Jimmy Dean recorded two versions of this week's Number One song. Big Bad John had two endings. In the original version he says One Hell of a Man, while the second version replaced it with A Big Big Man. The original was deemed to be perhaps offensive to listeners at that time and era. When I play the song on the show, I always choose the original with One Hell of a Man; and that's the version I played on the show this week.
Here now is Jimmy Dean in a clip from his own show, The Jimmy Dean Show, and a live performance of Big Bad John.
Enjoy!
Michael
