Jimmy Dean breaks the rules and talks about the cancellation of his variety show. A bold move for 1959. If you would like to see more videos please consider making a donation: / finding
Hubert Shitmeyer, try the greatest commercial in history, he doesn’t make a promise for the product, he makes the viewer have a sense of purpose by saving his show, and makes them feel special by saying he’ll “appreciate” them.
@@EO-jr7li Exactly, Captain EO...Homespun Jimmy sold alot of his sausages that way once he learned the tricks of the trade. There's a little 'authentic' devil in that there Dean kid...to make himself some shortnin' bread.
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.
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
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
Jimmy was humble too. Jim Henson was so grateful for the opportunity he offered Jimmy a 40% stake in his company. Jimmy turned it down cause he didn't feel like he did anything to earn it. Once Jim Henson productions took off and became what it became, he said he didn't regret it at all.
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.
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.
Those "savages" are actually the audio man stepping on a controller to increase the sensitivity of the mike to make audiences sound louder. At the same time that "calm" audience is what he was cancelled. Not enough people were watching his show at a time when there were only 3 national networks.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
2nd, actually. His first was Town and Country Time in 1955, so he'd worked out all the kinks by the time he got to doing The Jimmy Dean Show most of us know 😊
This series appears to have been an afternoon variety show. "CBS then carried The Jimmy Dean Show on its daytime schedule from September 14, 1958 to June 1959 from New York, airing from 2 to 2:30 p.m. ET Monday-Saturday." - wikipedia
@@38ddkelly In his book, Jimmy Dean said Art Linkletter told the CBS brass he could bring in better ratings for less money. I believe the replacement show was "Divorce Court" and it bombed.
The ratings are not actually numbers of people - it's a share of the total number of viewers. In 1959, getting 7.5 million viewers for a primetime show would have been horrific. A series would have been cancelled after the first episode. Back then a single episode of an average series was getting more than 25 million watching it. A hit series could have 40 million people watching a single episode. There were only 3 national networks by 1959.
He got another show a few years later, but that also was canceled quickly. Don't worry though. Jimmy Dean went on to become the king of breakfast sausages. Still available in grocery stores all over the world.
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
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.
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.
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.
Great observation. It must also be remembered that at this time there were only 3 national networks. For a show to have any chance of staying on the air they needed to attract an audience of at least 15 million people. Today a show is considered safe if it attracts 1 million.
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?