Johnny Dollar

Johnny Dollar (March 8, 1933 – April 13, 1986) was an American country and rockabilly musician.

Biography Dollar was born on March 8, 1933 in Kilgore, Texas, the son of John Washington Dollar and his wife Nellie Mae Morgan. On March 10, 1950, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the age of seventeen. Dollar served during the Korean War period, receiving his discharge from active duty as a corporal on August 17, 1953. His best-selling album was 1968's Johnny Dollar, which reached No. 41 on the U.S. Billboard Country Albums chart. His name was often confused with that of radio's fictional detective Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account"; Dollar the singer was often publicized as "Mr. Action-Packed."

For much of the 1970s, Dollar did production work, for the New Coon Creek Girls, Jimmy Dickens, and Teddy Nelson, among others.

Johnny Dollar married and divorced four times, and became an alcoholic; late in his career he acquired throat cancer, and the operations destroyed his ability to sing. He committed suicide on April 13, 1986.

Albums Year Album US Country Label 1968 Johnny Dollar 41 Date 1969 Big Rig Rollin' Man — Chart

Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country CAN Country 1966 "Tear-Talk" 49 — singles only "Stop the Start (Of Tears in My Heart)" 15 — "Crazy Eyes" — — 1967 "Your Hands" 65 — "The Wheels Fell Off the Wagon Again" 47 — Johnny Dollar 1968 "Everybody's Got to Be Somebody" 42 — "Do-Die" — 24 "Big Rig Rollin' Man" 48 — Big Rig Rollin' Man 1969 "Big Wheels Sing for Me" 65 — "If I Get Low Enough" — — "Rain Falls in Denver Tonight" — — 1970 "Truck Driver's Lament" 71 — "Just a Swallow Away" — — singles only 1971 "Highway in the Sky" — — "If We Make the Front Door Open Woman" — —