Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81

[Warpy]

Source: Houston Chronicle

RICHMOND, Va. — Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81.

His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband died at their Henrico County, Va., home.

She told The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was still functioning well, so his death came as a shock. She said he was eating in front of the television. She left the room for a time and came back and he was unresponsive. She said he was pronounced dead at 7:54 p.m.

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[SocialistLez]

1. Loved his sausage. NT

[Hissyspit]

5. My fav is the chocolate-covered sausage biscuit on a stick.

[XOKCowboy]

7. His show also had the first Muppet on it..

Rowlf. Thanks to Blue_In_AK for reminding me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dHo7sIIb4

[Hissyspit]

9. Wow, I'm too young to remember that.

First I remember the Muppets was Sesame Street.

I do remember the Jimmy Dean Show, though, but in later years.

[DearAbby]

10. I remember Rowlf and Jimmy

as a kid, I loved that show.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I did, too.

Jimmy Dean always seemed like such a good-hearted soul. I don't know if he actually WAS, but he certainly gave off that aura.

[bitchkitty]

13. Jesus! You eat that shit?

I mean, I eat Twinkies so I understand the appeal of junk food, but chocolate chip sausage?

[Xenotime]

14. And...this is why your fat.

[bitchkitty]

17. My fat? My fat what?

Only one part, rather two parts of me, that could be considered plump. Aside from the girls, I have trouble keeping weight on rather than off.

[Hissyspit]

20. No. I don't. It was a joke.

There's no such thing as the chocolate-covered sausage biscuits on a stick.

I have made chocolate chip pancakes in the past, but I make them from scratch and add oatmeal. And I never rolled them around a sausage.

I eat long-term low-calorie diet as a rule.

[bitchkitty]

22. Thank God - I thought there really was such a thing. n/t

[Yeahyeah]

2. He put the ham in ham tycoon.

He could pull your heartstrings and clog your heart arteries all at the same time.

[IndianaGreen]

3. He had a folksy and very entertaining TV show

I used to watch it as a kid, in those old days when families used to gather in the living room to watch the only TV in the house.

[Bitwit1234]

4. They also choose his song for the new song of Virginia

[JVS]

6. I remember how he brought back the 16 oz package after a guy complained about the 12 oz bullshit.

[Seneca]

8. Save money! Save money! Yeah, save money!

Fuck, I want to eat goddammit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4RNb3tt0LM

[PDittie]

12. dupe

[Greyskye]

15. Soylent Dean

:hide:

[guitar man]

16. RIP Jimmy

:(

Big Bad John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx59fmP7jYE

[NNN0LHI]

18. I bet his wife Paula who does that cooking show is heartbroken

Not the right one?

Don

[indepat]

19. We had been transferred to Plainview shortly before his sausage factory opened and were privileged

to meet him shorty thereafter. :P

[mitchum]

21. Jimmy Dean singing about JFK and PT109

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=OV2Ih82w2KY