JIMMY DEAN
Are these signs that might define a prolific career? Someone who's a musician, a singer, a jokester, a spoken word artist with a knack for bringing listeners to tears, a television show host and Muppet's best buddy...and a self-professed good ol' country boy...in addition to a connosieur of meat that's well-cooked and seasoned to most people's taste, making him a highly-successful businessman as a result. I'm sure there are even more phrases that describe Jimmy Ray Dean, the country music star of the 1950s through '70s who shared his name with a talented, ill-fated actor of the same generation, the difference being the latter actually had a slightly different first name (that would be James, of course). His life began in 1928 in Olton, Texas, a wide spot ... MORE ››
