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 Bunyan-like hero. He began writing the lyrics at home, but never quite fi