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Birth name
  
Donald Wayne Massey

Name
  
Wayne Massey

Siblings
  
Warren Massey

Associated acts
  
Children
  
Judd Massey

Instruments
  
Vocals, guitar

Genres
  
Occupation(s)
  
Singer, actor

Role
  
Musical Artist


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Origin
  
Labels
  
Epic, Mercury, Polydor, MCA, Hanna-Barbera Records

Spouse
  
Charly McClain (m. 1984), Andrea Evans (m. 1981–1983)

Parents
  
Georgia Massey, Floy Massey

People also search for
  
Charly McClain, Andrea Evans, Kylie Lyn Rodriguez, Stephen Rodriguez

Profiles

Charly McClain and Wayne Massey Tribute


Donald Wayne Massey (born in Glendale, California) is an American country music artist and actor. He is best known for playing the role of country/rock music superstar Johnny Drummond on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1980 to 1984. Massey is also known for his musical collaboration with his wife, country music singer Charly McClain, with whom he charted four duets between 1985 and 1986. He released eleven singles of his own, but never reached the Top 40 alone.

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Wayne Massey "It Should Have Been Easy" Live on "Pop! Goes the Country Club" 1982


Career

A graduate of Brigham Young University, Massey had been working in the business world when he was unexpectedly "discovered" and cast in his first acting role as Johnny Drummond on One Life to Live in 1980. During this time, he also starred in a made-for-TV movie called Crossfire. Massey released his first record album Wayne Massey: One Life To Live in 1980. After leaving the soap opera One Life to Live in 1984, he pursued a singing and producing career in country music for several years. He toured with country singer Charly McClain and topped the charts with four hit duets, the highest-ranking of which was "With Just One Look in Your Eyes" (1985), a number 5 single from McClain's Radio Heart album. Two others — "You Are My Music, You Are My Song" and "When It's Down To Me And You" — were from the couple's 1986 duets album When Love Is Right. He charted nine solo singles between 1980 and 1986, but none reached Top 40, although he was nominated as the Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist for his 1983 single "Say You'll Stay". His final singles "Shoot the Moon" and "Heaven in a Haystack" were released on Mercury Records in 1989, as was his solo album, Wayne Massey and Blackhawk. Massey left the recording industry in the 1990s.

Personal life

Massey was briefly married at age 22 (one son, Judd), and again later to his One Life to Live costar Andrea Evans from 1981 to 1983. He has been married to Charly McClain since July 1984.

Awards

1983: Academy of Country Music - Top New Male Vocalist Nominee

Filmography

Actor
1979
One Life to Live (TV Series) as
Johnny Drummond
- Grand Ole Opry - Part Two (1980) - Johnny Drummond
- Grand Ole Opry - Part One (1980) - Johnny Drummond
Soundtrack
1980
Dinah! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #6.211 (1980) - (performer: "One Life to Live")
1980
One Life to Live (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Grand Ole Opry - Part Two (1980) - (performer: "Amanda", "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer")
Self
1985
Nashville Now (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 21 October 1985 (1985) - Self
1985
This Week in Country Music (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 7 July 1985 (1985) - Self
1980
The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) as
Self / Self - Guest
- Episode dated 30 January 1985 (1985) - Self
- Madeline Kahn, Alberta Hunter, Pat Carroll, Patti LuPone, Alan Dysert, Wayne Massey (1980) - Self - Guest
1981
Florida's Disney Decade (TV Special) as
Self
1981
Hee Haw (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #12.16 (1981) - Self
1980
Dinah! (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #6.211 (1980) - Self

References

Wayne Massey Wikipedia