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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

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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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Interpret: Jimmy Dean
Album titlle: Big Bad John
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127157232
weight in Kg 0.115

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

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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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