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Jimmy Dean dies
« on: June 14, 2010, 10:19 »
Jimmy Dean, best known to us for the hit single 'Big bad John' has died at the age of 81. :rip:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10307181.stm
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2010, 11:32 »
Never heard of him, but :rip:
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2010, 11:44 »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx59fmP7jYE

When you can follow the link, Simon.
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2010, 12:09 »
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 15:31 »
From around 1961 I think.  I had always imagined him to be a lot older than he was when he had the hit. 

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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2010, 16:49 »
I have heard the song before.
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2010, 16:57 »
Few have escaped its clutches.  ;)
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Re: Jimmy Dean dies
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2010, 18:41 »
Strangely enough, it was on "Sounds of the Sixties" just a few weeks ago.


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