Remembering Jimmy Dean

2020-06-13

I had a period of time I refer to as my 'am radio' days. This was prior to the advent of FM to my knowledge and it was a time for that static intertwined with music and lyrics often gotten wrong because of the audio clarity.

It was also a time for my immersion in country music, for I was my father's child and that was his genre of preference.

The music of Jimmy Dean populated this era in my life with "Big Bad John" and other components of "The Jimmy Dean Show" with it's debut of Jim Henson puppetry and all the rest of the popular schtick of the times.

Jimmy Ray Dean did the country music scene, television, acting and side business involving pork products with all the commercials ... which run to this day years after his death.

He was always pleasant and smiling and there is something to be said for that. I wish I were as pleasant and smiling as he.

He resided in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010 and died prior to being inducted that same year. He passed on this day in 2010 in Varnia, Virgina at the age of 81 years old.

Rest in peace.