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John Wayne Conlee (born August 11, 1946) (1993). 9780851127262, Guinness Publishing. ISBN 9780851127262 is an American country music singer.
Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of 32 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and recorded 11 . His singles include seven number-one hits: "Lady Lay Down", "Backside of Thirty", "Common Man", "I'm Only in It for the Love", "In My Eyes", "As Long as I'm Rockin' with You", and "Got My Heart Set on You". In addition to these, Conlee had 14 other songs reach the top 10.
Conlee has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1981.
Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed funeral director, employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and at WLAC in Nashville.
Following ABC's merger with MCA Records, Conlee released his 1979 album Forever on MCA. Its singles, "Before My Time" (number two) and "Baby, You're Something" (number seven), were top-10 hits. A second MCA release, Friday Night Blues, produced two more number-two hits - the title track and "She Can't Say that Anymore". The song "What I Had with You" (number 12) followed. The 1981 album, With Love, accounted for yet another hit with "Miss Emily's Picture" (number two), which Conlee performed live on Hee Haw on January 3, 1981.
Conlee's 1982 album Busted led off with a cover version of the Harlan Howard song of the same name. The album's last single, "Common Man", returned him to the top of the charts in 1983. Three more number-one hits came from the 1983 album In My Eyes: "I'm Only in It for the Love" (co-written with Kix Brooks), the title track, and "As Long as I'm Rockin' with You". MCA also released a Greatest Hits album in 1983.
Blue Highway in 1984, his last studio album for MCA, produced another number two with "Years After You". A year later, a second Greatest Hits album produced his last MCA single with the number-five "Old School", before he moved to Columbia Records. Conlee's first Columbia release, Harmony, gave him his last number-one hit with "Got My Heart Set on You" in 1986. A second and final album for Columbia, American Faces, reached the top 10 for the last time with "Domestic Life". This was followed by "Mama's Rockin' Chair" at number 11 (his last top-40 hit). From there, Conlee moved to 16th Avenue Records, releasing Fellow Travelers in 1989.
In 2005, Conlee donated his concert performance of "Rose Colored Glasses" at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, to benefit the Lymphatic Research Foundation in New York. Conlee sang his signature song and auctioned off a pair of "rose-colored glasses" with the proceeds going to the foundation.
Conlee has appeared on Larry's Country Diner and Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (released on DVD/CD) via RFD-TV and Country Road TV.
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