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8 unusual facts about Jimmy Dean


Connie B. Gay

He would discover Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline soon after, and both became regular cast members of the TV program.

Several country artists that Gay managed, like Patsy Cline, Jimmy Dean, and Roy Clark, became inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Hale County, Texas

1969 Country artist Jimmy Dean, brother Don Dean, and cousin-in-law Troy Pritchard found the Jimmy Dean Sausage Company and open the Jimmy Dean Meat Company in Plainview.

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing

Jimmy Dean's 1962 song "Steel Men" is a ballad about the Second Narrows bridge disaster.

Mama Sang a Song

In addition to Anderson, several country and popular performers recorded their own versions of "Mama Sang a Song," including Walter Brennan, Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dean and Faron Young.

Ruth Roberts

Some of Roberts' other songs included "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)" (co-written with and recorded by Jimmy Dean) and "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues".

Seth Ward, Texas

The singer Jimmy Dean spent at least part of his childhood in the unincorporated community which is just northeast of Plainview, Texas.

The Ballad of Andy Crocker

Lisa has married another man (her "Dear John" letter to Andy apparently never received), and a friend entrusted to take care of the motorcycle track business (Mack, played by Jimmy Dean) has made arrangements to sell it out from under Andy.


1928 in country music

August 10 - Jimmy Dean, singer-songwriter best known for "Big Bad John" and other 1960s ballads; television host and businessman/founder of eponymously named sausage company (died 2010).


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