News ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ Singer-Songwriter Johnny Nash Dead at 80By JD NashOctober 7, 20200 Marketed as a rival to Johnny Mathis, he made his major label debut in 1957 on the ABC-Paramount label with the single “A Teenager Sings the Blues.” Nash had his first chart hit in early 1958 with a cover of Doris Day’s “A Very Special Love.”