R.I.P. - Jimmy Dean

[Peshkwe]

Jimmy Dean, singer and sausage dude has passed at 81yrs:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ry?id=10906868

Country music artist Jimmy Dean, who topped the charts in 1961 with the crossover hit "Big Bad John," and later became a sausage entrepreneur, has died, police said on Monday.

Dean, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died on Sunday evening at his home in Varina, Virginia, Lieutenant R.J. Clark of the Henrico County Police Department said. He was 81.

I met him once in the Detroit airport. Nice guy even after I scolded him for leaving his bags sitting there while he wandered around.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: R.I.P. - Jimmy Dean

Pigs everywhere are dancing, but he sure made some tasty meats out of them.

I'll always remember his Big bad John as the first song that made me cry when it was popular back in the days when quality meant something.