free concert in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, to support striking coal miners. Paycheck plays "Take This Job And Shove It" twice
    Jan 7, 1978
    Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job And Shove It" works its way to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
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