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.
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.
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.
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.❤😭
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 😊
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
We need more Jimmy Deans on this world, and on TV
Classic! People don’t talk like this anymore. Kind words, honesty always is the way to go
God bless him for standing his ground in this situation. Of course he was back in the air by the mid-1960s and better than ever.
@Blitz Magazine And in one of the James Bond movies, of all places.
whoa what a decent authentic heartfelt rant. that is a tv PERSONALITY.
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.
He got his show back a few years later.
"Screw TV; let's make sausages!"
LOL
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.
altfactor Lets not forget those jimmy dean sausages
@@someguy9921yes sir never ever will forget those good breakfast
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.
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.❤😭
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.
Great American, Grew up poor, succeeded , guitar piano accordion ..
Actor" Diamonds are Forever"Wrote " Big Bad John"
Acted on the Daniel Boone TV Series too .
@@keithwilder4543 And guest-hosted the Tonight Show.
What about major recording artist?
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.
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.
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
Heck, now they shut down Biden on the air before he can put his foot in his mouth - and he's (allegedly) President.
I remember this. I was only 4 in 1959 and loved his show.
I was sad when his show ended. I cried so hard.
Wtf how old are you?
@@helioszxc older than you
OH
@@Oofteam1 😬
The great Jimmy Dean ! This guy was one of the best .
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.
"[...] "Big Bag John" [...]" How does that song go?
Do you mean "Big Bad John"?
Wow, this is emotionally wrenching.
And a wonderful Country Boy he was!
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
THANKs. Loved it.remember his shows. Saw him in 1973..in restaurant in Nashville areal SWEET HEART.
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.
i bought the soap and mailed the wrapper in ....
Jimmy Dean, Andy Griffith & Pat Boone...the most brilliant pitchmen of all time.
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
Bless his heart? There's more to Jimmy than just his heart. July 2nd 2021.
@@timothyball7502 it’s a term; not literal
Early television.....nothin' better.
Jimmy one of the greatest country singers miss him very much
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.
R. I. P. Jimmy Dean
I was not born until 1963 didn’t see his show live ... but I am 55 now and I still eat Jimmy Dean sausage
That took... REAL Texas balls to say!
Sounded a little bit like Lonesome Rhoads from A Face In The Crowd.
Except in 'real life', Lonesome Rhoads was a jerk who led his fans around by the nose, no respect for them. Not like Jimmy Dean.
He made good sausage!!! Honestly tho, I always have loved Jimmy Dean! Nice guy
Does anyone no of any kind of a source to see about episodes from 1958?
He didn't even have to mention a zip code. Those were the days I was only 1 1/2 years old at the time.
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@Word of Mouth They weren't I SAY they weren't no zip codes back then, honey child. 😉
WHAT BECAME OF THE SOAP WRAPPER REQUEST? not one word said??
This is "Howard Beal", except it was real and long before the movie "Network".
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
darn , i gotta tune in and see if they kept the show on , cuz i really like the Jimmy Dean show ..
What a pity!
You're the Man, Mr. Dean!
Wow, that country boy Jimmy Dean sure had chutzpah! Good for him!
I wish I did. This is the only episode I could find.
He understood it fine
I remember seeing this
Reminds me of the Jean Shepherd Sweetheart Soap debacle.
BIG JOHN....BIG JOHN.....BIG BAD..........
JOHN
i tried doing this at every radio station i was fired from. it didn't work.
I look nearly exactly like this man
This was his first show. There was one later on that was more sucessful.
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 😊
He had good facial features. Folksy guy.
so what happened to praise soap, I never heard of it and have been around long before Jimmy Dean
a 7 is still high rating!!!
You wouldn't by any chance have the Eddie Peabody performance on the Jimmy Dean Show????
Now that Jimmy Dean is pitching his sausage once again. Sara Lee bought him out & dropped his ads. Sales plummeted. Dean is back & sales are up.
reruns?
Good old corporate...Always about a dollar
sausage king.....great guy...
a 7 in nielsen ratings is about 7.5million people.
a 7.5 is still high even if its still inaccurate .
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.
Do you know how to use Google or imdb? It is not difficult.
The Texas is strong in this one.
It would be interesting to know what the shows either side of his were.
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
"As the World Turns", a soap opera was the show before Jimmy's. The one following was "Art Linkletter's House Party"
@@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.
Wow!
Should have turned the network executives into sausage.
Just fired up a delicious JD Breakfast Bowl. Yum !
..
Wonder how many bar's of soap was sent
n o way you could get away with this today !
Today's not live television.
real applause! nice
Utube search "Roger Miller on the Jimmy Dean show.
good looking guy :)
I think I remember this?
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.
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.
Someone said he got his show back a few years later so thats probably why you remember watching it
Also I just realised you commented this 7 years ago so you probably don’t care anymore 🤦🏻♀️😂
I watched George Carson
this is so sad
Not as bold as what Godfrey did to LaRosa on air - also on RUclips... So "stuff" is homespun for "sh!t", eh?
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.
That was something a TV evangelist could be proud of:)
@nahmanini sithole He wasn't faking anything. He didn't have to.
How do I get in touch with the Dean family? #cbg #conniebgay #cmhoff #townandcountrytime
Make It Colour and “ Praise “ The Lord . His show was replaced with Land Of The Giants
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 July 1
His first show was cancelled due to not enough Rowlf
re-runs
It's ironic but he ended up rich as one could be.
So how did it turn out?
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.
I enjoy those sausages, as well as his music.
Jimmy Dean's Pure Pork Sauasge lasted longer than he did.
Canceled? Nooo
pat boone is a personal fave
What I want to know is if he really did that
you just watched him, didn't you?
Noooooo
Sausage Pattie’s it is
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Jimmy Dean was a nice guy, but TV is a business - not a social service for nice guys.
Jimmy Dean and the Sausage Kings, look 'em up
Poor bastard
Jimmy Died in 2010. So no more shows.
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?
Yes indeed.
Guy doesn’t understand statistics at all
back then I was in the Army and never watched it anyway, but probably wouldn't after I seen him talk to the stuffed animals