Fact #38280
When:
Short story:
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1.
Full article:
Jimmy Dean : I was in summer stock in a play called Destry Rides Again. There was a guy in the play named John Minto who was 6ft 5. He was the only guy in the company that I had to look up to because I'm 6ft 3. I used to run into him in the halls, the theatre and the hotel and I'd says, 'BIG J-J-O-O-H-H-N-N. That just had a powerful ring to iy - so I out him in a mine and killed him. That's all.
(Source : Jimmy Dean obituary in Texas Hot Country magazine, July 2010)
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(Source : Jimmy Dean obituary in Texas Hot Country magazine, July 2010)