John Conlee

About

John Wayne Conlee (born August 11, 1946) 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 studio albums. 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 was born on a tobacco farm in Versailles, Kentucky. By age 10, Conlee had begun singing and playing guitar, and later sang tenor in a barbershop quartet.
Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed mortician, employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and at WLAC in Nashville.

In pursuit of a music career, Conlee moved to Nashville, Tennessee, by 1971. He signed to ABC Records in 1976. Conlee charted for the first time in 1978 with “Rose Colored Glasses”, a number-five hit on the Billboard Hot Country…