BIG BAD JOHN Jimmy Dean (1961)

BIG BAD JOHN Jimmy Dean (1961) Columbia, CL 1735 Jimmy Dean (August 10, 1928 June 13, 2010) Birth name: Jimmy Ray Dean Birth place: Plainview, Texas Place of death: Varina, Virginia (at 81 years old) Per the notes written on the back of the JIMMY DEAN: BIG BAD JOHN AND OTHER FABULOUS SONGS AND TALES (Columbia LP, CL 1735) record jacket, it states: Jimmy Dean had been thinking for some time of writing a song about a Paul Bunyanlike hero. He began writing the lyrics at home, but never quite fi