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Obit: Jimmy Dean, famous for songs 'n sausage, at 81

On WSM this morning, Bill Cody actually played "P.T. 109" (a song about JFK's heroism in WWII) rather than "Big Bad John." Would have preferred to hear the latter, but Cody said that that would have been too predictable. (Would also like to have heard its forgotten B-side, "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake, But I'll Go Chasin' Wimmen"! ;D)
 
firepoint525 said:
(Would also like to have heard its forgotten B-side, "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake, But I'll Go Chasin' Wimmen"! ;D)
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Look no further than my iPod. Right after "Aunt Maudie's Fun Garden". :)

R.I.P. Jimmy
 
(Would also like to have heard its forgotten B-side, "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake, But I'll Go Chasin' Wimmen"! )
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That's where that song came from! Our barbershop chorus (actually, a chapter quartet therein) did that one in our annual show a few years ago. Jimmy Dean's ABC variety show gave the Muppets some of their first national exposure...Loved watchin' Jimmy and Rowlf bust on each other. Since Jimmy and Jim Henson both started on local TV in DC, I wonder if they ever worked together there.
 
BRNout said:
By any account I've ever heard, Jimmy Dean was a pretty good guy.
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...in his later years, anyway. During one of Johnny Carson's contract squabbles in the '60s, according to Terry Galanoy's book about The Tonight Show, Jimmy Dean had been brought in as a fill-in host and quickly jettisoned when he kept making on-the-air jokes about Jack Paar supposedly returning to the show...
 
Ultimajock said:
BRNout said:
By any account I've ever heard, Jimmy Dean was a pretty good guy.
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...in his later years, anyway. During one of Johnny Carson's contract squabbles in the '60s, according to Terry Galanoy's book about The Tonight Show, Jimmy Dean had been brought in as a fill-in host and quickly jettisoned when he kept making on-the-air jokes about Jack Paar supposedly returning to the show...
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And let's not forget that, when future Hee Haw co-host Roy Clark was a sideman, Dean fired him for constantly being late for gigs.
 
wbhist said:
Ultimajock said:
BRNout said:
By any account I've ever heard, Jimmy Dean was a pretty good guy.
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...in his later years, anyway. During one of Johnny Carson's contract squabbles in the '60s, according to Terry Galanoy's book about The Tonight Show, Jimmy Dean had been brought in as a fill-in host and quickly jettisoned when he kept making on-the-air jokes about Jack Paar supposedly returning to the show...
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And let's not forget that, when future Hee Haw co-host Roy Clark was a sideman, Dean fired him for constantly being late for gigs.
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I hope you're not implying that firing an employee for "constantly being late for gigs" somehow made Jimmy Dean a bad guy in any way.

I had a business partner many years ago who was constantly late for both business meetings and personal engagements - it's rude, unprofessional. and selfish. I would have fired him if I could have.

Sorry - guess you pushed one of my buttons...
 
Lkeller said:
I hope you're not implying that firing an employee for "constantly being late for gigs" somehow made Jimmy Dean a bad guy in any way.

I had a business partner many years ago who was constantly late for both business meetings and personal engagements - it's rude, unprofessional. and selfish. I would have fired him if I could have.

Sorry - guess you pushed one of my buttons...
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That wasn't the intent - rather, to point out that Jimmy Dean was something of a hard taskmaster off- and back-stage, especially in that period in question. Contrasting with his on-stage persona.
 
wbhist said:
[W]hen ... Roy Clark was a sideman, Dean fired him for constantly being late for gigs.
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Did Clark ever explain, at the time or later, to Dean or in an interview, his chronic Sly Stone-itis?

ixnay
 
I read a quote from Clark that he never held a grudge and they remained friends. Getting fired from Dean's band began a great solo career for Clark. I read that Dean told Clark, "You're the most talented person I ever fired."
 
I would buy the Jimmy Dean sausage rolls on occasion..nice flavor and all...but this week I noticed they had a sale on the very large size sausage rolls...and....I thought..given Mr Dean's cold relationship with Sara Lee these last few years...and the fact that he just passed...well...maybe in a few weeks, lol...
 
Remembered when Dean had a sydnicated half-hour variety show in the mid-70s where he would also do live commercials for his(then) new sausage product. He scored one last hit song in 1976 with "I.O.U" released on GRT. He was on television a lot. As a kid I remembered his daytime show that aired on CBS roughly around late 50s/early 70s before his mid-60s prime time variety show on ABC when we were first introduced to Jim Henson's "Rowlf."
 
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