"It was country music's first gold record," says Bean of the Jimmy Dean Museum. The success of the song helped give Dean the ...

Texan hitmaker Jimmy Dean is celebrated in a newly-shared clip from the 1967 archives of The Ed Sullivan Show. He performs a selection of country music favorites by other artists to mark Country ...

Besides an uncompromising work ethic, Jimmy’s mother also instilled a love of music and even taught him to play the piano. He later learned the harmonica, accordion and guitar on his own.