{"id":62725,"date":"2019-05-18T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=62725"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:47:46","slug":"singer-tv-host-actor-business-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/singer-tv-host-actor-business-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer, TV Host, Actor &#038; Business Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy learned to play piano as a youngster, and he sang in church.\u00a0 He said church singing gave him his interest in music.<\/p>\n<p>He dropped out of high school and became a professional entertainer and later formed a group called, &#8216;The Texas Wildcats&#8217;, and had regular performances on radio.\u00a0 Jimmy gave many performers their start in show business including Patsy Cline and Roy Clark.<\/p>\n<p>He had a big hit in 1961 with, &#8216;Big Bad John&#8217;, and his fame continued as a guest host on, &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217;, and with his own TV show from 1963 to 1966.\u00a0 Jim Henson and Hank Williams Jr were guests on that show.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969 he and his brother formed a sausage company which became a multi-national corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Join me next Saturday, May 25 at 9:20 for more with Jimmy Dean!<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Norgate and you&#8230;Saturday mornings&#8230;on CKNX!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnnHprUGKF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy learned to play piano as a youngster, and he sang in church.\u00a0 He said church singing gave him his interest in music. He dropped out of high school and became a professional entertainer and later formed a group called, &#8216;The Texas Wildcats&#8217;, and had regular performances on radio.\u00a0 Jimmy gave many performers their start","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":62727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:14:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/singer-tv-host-actor-business-man\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62726,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62725\/revisions\/62726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}