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Jimmy Dean was a multitalented country singer, TV show host, actor and entrepreneur. When a successful entertainment career wasn’t enough, he went on to create and build America’s favorite sausage company. Known for his unique way with words, Jimmy often said, “Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it what you put into it.”
Jimmy Dean was born in Plainview, Texas in 1928. Where in the blazes is Plainview, you ask? It’s a little over three hours west of Dallas. He grew up on a rural farm where he discovered his love of beautiful country mornings and making fresh sausage with his grandpa. If you’re ever in the neighborhood, do yourself a favor and check out The Jimmy Dean Museum. It’s just dandy.
Buckle up because here’s how it all began. Jimmy Dean’s love of sausage goes back to his roots, growing up on a farm in Texas and making fresh sausage with his grandfather. He absolutely loved the sights and smells and sounds of beautiful country mornings. He often described himself as the biggest morning person who ever walked the Earth (in cowboy boots, at least). Anywho, one day Jimmy was sitting in a local diner in his hometown of Plainview, Texas. He was having his usual breakfast of sausage and eggs but on this particular morning, he bit into a piece of gristle about the size of Texas. He turned to his brother Don and said, “You know, there has got to be room in this country for a good quality sausage!” The rest is history.
In 1969, he founded the Jimmy Dean Meat Company. When people asked him why he started a meat company, Jimmy often joked, "if you had ever seen my act, you would've realized that diversification was imperative.”
There’s a lot more to Jimmy Dean than just tasty sausage. He became famous through music and went on to become a charming TV personality.
Jimmy Dean’s first love was singing country music and he was pretty darn good at it. So darn good that he’s in the country music Hall of Fame and has some huge hits to this day. Go ahead, look’em up. And be sure to play his song “Big Bad John,” which topped the Billboard charts for months back in the early ’60s.
His singing success led to a TV hosting career. The Jimmy Dean Show helped put country music on the map as well as gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure. Jimmy even tried his hand at acting, starring in the Daniel Boone TV series and as a good ol’ boy millionaire in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (basically playing himself). Not too shabby for a farm boy from Texas.
Jimmy Dean was a man so committed to quality that he just couldn’t help but tell you about it. He became the plainspoken sausage spokesman who appeared in hundreds of his own commercials. Back in the day, you couldn’t turn on a TV without seeing his big ol’ grinning face delightfully musing in his charming Southern way about sausage… and life… and mornings… and sausage again. That charming wisdom such as, “Wake up like a tight pair of pants, ready to rip” and “Get yourself a large chunk of that good morning feeling” continues to inspire our company to this day.
Jimmy Dean passed away on June 13, 2010 at the age of 81. Although he is no longer with us, he left behind a heapin’ helpin’ of morning wisdom. His most famous quote of all might be, “You can’t change the direction of the wind. But you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination.” Words to live by. Especially when you add a pan full of his signature sausage.
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Founded the Jimmy Dean Breakfast Foods (sausage, bacon, sandwiches, etc.) and Sausage Company in 1969 - out of his Texas hometown, Plainview - and sold it to the Sara Lee Corporation 15 years later, in 1984. Twenty years after that, in 2004, Dean was dismissed by Sara Lee as product spokesman for his own sausage brand. The Chicago-based food products firm retains the rights to Dean's name and likeness. Even years after he passed away, his image and voice are still used in commercials for Jimmy Dean Sausage products.
Best known for his million-selling 1961 hit "Big Bad John"; the song topped both Billboard magazine's country and Hot 100 charts. On the Billboard country charts, Dean had one other No. 1 hit: 1965's "The First Thing Every Morning and the Last Thing Every Night". Other major country hits in his career included "P.T. 109" (1962, based on the World War II sinking of John F. Kennedy 's torpedo boat) and the million-selling ode of thanks to his mother, "I.O.U." (1976).
Was working at the Desert Inn hotel when he was cast as Willard Whyte in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Whyte was clearly modeled after Howard Hughes , who owned the Desert Inn and was therefore, by extension, Dean's employer at the time.
Several trivia and source books, including Billboard's Top Forty Book, mistakenly gave his birth name as Seth Ward. Actually, Seth Ward is the tiny unincorporated community outside Plainview where Dean was born.
When his "Big Bad John" was first released, it ended with the words "at the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man". It was changed on later releases to "at the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man".
During the run of his TV show, Dean was offered 40% ownership of Jim Henson's Muppets Inc., but he declined because that he felt he didn't have anything to do with Henson's work and it was unfair to profit from the puppeteer's labor. It was a decision of conscience Dean never regretted making.
Release of his autobiography, "Jimmy Dean's Own Story: Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham" by Jimmy and his wife, 'Donna Meade' Dean. [2004]
Lives in Varina, Virginia...just outside of Richmond. [October 2004]
One of his stranger "talents" was being able to fold his own ear into a neat little ball, which would then pop out on its own after several seconds. He demonstrated this "talent" on his TV show.
In 1963, he became Johnny Carson's first guest host on "The Tonight Show".
His last theatrical feature film appearance would be top billing in "Big Bad John" (1990), which was inspired by his big crossover hit song.
Professional wrestler William Desmond Goodman wrestled under the name "Big Bad John" after the popularity of Jimmy Dean's hit song. He is best remembered for doing the "rubber legs" routine after being struck by his opponent.
Born on the same date as Eddie Fisher.
When fans ask me for advice, here's what I tell them: "Grin once in a while; it's good for you!"
Anybody in any business who thinks they can't be replaced should do this: stick their hand in a bucket of water, then pull it out, and see how big a hole it leaves.
[on ex-bandmate and good friend Roy Clark] Ultimately, I had to drop him from the Texas Wildcats because he just wasn't reliable enough. At the same time, however, I had no doubt in my mind that he'd soon be among the biggest names in country and western. Sure enough, when I went about getting Roy on my show 8 years later, it was a frustrating process to track him down. I was like, "Roy, I can understand *you* having an unlisted phone number, but *your agent*?"
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Jimmy Dean, the musician, actor and entrepreneur, was instrumental in the mainstreaming of country music, a genre that now ranks as the most popular in the United States but which, back in the 1960s, was accorded little respect in the mass media. Jimmy Dean had a #1 hit in the US and England with his song "Big Bad John," which established his fame, a fame that continues to this day due to his long stint as a spokesman for "Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage," a company he founded and then sold to Consolidated Foods in 1984. He continued on as the pitchman for the eponymous brand for 20 years. Jimmy Dean, a distant cousin of the actor James Dean , was born Jimmy Ray Dean on August 10, 1928 in Plainview, Texas. He took to the life of a professional singer after serving in the U.S. Air Force during the late 1940s. Dean began building his reputation as a musician touring with his band, The Texas Wildcats, which featured Roy Clark as lead guitarist. In 1953, he scored his first hit, "Bummin' Around." Dean landed a gig as the host of a TV program in the Washington D.C. market, "Town and Country Time." (The District of Columbia has in many ways always been a Southern town.) Dean was a promoter of rising country acts, and such top country singers as Clark and Patsy Cline got their starts with Dean. (He eventually fired Clark but later promoted his career.) Dean subsequently moved to New York after signing with Columbia Records, where he hosted a TV variety show for the CBS network. In 1961, his song "Big Bad John" went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and won him the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. Several of his subsequent songs charted in the Top 40, and he scored a Top 10 hit in 1962 with a song commemorating President John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat, "PT 109." Because of his affability and his burgeoning popularity, he occasionally was booked to guest-host "The Tonight Show." ABC offered him a variety show in the mid-1960s, and Dean used it as a forum to present country music on his terms, as a mainstream entertainment. His show offered the first major TV exposure to a number of country singers, including George Jones , Charlie Rich , and Buck Owens . His show also introduced the first Muppet, Jim Henson 's Rowlf the Dog. Aside from a featured part as a Howard Hughes -like billionaire in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) (Dean said he was offered the role on the basis of his having had a #1 hit with "Big John" in Britain, which surprised him as it had been a decade before), Dean has mostly stuck to his music and the business he founded in 1969, "Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage." The TV commercials featuring the very likable Dean were the best advertising the new brand could have had, and it became #1 in its product category. In the fall of 2004, Jimmy Dean published his autobiography, "30 Years of Sausage, 50 Years of Ham." He semi-retired and lived with his second wife, the former singer Donna Meade Dean until his death in 2010.
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August 10 ,
1928
in Plainview, Texas, USA
June 13 ,
2010
in Varina, Virginia, USA (undisclosed)
Donna Meade
( 27 October 1991 -
13 June 2010) (his death)
Mary Sue Wittauer
( 11 July 1950 -
30 October 1990) (divorced)
(3 children)
Dean, Garry
Dean, Robert
Dean, Connie
Dean, Ruth
Dean, George Otto
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