RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81.

RICHMOND, Va. - Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. His wife, ...

Jimmy Dean’s name greets Americans from coast to coast in the supermarket sausage aisle. The man himself was a country crooner, talented storyteller and TV host before he became the Texas Panhandle’s ...

Jimmy Dean has been synonymous with breakfast foods since the country singer founded the company (and named it after himself) in 1969. It's known for ready-to-heat freezer breakfasts like egg and ...

Did you know that Jimmy Dean, of frozen breakfast sandwich fame, was a real person? Before he started a breakfast meat company, he was a professional singer and TV entertainer — which seems a little ...