Rapper FIRST time REACTION to BIG BAD JOHN ~ Jimmy Dean! What is this...
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Rapper FIRST time REACTION to BIG BAD JOHN ~ Jimmy Dean! What is this...
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Two songs I think you would like for their story telling are: "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford (another coal miner song) and "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" (a pool hall story) by Jim Croche
and then "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" by Croce
Donna Fargo also did a re-make of you don't mess around with Jim! Lord, she was a while back LOL My favorite song of hers NO ONE has heard of! "Forever is as far as I could go". I had her 8-track and it was the very last song on the last track. Talk about having to wait a while to hear it hahaha
I second Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Earnie Ford. There is a video of him performing it during a tribute to him in his later years, hosted by Dinah Shore. It gives you a chance to see those snapping fingers. And the fists. Not to mention the lyrics, which Pegasus should appreciate.
Don't forget the song about the last presidential election.........."Send In The Clowns".
@@d.t.r.8036 Croce!! Be still my heart...
He was an actor, singer and founder of the sausage company.
Right he was in a James Bond movie can't the title.
He was a regular on the Daniel Boon show when i was a kid in the 60's.
@@ff13enlno31tleb "Diamonds are Forever". He played a gazillionaire called Willard Whyte.
@@ff13enlno31tleb Wasn't it Diamonds are Forever? I thought he was the guy who played a Howard Hughes type character.
He was in Diamonds are Forever.
Check out Roger Miller, another storyteller singer who sang "King of the Road", "Dang Me", "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd".
King of the road, yes, yes, Yes!
The Statler Brothers would be good too. "Counting Flowers on the Wall", "You can't have your Kate and Edith Too", "Ruthless", "Class of '57".
Love King of the Road!!!!
England Swings
Love Roger Miller
Welcome to my childhood where we quickly learned from songs like this that real heroes don't own or wear capes
Which is also the reason you should try listening to the Dion DiMucci (of "Dion and the Belmonts" fame) song "Abraham, Martin, and John." The most poignant song (about the civil rights leaders of the 1960's) ever sung.
Listening to old country is like going to a movie. They were great storytellers…
He had his own tv variety show. My late husband loved this song because he was 6’6” and was named John.
I see Roger Miller has been suggested, might I suggest Johnny Horton.
Sink The Bismarck,
Battle Of New Orleans,
Johnny Freedom,
Comanche The Brave Horse,
North To Alaska,
Jim Bridger,
And so many more.
My late mum was so happy when she found a cassette tape of Johnny Horton’s hits.
Johnny Horton was so great!
Johnny Horton's Noth to Alaska and Comanche the Brave Horse were theme songs to movies from him. North to Alaska is a great ear worm. Comanche is about a real horse and true story,
I was named after his song,You fought all the way Johnny Reb.
Battle of New Orleans has to be rewritten to "down the Mississippi to the Gulf of America."
Original ending lyrics were "...At the bottom of this pit lies one HELL of a man." But it was censored and he had to rerecord "..a Big, Big man!"
Ji!my Dean started the food company. His voice is still used today for the commercials. Jimmy was popular and had his own variety show for a few years. Jimmy Dean, Johnny Cash, and Temnessee Ernie Ford were contemporaries and all were great at story telling. Johnny Cash: "A Boy Named Sue". Ernie Ford: "16 Tons"
Jim Croce came along later and also had great story telling msongs: "Bad Bad Leroy Brown". " Don't Mess Around With Jim". Jerry Reed is another great story teller: "Amos Moses" "She Got The Goldmine, I Got The Shaft". " East Bound and Down"...which is from the movie Smokey and the Bandit.( Jerry Reed acted in this fun movie with Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields).
BIG BAD LEROY BROWN BY JIM GROCE from THE 70s
Amos Moses is a great song!
Don't forget Tom T Hall
Also check out Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons. It's a good one too.
Geoff Castellucci does a terrific version of 16 tons, also. Did Geoff do Big, Bad, John?" I feel like he did. Check him out, BP, he's the "earth-shaking" bass" from Voice Play.
And Merle Travis who wrote and had a big hit with Sixteen Tons years before Ford masterfully covered it.
I'm almost 70 and this is something I heard when I was young
There’s mines here in Eastern Kentucky that are closed up with the men inside.
I saw an interview of coal miners from back in the 1960’s. Two miners sitting side by side, one white the other a black man. The white man said we go in the mines different colors and the black man replied we all come out the same color, black!! They both giggled like school girls. In the mines you’re all the same and work is hard. I’ve never forgot that . That’s the way it should be.
RIP to my father in law daddy crushed to death in a Harlan KY mine. He left behind 6 boys.
@ my great uncle was killed at Ely’s Holler in Knox County by a roof fall.
That’s where I’m from Knox Co. We love Harlan Co. My Dad’s family logged up at Cranks Creek back in the late 40’s. His Dad and all his brothers worked there and his Mom was camp cook. Daddy was just a little boy. We still go back there every year. Daddy said it just has a special place in his heart because all his family was together there working. Later Daddy stripped coal in Harlan.
Look up Tom T. Hall’s Trip to Hyden about Hurricane Creek mine
@@pamwatterson3845 I have. Tom T Hall was wonderful and I loved his songs, so real.
Jimmy Dean started the food company
Jimmy and Johnny were contemporaries.
The only sausage I buy
Same here. Even though it is 14 oz instead of 16.😂
They still use his voice in their commercials
His grandmother told him to not to put all his eggs in one bask. Sausage was his backup career.
Rap didn't invent the spoken lyric, A lot of these old country songs had spoken lyrics. Johnny Horton had a couple hits like this, the biggest one being The Battle of New Orleans. Its fun watching you discover these old songs, the more you discover you will see that most music trends are cyclic.
Oh, PLEASE do Battle of New Orleans. Everyone has to hear this song at least once.
north to Alaska. by Johnny horton..is one to recommend also
Walter Brennen, Ol' Rivers.
Can't forget Hot Rod Lincoln th-cam.com/video/MBUfNxfc2w4/w-d-xo.html
I think of the square dance callers. I always wonder if they could have been a pioneer in rap without knowing it.
Jimmy Dean.. (Big Bad John pt.2) "The Cajun Queen"1962 is a response to this song.
My father’s named John. He’s 6’ 2” and 285 (in his prime). I thought he was the strongest man in the world. This song reminds me of him.
Back in the 80s I was Golfing in Lexington, KY with friends. A rain shower came up and we headed to the clubhouse which had a veranda wrapped around it. We were there for about a minute when a golfcart pulled up and who jumped out but Jimmy Dean. As we stood under the porch, he started telling stories with a few jokes thrown in and had us belly laughing for about 15 minutes. When the rain stopped, he jumped on his golfcart and off he went to finish his round. He was an extremely nice man, and I'll never forgot how genuine he was. By the way he had a huge golf bag with the Jimmy Dean Sausage logo running down the side.
His roots are in Kentucky, but he lived out his years in Virginia. My grandmother's maiden name was Dean, and told us that he was a distant cousin. His branch of Deans left KY for Texas, but the rest of them stayed in the western KY area. There's even a small town that was named for the Deans.
This song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 within 2 months of its release. He had a great voice and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show many times promoting country music.
The line that always got me was "They started back down." minutes after escaping death in the same mine. Shows spirit
My childhood music, still love it
I know it’s just a song but when I’m in my feels, like now, it makes me cry
My big brother and I sang this song as young kids. We were raised on an island where you can't dig more than 3 feet before hitting water, yet somehow, bro became a hard rock miner. Go figure 🤔
Big bro died at 53 in 2004 so I admit to shedding a tear along with ya over this one.
Haven’t heard this in decades! Thanks for the reaction ❤
King of the Road by Roger Miller is a great tune sort of from this era.
Randy Travis did a cover of - king Of the Road. It was nicely done.
I remember as a kid being so excited when this came on the radio. Great song and reaction. Johnny Horton, Battle of New Orleans is another from this era that's also fantastic
Yes!
Watch the animated lego version.
This is sucha great storytellin' song, I think you'd like "El Paso" from Marty Robbins, recorded back in 1959. 40!
Yes!!! I've mentioned that a couple of times lol
@@YesByBeading Let's keep it up, hahaha!
@@pyroishere ... sure thing 😁
“El Passo”is the first part of a trilogy of songs that tells a very interesting story of reincarnation. The second song is “Feleena”, telling her back story and the incident from her perspective. The third song is “El Passo City”. This last tells the modern day story of a man who flies over El Passo in a plane. The lyrics imply this a flight he has taken more than once. He is strangely drawn to, and yet terrified of this city that he has never been to, and a place called Rosa’s Cantina. He reveals that he has had dreams of dying there, and of a beautiful dark haired Mexican girl, and he wonders if it is possible that he may have lived another life.
Don't forget The Master's Call by Marty Robbins
Tennessee stud and 16 Tons were also from this era. 2 really good songs...plus pt 2 and 3 of Big John
Stud? Did you mean Tennessee Ernie Ford?
@@greglegakis4177The song Tennessee Stud was sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford & so was 16 Tons.
Amos Moses by Jerry Reed is a great story.
Great song. Mom was from Georgia. We were raised in these artists but in Connecticut. Also love the older rock groups. You play some great music.❤️
"Raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries. Named him after a man-of-the-cloth; called him Amos Moses."
Dottie West wrote a sequel to the song in the same year about the Cajun Queen and from her perspective. The Jimmy Dean created a sequel that was more tall tell themed from the Cajun Queens perspective coming to find John. Then a third song was made by Dean from John’s son perspective.
I much end the song
Pegasus, don't ever be sorry for having trouble with your words, you're probably thinking faster than your tongue can form the words, we all do it hun ❤
Yes and Jimmy Dean started the sausage company.
Now that you're dipping into stories, how about some historical stories? JOHNNY HORTON is a legend who sings about legends. Start with The Battle of New Orleans; Sink the Bismark; North to Alaskà.
Very good suggestion :)
Jimmy Dean was an amazing singer. This one always made me cry.
As a father of girls you would love Jimmys version of To A Sleeping Beauty. Jimmy Dean also sang. He had his own variety show in the 60s.
Yes that's the same jimmy Dean, one of the first entertainers that spread out to other industries.
Ya! Sausages!
He is a good singer and had a variety show in the early days of television.
Listening to the words gives you the shivers and very emotional. How bravery comes from the most unexpected wats. 😢😢
Now that's a rabbit hole to travel down‼ The flip side of the 45rpm record was "I Won't Go Huntin' with You Jake (But I'll Go Chasin' Wimmin"), another treasure. He also did a song called "To A Sleeping Beauty" check that one out as well. Yes, he is the same Jimmy Dean associated with the Pure Pork Sausage. "Big Bad John" was also cover by The Charlie Daniels Band with The Oak Ridge Boys providing vocals for the "Big Bad John" part of the song. Jimmy Dean also played a part in the James Bond Movie "Diamonds Are Forever" playing the part of millionaire Willard Whyte, owner of the Whyte House Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas.
I haven't heard that song (side 2) in years!!
You'd also like Bad bad Leroy Brown from Jim Croce
Yes!! This🔼
The man baby! 😎
I like Big Jim Walker. 😊
Or You don't mess around with Jim!
This style of American music story telling is called a Ballad.
There was a Grammy for spoken word back in the 50s, I believe into the 60s. A man, think his first name was Dave, won often reciting poetry to bongo drums. Some actors like Walter Brennan, won it for telling old west stories. Now, I've talked myself into some research.
I always want to cry when I hear Walter Brennan's Old Rivers. love that song.
"Story-telling songs" were very popular back in the 50's and 60's. A lot of artists, of all genres, put out these kinds of tunes.
Jimmy is still part of our lives with his voice on Sausage commercials and his influence in early television (he had his own show and George Carlin was a very young regular on it) as well as his hit country songs. 70 years later he is still being heard.
I love this. Yes , He owned Jimmy Deans sauage. He was a friend of my Dad. This brought back so many memories. Thanks .
One huge hit from the early 60s that's a lot like rap is Chantilly Lace from The Big Bopper. Johnny and Jimmy were friends and contemporaries of each other
The big bopper never made it to the 60s
Johnny Horton is sort of similar to Jimmy Dean. Check out 'Sink the Bismarck' and 'North to Alaska' by Johnny.
Hank Williams Jr sang the best version of North to Alaska.
The late Jimmy Dean was a savvy businessman - singing, acting and founder of a profitable, still extant company.
He became a national television personality starting on CBS in 1957. He rose to fame for his 1961 country music crossover hit into rock and roll with "Big Bad John" and his 1963 television series The Jimmy Dean Show gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national exposure with his character, Rowlf.
And to give you the idea of the kind of man Jimmy Dean was, when Jim Henson started the Muppets he offered Dean a fairly large stake in the company (Something like 40%.) Jimmy Dean refused saying he hadn't really earned it, and it didn't feel right. Later on in life, he stated that he never regretted that decision.
Bro, I give you a world of credit for reviewing this song. My dad was a country music man so I've heard this a hundred times. It's a great story,
Sad song. Remember as a little girl. I’ve been thinking about this song after watching a rescued horse they call Big John! He’s 20 Hands! One of the biggest horses in the world!🎉❤
Colby Crew Rescue got big John, he's retired has a girlfriend and a son little john.
Even as a kid I really liked this song. Made me sad then like it does now.
BP, I’m amazed at the amount of music you’ve tapped into the past year and a half or so. That’s a lot of great music in a short amount of time. It’s been a fun ride seeing your reactions. Keep it going man.
God bless you all.
Jimmy Sean was also an actor on the Daniel Boone tv show for awhile.
That era had so many great artists.
Another unexpected storyteller was Loreen Green who made the story of Ringo. It was a great song/story.
Lorne Green not Loreen Green.
Lorne Greene. Papa on Bonanza
I was raised on country music as a child in the 70's and this brings back those early memories of 4-7 years old.
Jimmy Dean and Johnny Cash were contemporaries. Yes the Jimmy Dean Sausage co0mpany was him. Jimmy Dean was also the first man to introduce Country Music to Network T.V. But the Networks did not think Blue Jeans and straw hats were going to make it so they put all these country stars in After Six Formal wear. That's right Tuxedos. But the music was Country. Also The Jimmy Dean show introduced The First Nationally televised Muppet. Jim Henson of Sesame Street Fame caught his first nationjal exposure on The Jimmy Dean Show. A Big Dog named Rolph. The Song Big John is not the end of the story. There is a follow up hit where a beautiful Woman, A Cajun Queen comes up from New Orleans looking for her man, Big John. She goes down into the mine and Kisses him and breaths new life into her man. and Jimmy Dean ends the song with , "Never underestimate the Power of a Woman." Those of us who grew up listening the Jimmy Dean and Johnny Cash, know these songs by heart. Well done. 'Boy names Sue' should be on your list.
th-cam.com/video/djpDAnUATlg/w-d-xo.html "the sequel"
Always makes me tear up.
This takes me back to riding in my dads truck...listening to AM country...64..65...maybe 66...i was born in 62.
Jimmy Dean was in The James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever. He play the owner of a casino a billionaire, like Howard Hughes. You can hear his voice in the Jimmy Dean breakfast food commercials.
There's alternate lyrics to the final verse sometimes. Instead of "At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man" the marble slab reads, "At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man".
I remember this song from my childhood, I was about 5 years old when it was popular. Great song, great reaction.❤️✌🏻🎶
Their are a part 2 and part 3 of Big John another good story telling song is Big Iron by Marty Robbins
Is this the same Big Iron Johnny cash covered? I really like that song. Great story telling there as well.
I never heard part 3!!!!
Marty Robbins has a lot of great storytelling songs: Big Iron, El Paso, The Master's Call, just to name a few
My father in laws loved this song and shared that love with our oldest daughter. He passed away Feb of 2024, and she now drives his old 96’Ford diesel truck that she’s named Big John in her papa’s honor.
I met him in the mid-80s while photographing a celebrity golf tournament. After taking his picture, he asked to see my camera. He then proceeded to take numerous blurry photos of me. He said that for most of his life people had always photographed him, but that he had never photographed any of those people back.
Jimmy Dean was an actor musician who was really affable and had an engaging Quality. You can see him in reruns of things like the Daniel Boone show from the 1960s 70s and he did a lot of stuff where, yeah, he sings. His timeframe was pretty comparable to Johnny Cash. His company took off because of his personality and people just liked him and trusted him!
Makes me think of my PAPAW, he was a w.virginia coal miner 6'3" named John
One night in the 60's, my brother called the radio station and requested this song. It was one of his favorites. We were so happy when the DJ played it!
Big Bad John was a superhero.
Funny you mention John Henry and Johnny Cash in the same video. Because Johnny Cash sang a song about John Henry. ''Jon Henry's Hammer '' i think is the name of it. I haven't heard it in over 30 years. I remember it was a cool song though. I have a story about Jimmy Dean. I'll make it quick. Jimmy Dean dated my mom once before she met my dad. So every time i hear his name i say , ''Could have been my daddy sausage'' .
Also, Little Jimmy Dickens sang the song John Henry.....
Johnny Cash's first hit was released in MAY 1955, "Hey Porter". Jimmy Dean's first hit release date was 1953, "Bumming Around". They were contemporaries, and they knew each other, appearing on TV together.
Jimmy Dean was first a singer in the 50s/60s, then came acting. Jimmy Dean's Sausage came after the fame -- all one in the same. Another singer back during the same time period was Tennessee Ernie Ford. I highly recommend you react to Ford's huge hit "Sixteen Tons". There are quite a few story-telling songs from that era. These songs may be old, but I never get tired of hearing them. They take me back to the music my parents loved listening to during my childhood. Thanks for choosing this song and another great reaction. ✌💙✌
Hearing this song reminds me of my Daddy. I haven't heard it for decades and I'm surprised at the lump in my throat. We had this record when I was a little girl and the variety shows of the day included these artists doing these songs that told epic stories that were like small movies. Yes - the days of black and white TV.
May I respectfully suggest a triad of story songs along a common plot. All by Marty Robbins. (1) El Paso. (2) Feleena. (3) El Paso City. Enjoy ... I hope you do!
I'm crying. I'll be 63 in a week and this song's made me cry since I was a little kid. I loved this and other similar songs.
Someone who would save everyone... that's everything. And if you like this song you might also enjoy a movie called the war with Kevin costner, Mare Winningham and Elijah Wood when he was about nine years old. There are other important children in the movie, and there are something special to know about some of them, but I won't tell it here. I LOVE THAT MOVIE
Funny you should mention Mare Winningham. I was a background actor in one of her films, The Hallmark Hall Of Fame presentation of Love Is Never Silent.
My scene was outdoors in Gastown, Vancouver. In-between takes, she kept staring at me, and the director had to call her several times to get her attention. ❤
Love that movie. It touches my heart so much & have watched it several times. Mare Winngham is a very good actress.@visaman
Aw! That is such a sweet story! I like her so much I always figured I would like her in person, she seems very real.
Oh and I love that movie too, Love Is Never Silent!
Love your reactions! 9 times out of 10 you totally get the songs. Watch your channel daily and love to see you exposing thousands to wonderful talent and music throughout the decades. We can’t let the younger generations not get to hear music history, that would be a tragedy. Thanks for the platform!
4:36 Wasnt John Henry the one about the big guy working on the railroad that died in a competition with a steam engine machine? ANd he won too but it cost him his life if I remember right.
Yes sir
One of the great songs that help teach what it is to be a man.
Awe my daddy sang me this when I was a little girl! Wooh the memories are rushing in! I would cry everytime!!❤ Tennessee
Johnny Cash 1932-2003, his first big hit was I Walk The Line in 1956. Jimmy Dean 1928-2010, Big Bad John was his first big hit in 1961. So Johnny Cash's music career started earlier and lasted longer (and turned out bigger) than Jimmy's, but they were country music contemporaries.
Jimmy had his own TV variety show from 1963 to 1966. One of the Jimmy Dean Show's regulars was Rowlf the Dog, who was the first Jim Henson muppet (yes, THAT Jim Henson, even before Kermit the frog) to reach national stardom.
When I lived in the PNW there was a custom yacht company that was building a huge yacht for Jimmy Dean.
Love Jimmy! Hugs and love Pegasus!❤😊❤
You know, there has to be some truth in this story.
All the best.
Cheers.
Jimmy dean was also in "007 Dimonds are Forever" on some Jimmy Dean commercials they sill use his image and voice. The music in the background is big john
I always get the chills hearing this song. I remember it from when I was a child.
Me too
Man oh man. If you like this you will LOVE Johnny Horton. Huge historical story teller. "Battle of New Orleans" and "Sink the Bismark" were two of his biggest hits... oh and "North to Alaska" and "Johnny Reb".
Love Johnny Reb
My father and much of the family on that side were coal miners in WV in the 50s and 60s. Songs like this and 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford were real. My first cousin was killed when he was reparing some equipment underground and it shifted and crushed him. My Dad did the same job on another shift, and mom made him find another job and get out of the mines. The Bluefield station carried The Grand Ole Opre on Saturday evenings and all these performers and more were on there. They had both kinds of music, Country and Western.
I read the other commenters and no one mentioned he was also a comedian. One of the spoken word singers besides Jimmy that I always liked was Tom T. Hall. His Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine was a song that always brought a smile when I was little. My spouse said Sneaky Snake was a funny one.
This was my favorite song when I was 8 yo. I cried everytime. ❤
One of my favorite all time too. I am almost 63 years old, and sitting here teary eyed, because it still gets to me.
Teddy Bear by Red Sovine, please!
YES!!!
I’ve loved this song since I was a kid in the early 70’s. Another favorite of mine that Jimmy Dean did was a Christmas song called My Christmas Room. It’s beautiful and a great message!❤ He’s the Jimmy Dean Sausage king!
Great writing in this song. “Grabbed a sagging timber and he let out with a groan and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone. Big John. And with a mighty shove, then a miner yelled out there’s a light up above, 20 men scrambled from a would be grave, now there’s only one left down there to save, Big John.” It paints a picture for you like a movie of these miners down in the ground toiling away with their pickaxes. The sound they use throughout the song that sounds like a pickaxe makes the images in your head believable, you feel like your there and then they describe the collapse of the mine and Big John grabbing a sagging timber and getting underneath it and shoving it upward as he stood up to make an opening so his fellow miners could get out but he could only hold that weight for so long and before they could get the equipment to go back down and shore it up so Big John could let go, his strength failed and the mine collapsed on him, leaving him the lone dead man. He knew he was a dead man but figured if he could save 20 by sacrificing himself then it was worth it! What an awesome story! ❤
Another song that was a sequel to this song was the Cajun Queen! It’s a fun song, you should take a listen!
Jimmy Dean's family was in agriculture in Plainview Texas. Jimmy had a long career recording and he did sing but he had a narrative style of show. He had his own variety show in the 60s plus his sausage company. Tom T. Hall is another story teller like this. He was also a contemporary of Johnny Cash. Many other artists are from the area such as Waylon Jennings from Littlefield, Buddy Holley and Mac Davis from Lubbock, Natalie Maines of the Chicks from Lubbock, Don Williams from Floydada and Bob Wills who settled in Turkey.
Brings me back to my childhood when my dad played this song on 45s.
Late 60s.
I used to tell my sons, years ago, that this was the 1st rap song. They always laughed at me and dismissed me.😂
I first heard this in 78, I was eight and my mom had the album, we listened to it a lot, a truly great story!
Sacrificing your life for others is very, very common in war. All wars!
Grew up with this song. Love it. My dad used to sing it to us in the car and slap his thigh in time. Good memories.
Jimmy Dean had his first hit in 1953 and Johnny Cash in 1955
Yep, still makes me cry. This was the number 1 song the year I was born, 1961. I can't place one now, but I think Jimmy Dean had other popular songs. I know he did some acting too. I remember him on TV, and yes, it was black & white I believe. Thank you, BP. Appreciate you man.
You need to listen to
Teddy Bear
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Redd Sovine
Woodie Guthrie, way back in the '30's, did a thing called Talking Union Blues. Peter, Paul and Mary ( the folk singers ) did a live rap version of it in the '80's.
Yes. Jimmy Dean owned the company that made Jimmy Dean saugage.
The original version said "At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man" but in that era it created a stir and they changed the words to "At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man".
Jimmy Dean and Johnny Cash were contemporaries. Both had successful country music TV shows. You would enjoy Johnny Cash's The Legend of John Henry. This is a coal miner's song and my daddy loved it. He worked in the coal mines out of high school and one night a roof fell trapping him under a big rock and killing his buddy. Daddy was rescued but quit the mines and went off to college where he worked his way to a degree. This is the Jimmy Dean Sausage Man and although he had some really big hits I think he became so successful (and rich) selling sausage that in his later years he recorded less and less.
Check out the part two of this song, The Cajun Queen