John Wayne Conlee (born August 11, 1946)[1] is an American country music singer.

1 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".

[5] By age 10, Conlee had begun singing and playing guitar, and later sang tenor in a barbershop quartet.

[6] Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed mortician,[7][6] employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky,[8] and at WLAC in Nashville.

5 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, as well as the title track on his 1978 debut album.

1 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".

A second and final album for Columbia, American Faces, reached the Top 10 for the last time with "Domestic Life".

[1] 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 LRF.