Jimmy Dean, R. I. P.

Jimmy Dean, the country-and-western music legend who had a big pop and country hit in "Big Bad John" in 1961 before becoming a hugely successful businessman with his sausage products, passed away on Sunday night at his Henrico, Virginia home at age 81 from natural causes.

Here's a commercial Jimmy did for his sausage from 1994, some ten years after he had sold his business to the Sarah Lee Company.