We need more Jimmy Deans on this world, and on TV

"Screw TV; let's make sausages!"

whoa what a decent authentic heartfelt rant. that is a tv PERSONALITY.

Classic! People don’t talk like this anymore. Kind words, honesty always is the way to go

God bless him for standing his ground in this situation. Of course he was back in the air by the mid-1960s and better than ever.

He got his show back a few years later.

Jimmy Dean was truly something else he was truly one of the most amazing and interesting people ever to live in the world. I love you Jimmy Dean may you Rest In Peace.❤😭

There are very few people that could look into a camera and you believed that the person believed in what they were saying and selling--Jimmy Dean was one of those people.

This show was probably broadcast live. Otherwise, Jimmy Dean's comments probably would have been edited-out of the tape. But a few years later, Jimmy Dean would have even greater success as a recording artist and a prime-time variety show that was moderately successful for three years.

Jimmy Dean was a living legend. Jim Henson and the Muppets got their start thanks to Jimmy Dean. Jim Heson brought his puppet Rolf the dog on and that dog and Jimmy were then always together.m

Back in the days when my hubby's family (TN natives) only got 3 channels ( if that, being extremely rural) and my mama (So. IL native, So. CA transplant) was still very embarrassed by her poor, country roots, we were completely unaware of Mr. Jimmy Dean's musical and TV pioneer legacy or his efforts to showcase our 'Southern'/Country/Rural heritage and contributions that do so enrich our American culture. Bless Mr. Jimmy Dean for trying to give country folk a renewed sense of pride and for attempting to give us a place in the new medium of television! We were but children, then, but now, with the rebroadcast of the absolutely DELIGHTFUL 'The Jimmy Dean Show', on RFDTV, we can honestly say (to paraphrase), 'In the infancy of television, there went a BIG, BIG MAN!' MelJ

We sent in 5 soap wrappers bc that was what we had in our linen closet, plus grandma's. Didn't help, which sux bigtime! Miss Jimmy Dean and Rowlf. They were great! RIP Jimmy and Jim. Thanx so so so much, gentlemen, for the magic, music and memories.

The great Jimmy Dean ! This guy was one of the best .

I remember this. I was only 4 in 1959 and loved his show.

Great American, Grew up poor, succeeded , guitar piano accordion .. Actor" Diamonds are Forever"Wrote " Big Bad John"

I was sad when his show ended. I cried so hard.

this took a lot of courage for jimmy dean to break those rules and say what he said in this video, i am very surprised that somebody at the tv studio cbs just didnt push a button or whatever they do to take him off the air and put on another show for the remainder of his scheduled broadcast time, if somebody tried this now on broadcast television i am sure they would be almost instantly cut off,,beleave me i agree with jimmy dean and i wish that somebody at cbs would had listened to him and his tv audience and not those stupid neilson rateings, i always did say the rateings are rigged

What I notice is how polite and well-poised this audience is. They neither applaud loudly or groan collectively when he makes his announcement. Today they would be screaming and whooping all through his remarks like a bunch of damned savgaes.

And a wonderful Country Boy he was!

Wow, this is emotionally wrenching.

THANKs. Loved it.remember his shows. Saw him in 1973..in restaurant in Nashville areal SWEET HEART.

Sort of an Andy-of-Mayberry, down-home way of confronting the big boys. I wonder how many did mail in soap wrappers to the address given (pre-zip code era). I also wonder if the network even batted an eyelash; they surely wouldn't these days. Jimmy Dean (I believe once called America's Favorite Son) was one likeable and very talented individual. Love a great many of his recordings. The world needs more like him (and in a hurry, please). R.I.P. Favorite Son. 12/2018

Early television.....nothin' better.

Jimmy Dean was in a television drama that began with him and other men in a prison bus...right now I can't remember much else, except that his performance in it was indelible, and I never forgot how amazing he was in this drama. He had a very bright light. He popped off the screen.

Jimmy Dean, Andy Griffith & Pat Boone...the most brilliant pitchmen of all time.

Y'know, it's weird. I keep coming back to this video every so often. Not because Jimmy Dean isn't great or anything (he absolutely was), but because he sounds so much like my grandpa. He was born close enough to where Jimmy's from that they have almost identical dialects. My grandpa used to sing "Big Bad John" to me all the time, since he died nearly 20 years ago, listening to fellas like Jimmy are the closest I can get to hearing my grandpa's voice anymore. Thank you for posting this, it means a lot to hear that old North Texan/Okie accent.

Bless his heart. I love Jimmy Dean. His music is fun to listen to and I loved the character Josh Clements he played in Daniel Boone. Did they actually cancel the show after that? Those rat finks CBS

Jimmy one of the greatest country singers miss him very much

i bought the soap and mailed the wrapper in ....

I went on Google, learned that Jimmy Dean had several TV shows between 1957 and 1975. He had Morning shows, afternoon shows, and several music / variety shows.

R. I. P. Jimmy Dean

He made good sausage!!! Honestly tho, I always have loved Jimmy Dean! Nice guy

That took... REAL Texas balls to say!

I was not born until 1963 didn’t see his show live ... but I am 55 now and I still eat Jimmy Dean sausage

Does anyone no of any kind of a source to see about episodes from 1958?

You're the Man, Mr. Dean!

darn , i gotta tune in and see if they kept the show on , cuz i really like the Jimmy Dean show ..

I wish I did. This is the only episode I could find.

What a pity!

Blitz MAgazine I loved all the great Jimmy Dean shows when I was a kid and his stint on DanielBoone wish we had shows like those today instead of stupid sitcoms unreality tv and all the other of the kinky shows it would be hard to have musical comedy variety shows today there is no talent

Wow, that country boy Jimmy Dean sure had chutzpah! Good for him!

Sounded a little bit like Lonesome Rhoads from A Face In The Crowd.

Reminds me of the Jean Shepherd Sweetheart Soap debacle.

BIG JOHN....BIG JOHN.....BIG BAD..........

He didn't even have to mention a zip code. Those were the days I was only 1 1/2 years old at the time. ..

He understood it fine

This is "Howard Beal", except it was real and long before the movie "Network".

Now that Jimmy Dean is pitching his sausage once again. Sara Lee bought him out & dropped his ads. Sales plummeted. Dean is back & sales are up.

a 7 is still high rating!!!

The Texas is strong in this one.

He had good facial features. Folksy guy.

reruns?

This was his first show. There was one later on that was more sucessful.

Do you know how to use Google or imdb? It is not difficult.

sausage king.....great guy...

Wow!

WHAT BECAME OF THE SOAP WRAPPER REQUEST? not one word said??

real applause! nice

Just fired up a delicious JD Breakfast Bowl. Yum ! ..

Good old corporate...Always about a dollar

a 7 in nielsen ratings is about 7.5million people.

It would be interesting to know what the shows either side of his were.

You wouldn't by any chance have the Eddie Peabody performance on the Jimmy Dean Show????

i tried doing this at every radio station i was fired from. it didn't work.

n o way you could get away with this today !

this is so sad

good looking guy :)

Should have turned the network executives into sausage.

Make It Colour and “ Praise “ The Lord . His show was replaced with Land Of The Giants

The best aw shucks speech I ever heard. Only Andy Griffith could have faked his way better. It's the Evangelical t.v. preacher "oh there gonna take us off the air" perfected. Cable companies do it nowadays.

Utube search "Roger Miller on the Jimmy Dean show.

The fans should have sent the network nuts. We fans of Jericho did that when they cancelled the series leaving it hanging. Finally, the network exec got on the forum and begged us to stop sending the nuts. They extended the series for another few episodes. They ran out of room to store the nuts. Hehehe

pat boone is a personal fave

so what happened to praise soap, I never heard of it and have been around long before Jimmy Dean

I think I remember this?

So how did it turn out?

How could this have been cancelled in 1959 when I was BORN in 59...and I remember watching his show - sitting on my grandmothers couch in the early/mid 60s. Did he have a second show? It was a variety show and my grandmother and I loved it.

It's ironic but he ended up rich as one could be.

re-runs

Noooooo

the July 1

Canceled? Nooo

Even then, Dean wasn't as likeable as many would have wanted. He came back on ABC both with daytime and nighttime shows starting in 1963. Meanwhile nobody went anywhere and bought soap, least not enough to save him. History shall record that CBS was,uh, right. Hard to believe now if one was not yet born in the pre-cable, pre-internet Era that if a performer failed on network TV, there was NO ALTERNATIVE platform save a giant backwards step into local TV or, worse whatever was left of radio back then. In Dean's case, he did have respectable record sales and once he hit with "Big Bad John" in 1961,he began his "comeback". Later on, once sausage and breakfast sandwiches became his main focus, TV would no longer be necessary beyond a vehicle to sell HIS products.

Not as bold as what Godfrey did to LaRosa on air - also on KZfaq... So "stuff" is homespun for "sh!t", eh?

His first show was cancelled due to not enough Rowlf

Wonder how many bar's of soap was sent

What I want to know is if he really did that

Jimmy Dean's Pure Pork Sauasge lasted longer than he did.

Sausage Pattie’s it is

How do I get in touch with the Dean family? #cbg #conniebgay #cmhoff #townandcountrytime

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Jimmy Dean and the Sausage Kings, look 'em up

Jimmy Dean was a nice guy, but TV is a business - not a social service for nice guys.

Jimmy Died in 2010. So no more shows.

back then I was in the Army and never watched it anyway, but probably wouldn't after I seen him talk to the stuffed animals

Poor bastard

Guy doesn’t understand statistics at all

Umm…completely ignorant here but uhhh…is this Jimmy Dean…? The one that makes the tasty sausage that feeds 600lbs of Texas man, a 13 yr old girl, and a plump Scottish woman?

That damn puppet ruined the program...

Praise soap ;for the bible belt; omg. How utterly lame and concocted by lever brothers.