Jimmy and Donna Meade Dean at the piano of their Varina home, which was heavily damaged by fire overnight. Dean and his wife escaped the home unharmed, authorities said.
Posted on 06/13/2010 7:57:35 PM PDT by PROCON
Willard Whyte has eaten his final sausage..
R.I.P. Jimmy Dean.
Most people will probably remember him as the name on the sausage (and it was perfectly good sausage at that) but he was a memorable part of ‘60s television.
His Jimmy Dean Show from the late 1960s was great! I still remember one of my favorite dance song sequences from that show, “Feeling Groovy”.
His songs, “Big John”, PT-109 (Politically incorrect for today’s audiences— “The heathern gods of old Japan thought they had the best of a mighty good man.”) are what I grew up with.
He said he started the sausage company when he realized a lot of singers were broke after their careers ended. He made a lot of money selling that sausage. Love the guy! RIP Big Jim!
His big acting break ! Loved him ! Big Bad John ! ...magritte
His home on the James River is something of a local attraction. The Jimmy Dean brand logo is landscaped into the bank of the river. Beautiful spread.
Bacon, sausage, eggs, AND butter!
That’s a GRAND SLAM breakfast!
I watched the Jimmy Dean Show. He had Ralph the Dog which was a part of the Muppet Show which was a great variety show.
“He was from the same town as my mother”
Plainview, Texas; between Lubbock and Amarillo. I married a beautiful lady from that town while at Baylor.
Great book title! 30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham.
Breakfast sausages and links are one of the very few foods that disagrees with my stomach. Nevertheless, JD was a class guy and RIP sausage man.
Jimmy and Donna Meade Dean at the piano of their Varina home, which was heavily damaged by fire overnight. Dean and his wife escaped the home unharmed, authorities said.
ping :(
You are correct..A few weeks ago, I stumbled on one of the cable networks that shows Daniel Boone and watched it. I was a little kid when that series aired and never realized that Jimmy Dean was the 'side kick'. It really made my heart ache for the era that showed decent shows. Oh this particular one would be considered 'hokey' by today's standards but it was just so decent and had a good story line.
My mom will be broken hearted..think I will let her find out on the news instead of telling her.
RIP Mr. Dean
Sad day for the South... and America...
A big, big man....he will be missed, but fondly remembered.
“Big John” was a big song for me growing up.
The local AM station would play it out of the blue fairly regularly through the 70’s.
Just when you thought they’d never play it again...
“Big John, Big John
Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn’t give no lip to Big John...”
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