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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. Here's a true 'Best Of' one... more

Jimmy Dean: Big Bad John

1-CD with 24-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns.

Here's a true 'Best Of' one of the great, innovative and most successful country stars of the Sixties. For pioneering crossover country, nothing beats Jimmy's Columbia hits like Big Bad John, PT 109,
Little Black Book, and Dear Ivan. The 26 titles on this CD also include much-requested singles and album tracks like Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette, Cajun Queen, Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight,
Gotta Travel On, and I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake. Some in stereo for the first time!

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Dean, Jimmy - Big Bad John CD 1
01 Big Bad John Jimmy Dean
02 I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake Jimmy Dean
03 Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette Jimmy Dean
04 Dear Ivan Jimmy Dean
05 To A Sleeping Beauty Jimmy Dean
06 The Cajun Queen Jimmy Dean
07 P.T. 109 Jimmy Dean
08 Walk On Boy Jimmy Dean
09 Little Bitty Big John Jimmy Dean
10 Steel Man Jimmy Dean
11 Little Black Book Jimmy Dean
12 Please Pass The Biscuits Jimmy Dean
13 Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight Jimmy Dean
14 A Day That Changed The World Jimmy Dean
15 Gotta Travel On Jimmy Dean
16 Sixteen Tons Jimmy Dean
17 Oklahoma Bill Jimmy Dean
18 Night Train To Memphis Jimmy Dean
19 Make The Waterwheel Roll Jimmy Dean
20 Lonesome Road Jimmy Dean
21 Grasshopper Mac Clain Jimmy Dean
22 Old Pappy's New Banjo Jimmy Dean
23 You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You Jimmy Dean
24 Cajun Joe Jimmy Dean
25 Nobody Jimmy Dean
26 Kentucky Means Paradise Jimmy Dean
Jimmie Dean Songwriter, Pete Graves, seems to have lived the life that he sang about. He... more
"Jimmy Dean"

Jimmie Dean

Songwriter, Pete Graves, seems to have lived the life that he sang about. He was sighted in many places and the accompanying photos showed a smiling man holding a guitar. He was in Fort Smith, Arkansas, various nightspots in Texas, the Pacific northwest, and 'Billboard' reported that he was in Lancaster, California when Bumming Around broke. "I used to rodeo around White Salmon, Washington," he told Dorothy Horstman. "I'd written a few rodeo songs prior to 'Bumming Around.' I lifted part of the lyrics from one of my rodeo songs, added a new tune and came up with 'Bumming Around' in 1946.

By the time I had a dance band, the tune was more danceable. I'm a logger now [1973], so I guess 'Bumming Around' kinda fits my life." He was the first to record Bumming Around and it appeared on 4-Star's 'X' Experimental series around 1952. 4-Star's Bill McCall saw a brighter future for the song if someone other than Graves sang it, and Dean's record appeared in August 1952, although it didn't chart until March the following year.

Whether selling country music or country sausage, Jimmy Dean (billed Jimmie on the label) seems to know what his public wants. Born Jimmy Ray Dean in Olton, Texas on August 10, 1928, he learned how to play piano and accordion from his mother. His father, G.O. Dean, was a Baptist preacher, a singer and inventor who pinned his hopes on an irrigation pump, and abandoned the family when Dean was eleven. In 1944, one year short of high school graduation, Dean enlisted in the merchant marine, and made one voyage to South America before returning to Plainview to work for an irrigation equipment company. In 1946, he was drafted and was posted to Bolling Air Force base in Washington, DC. The way that he tells it, his musical career began when one of his buddies, who played fiddle with a country band, asked him to fill in one night on accordion.

Dean decided to stay in the D.C. area after he was discharged in 1948, and probably made his recording debut on the Howington Brothers' Dub's Polka on the DC label around 1948-9. At some point in the early '50s, Jimmy Dean met Ben Adelman who operated the only studio in town. Adelman introduced him to Bill McCall at 4-Star. It was the only hit Dean would see for eight years. By Dean's account, he received a total of $35 in royalties. We'll pick up the story in 1961. And what of Pete Graves? Like Dean, he's wrinkled but still around. In 2005, he was photographed at a Cowboy Poetry festival in Columbia River, in Kennewick, Washington (state).

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Tracklist
Dean, Jimmy - Big Bad John CD 1
01 Big Bad John
02 I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake
03 Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette
04 Dear Ivan
05 To A Sleeping Beauty
06 The Cajun Queen
07 P.T. 109
08 Walk On Boy
09 Little Bitty Big John
10 Steel Man
11 Little Black Book
12 Please Pass The Biscuits
13 Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight
14 A Day That Changed The World
15 Gotta Travel On
16 Sixteen Tons
17 Oklahoma Bill
18 Night Train To Memphis
19 Make The Waterwheel Roll
20 Lonesome Road
21 Grasshopper Mac Clain
22 Old Pappy's New Banjo
23 You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
24 Cajun Joe
25 Nobody
26 Kentucky Means Paradise