When I was a little kid I would listen to this on my grandmother's record player. At that age I always thought this song was about Frankenstein's Monster. That's what the lyrics remind me of. A smooth song about Frankenstein. I loved horror as a little kid. Still do at age 19. This song just takes me back so far. It also reminds me of something that was on the original (THE original) Monster Mash album .
By the way Jimmy Dean was a second tenor and upper baritone range. Johnny Cash was a baritone and upper bass range. It would have been a task for dean to get well down into the lower end of the baritone range, and for Cash to reach the upper baritone range, and extremely difficult if not almost impossible to hit notes in the second tenor range.
@amdidextrous This definitely is not Johnny Cash, if you look where it gives the artist that did the recording, you will see it states Jimmy Dean. Dean had another song called Sleeping Beauty, I believe was the title of it. Listen to that, then anything that's classic Cash, and you will hear the difference in the voices. I grew up listening to Jimmy Dean, and Johnny Cash, along with a lot of other country singers. Cash's voice is a lot deeper then Dean's was.
You know I clicked on this expecting a johnny cash cover of a Jimmy dean song. But instead I got Jimmy dean cover a jimmy dean song. You possibly tell me that this sounds like cash, go listen to a boy named sue or cocaine blues and then tell me if this sounds like him
@jarhead3747 this is jonny cash. i grew up listening to him and so did my mom. i have the cd that this song is on. so id you don't believe this is jonny cash then you shouldn't be listening to country in the first place you jarhead!!
@RayRayMoonjavaXD ive listen to all these guys my whole life, i know jimmy dean when i hear him. this isnt johnny cash im sure of it. im not saying he didnt do a cover of this song but im telling you this isnt it. what you got a problem with jarheads?
I just love Johnny Cash. What bass, what verity. The guy barely had to sing to make my lower organs reverberate, particularly the sausages that dangle at the end of my foot.
I love Johnny but Walk The Line I think has gotten every one on the face of the earth Johnny made every every popular country song from 1950 till his death this is Jimmy Dean and it's a good song not Johnny Cash
@thesingingman01 Yea, Cash did a cover, pretty good one, but this is sure Jimmy Dean. The line about the smoke and gas coming out of the mine always gives me chills.
I've Loved this song since childhood..everyone is right ..what you're hearing here is Mr. Jimmy Dean not Johhny Cash. Still, thank you for posting this wonderful classic.
.. Did Johnny Cash ever record this song? Is it actually available on YouTube somewhere by Cash? None of the ones I clicked on are actually Cash.. They're all by Jimmy Dean...
Folks, I was a mere boy when this was popular & this is definitely Jimmy ~ R.I.P. This version had the ending that was rarely played on 60's AM radio, "at the bottom of this mine lies a helluva man ..."
Gang most of you are probably too young to know , i am 45, not that it matters except that my generation knows without a doubt...this is Jimmy Dean not Johnny Cash singing this.
The song was written by Jimmy Dean with help from Roy Acuff. It was inspired by an actor friend of Dean's named John Minto who was 6'5" The song was written on the way to a recording session when Dean needed another song. It was his biggest hit ever and revived his stagnant career. Dean did two versions. This one with "one hell of a man" instead of "a big, big man" on the plaque was too controversial to use in 1961. Jimmy Dean wrote it, this is Dean singing it. Give the man his due.
Ok with a name like solja boi, who r u to act like u kno about classic country, First off its Jimmy Dean who performed this, and its not from the 50's like ur description says, it came out in 1961
Never will understand that, along with some really good people, these inspirational songs attract bad-tempered men that I'd hate to meet in a dark alley on a dark night! Dave. P.S. - What's even more weird is that those frightening people give themselves usernames suggesting that they were sent here by the Prince of Peace, Himself! };-/
What do u mean or what you computer geek? Or what , Or you'll never get laid which you probably wont anyways. Clearly why you have time going through youtube pointing out people who know the song isnt the author they put in title , and commenting on them all. Get a life , get fucked , and you'll be a happier person.
great
rissik1 1 day ago
@rissik1 fuck
rissik1 1 day ago
there is no need for people to carry on posting saying this is jimmy dean because we all already know
Glassy967 5 days ago
spoken word
2jeremyable 1 week ago
he makes sausage
kfc63822 1 week ago
fuckstick, its jimmy dean!
936nh 3 weeks ago
get ur stuff in line. jimmy dean
keithy5111 4 weeks ago
awesome
moorejr8118 1 month ago
classic!
727chitown 1 month ago
Jimmy Dean (not James Dean).The B side was"I won't go hunting with you Jake,but I'll go chasing women".
He finished up having a large chain of butchers shops in America and was known as the sausage king.
xmastree1geoffrey 1 month ago
jimmy dean i have this album
gombfoci1 2 months ago
jimmy dean i have this album
gombfoci1 2 months ago
to everyone that thinks this is johnny cash singing go listen to him some more cause this sounds nothing like him its jimmy dean
bournephoenix 2 months ago
god bless all miners ///
tommy19691690 2 months ago
just shut up and enjoi this awesome song :)
Ghetto3D 2 months ago in playlist country songs
that's jimmy dean,not johnny cash!
ah304 2 months ago
johnnny cash
pb4lyf 2 months ago
lol this is not johnny cashes song or anyone elses....it was jimmy dean.
M40RIP 2 months ago 2
It pays to say it one more time it's JIMMY DEANNNNNNNNNN lol
tonythehammer 2 months ago 2
wow, what a fuck up. get your names right fag
gearsOFlovless 2 months ago
hate bust your bubble thats jimmy dean singing on your video
krankensteinrocks 3 months ago 2
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Jimmy Dean circa 1959-1960
jimuu1 3 months ago
Jimmy Dean circa 1959
jimuu1 3 months ago
Okay everyone understands that its not Johnny Cash! Now shyt up and listen
packer041 3 months ago 2
Jimmy Dean's song, Johnny's cover of it... dumbfucks
davidrain123 3 months ago
@davidrain123 that jimmy dean singing dumbfuck.
krankensteinrocks 3 months ago 9
@krankensteinrocks this is johnny cashes version "dumbfuck"
XxXBeastificationXxX 2 months ago
@XxXBeastificationXxX no.
SchwackPA 1 month ago in playlist Favorites
@SchwackPA yeah i figured that out about five minutes after posting the comment.
XxXBeastificationXxX 1 month ago
@krankensteinrocks FUCK YOU COCKSUCKER ITS JIMMY DEAN STUPID MOTHERFUCKER
krankensteinrocks 2 months ago
@krankensteinrocks haha..tell that muhfuka!!
Redneckdreadhead 1 month ago
@krankensteinrocks fuck me now naked
rissik1 1 day ago
@ StuBram2 Your a F*cking retard. THIS IS JIMMY DEAN THE SAUSAGE MAN SINGING.
tannerturlington 3 months ago
this is jimmy dean shit heads
devilrobbie25 3 months ago
Its not Jimmy Dean or Johnny Cash its Tennessee Ernie Ford
StuBram2 3 months ago
This is jimmy dean you idiots.
gearsofwarisdabest 3 months ago
Jimmy Dean singing
RichardOliverWY 3 months ago
When I was a little kid I would listen to this on my grandmother's record player. At that age I always thought this song was about Frankenstein's Monster. That's what the lyrics remind me of. A smooth song about Frankenstein. I loved horror as a little kid. Still do at age 19. This song just takes me back so far. It also reminds me of something that was on the original (THE original) Monster Mash album .
ahhhhjjjj 4 months ago
NOT Johnny Cash, just thought I'd join in
aosparks 4 months ago
NOT Johnny Cash, just thought I'd join in
aosparks 4 months ago
Yup, it's JD.
norfolk611 4 months ago
THIS IS NOT JOHNNY CASH!!! THIS IS JIMMY DEAN DICK HEAD!!!!
emppimp 4 months ago
good song
ilovefootballish 4 months ago
this is johnny cash singing
jtexasj 4 months ago
@jtexasj No, this is Jimmy Dean singing. Johnny Cash's voice is deeper.
maddmatt66 4 months ago
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it dont matter what song he covers he always makes them his own
lazerjim1 4 months ago
this is Jimmy Dean not Johnny Cash although Cash did cover it and many others by Dean sang
MRJRILEY19841 4 months ago
sounds like jimmy dean to me
vortexofhumanity 5 months ago
Im bigger than Big john!, well, heavyer 6'2 253lbs..
xXMetalWolf54Xx 5 months ago
jimmy dean
dwmoore13 5 months ago
This is far to high pitched to be Cash.
Apogirl232 6 months ago
sounds good anyway...
PlayerSpartan55 6 months ago
Why are people arguing over who sang the song, its just a great song that we should enjoy and not bicker over petty things.
CaptainWows 6 months ago
This is Jimmy Dean, definately. Johnny Cash goes way deeper on the corus.
Jonathanvampire 6 months ago
This is johnny cash
pb4lyf 6 months ago
@pb4lyf dumbass
yeelokz69 5 months ago
By the way Jimmy Dean was a second tenor and upper baritone range. Johnny Cash was a baritone and upper bass range. It would have been a task for dean to get well down into the lower end of the baritone range, and for Cash to reach the upper baritone range, and extremely difficult if not almost impossible to hit notes in the second tenor range.
WendigoEsq 6 months ago
this is jimmy dean retard. anyone born before 1963 knows this, your just a boy! a boy shouldn't talk like that
gonestacmac 7 months ago
Its the amazing Johny Cash
minidallas123 7 months ago
Don't you retards have ears? It's Johnny Cash singing, look at the title fucktards.
amdidextrous 7 months ago
@amdidextrous This definitely is not Johnny Cash, if you look where it gives the artist that did the recording, you will see it states Jimmy Dean. Dean had another song called Sleeping Beauty, I believe was the title of it. Listen to that, then anything that's classic Cash, and you will hear the difference in the voices. I grew up listening to Jimmy Dean, and Johnny Cash, along with a lot of other country singers. Cash's voice is a lot deeper then Dean's was.
WendigoEsq 6 months ago
@amdidextrous lolololol. It is nice to know that I am a fucktard. This is totally Jimmy Dean...
elfboy676 6 months ago
@amdidextrous aint johnny cash jimmy dean
vmarkhills 6 months ago
dumb ass this is jimmy dean!!!!!!!!!
jody647 7 months ago
Good song, but this is Jimmy Dean NOT Johnny Cash.
13madbob 7 months ago
Johnny Cash and Jimmy Dean sure sound a like.
fritspas 7 months ago
R.I.P Big bad John.
OSHJE 7 months ago
ya right mother fucker brawnthehulk
Devilkici 7 months ago
I love this! :) ♥
broccolihater1138 7 months ago
this is jonny cash i have the cd that has this song on it!
RayRayMoonjavaXD 7 months ago
@ Brawnthehulk - Actually, it's Jimmy Dean!
abuelotejano 8 months ago
You can't possibly tell me
jarhead3747 8 months ago
You know I clicked on this expecting a johnny cash cover of a Jimmy dean song. But instead I got Jimmy dean cover a jimmy dean song. You possibly tell me that this sounds like cash, go listen to a boy named sue or cocaine blues and then tell me if this sounds like him
jarhead3747 8 months ago
@jarhead3747 this is jonny cash. i grew up listening to him and so did my mom. i have the cd that this song is on. so id you don't believe this is jonny cash then you shouldn't be listening to country in the first place you jarhead!!
RayRayMoonjavaXD 7 months ago
@RayRayMoonjavaXD If you are really that damn stupid you really got cheated on brains as you have none.
Jimmy Dean NOT Johnny Cash
ihc1963 7 months ago
@RayRayMoonjavaXD Johnny Cash did a cover of it on your album. Click more info and look to the right under like/dislikes. It says "Jimmy Dean"
jrachal4 7 months ago
@RayRayMoonjavaXD ive listen to all these guys my whole life, i know jimmy dean when i hear him. this isnt johnny cash im sure of it. im not saying he didnt do a cover of this song but im telling you this isnt it. what you got a problem with jarheads?
jarhead3747 5 months ago
i have the greatest hits alblum to johnny cash and this song is on it so he obviously sang it as well wether it was a cover or a original
Morlania 8 months ago
Ditto ~~~ JIMMY DEAN This was one of my First 3 of My OWN records not my Moms
coldpopcarl 8 months ago
I just love Johnny Cash. What bass, what verity. The guy barely had to sing to make my lower organs reverberate, particularly the sausages that dangle at the end of my foot.
emryspaul1 8 months ago
its not johnny cash tho
kizersuzi 8 months ago
This is Not John Cash you dick dick. It's Billy Ray Cyrus
brawnthehulk 8 months ago
@brawnthehulk stupid fuck
garrettbrad1 7 months ago
@brawnthehulk ,,, actually i believe it was Gladys Knight and Pips
wjweigand 7 months ago 6
@wjweigand fuck you mum now
rissik1 1 day ago
omg omg this is not johnny cesh !! ! !111oneone
:P But seriously, it's not Johnny Cash.. nub.
Rateupmycomment 8 months ago
Jimmy Dean, or if you like James Bond, Willard Whyte in Diamonds are Forever.
pontiaddict 8 months ago
this is jimmy dean wtf
flexo187 8 months ago
RED SOVINE
Hickchickchuckinfish 9 months ago
NOT Johny Cash.....
1stREMESquaddie 9 months ago
tard this is not johnny cash.. JIMMY DEAN
Maverick00041 9 months ago
JIMMY DEAN SAUSAGE......MMMM....SAUSAGE.TO BAD HE DIED
honkykong77 9 months ago
Jimmy Dean 1961
beeman715 9 months ago
Jimmy Dean ya'll.
JSOO59 9 months ago
People it's RED SOVINE get it right
Hickchickchuckinfish 9 months ago
actually this is johny cash doing a cover of the jimmy dean song big bad john.
mekillyounow 9 months ago
this song is a tribute to Johnny Cash, Jimmy Dean did sing it, but Big JOHN an JOHNny Cash should give you the clue.
HawaiianSteel43 10 months ago
That's definitely not Johnny Cash singing that song.
RockGod08115 10 months ago
this is johny cash 100%
coopertheking420 10 months ago
noone belives me when i tell them big bad john was my great poppaw up in bloody harlen
bigpjjr 10 months ago
This ain't Jimmy dean or Johnny it's red sovine
Hickchickchuckinfish 10 months ago
This is Jimmy Dean, not Johnny Cash :(
rockaroundtheclock56 10 months ago
9 people gave some lip to big john.
jimpenguino 11 months ago
This song is so great.It's sad to,that John gave his life to save them miners....Wow...
CathrineCooper 11 months ago
did johnny cash actually sing this
kzywzy167 11 months ago
Everybody knew you didn't give no lip to big John:P
Beeghly25 11 months ago
I love Johnny but Walk The Line I think has gotten every one on the face of the earth Johnny made every every popular country song from 1950 till his death this is Jimmy Dean and it's a good song not Johnny Cash
beamerball666 11 months ago
please fix this, please change it to jimmy dean then.
mamashackfu 1 year ago
lol yea not cash...
wow043 1 year ago
cash did cover this though i think, you may be right about when he sang it for the miners. But this particular version is jimmy dean
thesingingman01 1 year ago 18
@thesingingman01 This is Johnny Cash!!
TheAndy63t 8 months ago
@thesingingman01 You bet he did cover it 1 of the very few covers that do th original justice!!
orioleman5 5 months ago
@thesingingman01 hey on the johnny cash big bad john video it was written about my grampa cause he got stuck in a mine thing and he met him
jabsterboss 4 months ago
@thesingingman01 wait he didnt meet him in the mine but after he did meet him
jabsterboss 4 months ago
@thesingingman01 Yea, Cash did a cover, pretty good one, but this is sure Jimmy Dean. The line about the smoke and gas coming out of the mine always gives me chills.
jillgivler 3 months ago
this aint cash. it dosent even sound like him. but it is a good song by jimmy dean.
thesingingman01 1 year ago
RIP Johnny Cash
MrJerimyb 1 year ago
this is not cash
1966mopar1966 1 year ago
me and my dad lisend to this song today
1966mopar1966 1 year ago
I think this is a tribute.
Weston188 1 year ago
cash? no
PantryClan 1 year ago
jimmy dean
nascarfanatic2425 1 year ago
is this a true story??
TheTnuggs 1 year ago
@TheTnuggs yes it is he saved them minors my dad told me about this
1966mopar1966 1 year ago
I've Loved this song since childhood..everyone is right ..what you're hearing here is Mr. Jimmy Dean not Johhny Cash. Still, thank you for posting this wonderful classic.
good4GLINDA 1 year ago
idiot
treemyplott 1 year ago
Yeah Dude Fail that's Jimmy Dean
beamerball666 1 year ago
I love this song
broccolihater1138 1 year ago
jimmy dean not cash
MYNAMEISDANIELSCOTT 1 year ago
My dad says that there's a second Big John thing about this one lady who comes down and revives Big John...? Help!
0TheDreamState0 1 year ago
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pacermystic07 1 year ago
@0TheDreamState0
Its called cajun queen
pacermystic07 1 year ago
@pacermystic07 Thank you so much!
0TheDreamState0 1 year ago
@0TheDreamState0 It's called Cajun Queen...there''s one about Big John's son called Little Bitty Big John as well...both are great songs
bigter77 1 year ago
@bigter77 Oh, I never knew there was one about his son!!! Thanks!
0TheDreamState0 1 year ago
dumb fuck, this is jimmy dean SINGING and it's HIS song, so have some respect and change the title and give the man his deserved credit
RIP Jimmy + Big John ;)
MrDavjavu 1 year ago
asshole...get it right
kjaywhy 1 year ago
thats the one and only jimmy dean.....u messed bud
whiskygirl43 1 year ago
this Jimmy Dean singing this song
ctoolmantim 1 year ago
Johnny Cash has done this song before, however I don't know if a version of it is on youtube.
shilohman07 1 year ago
souljaboi7772 you idiot
Meowsaidthekitty 1 year ago
No, Johnny Cash did voice overs!
darrengerdude96 1 year ago
what does anyone named souljaboi know about country. this isnt cash. nice try though. its jimmy dean
Frick34 1 year ago 12
.. Did Johnny Cash ever record this song? Is it actually available on YouTube somewhere by Cash? None of the ones I clicked on are actually Cash.. They're all by Jimmy Dean...
BuzzLOLOL 1 year ago
Folks, I was a mere boy when this was popular & this is definitely Jimmy ~ R.I.P. This version had the ending that was rarely played on 60's AM radio, "at the bottom of this mine lies a helluva man ..."
peacenikron69 1 year ago
YEAh !! Big John.
worblfloss 1 year ago
Gang most of you are probably too young to know , i am 45, not that it matters except that my generation knows without a doubt...this is Jimmy Dean not Johnny Cash singing this.
rookiejon 1 year ago
R.I.P. Jimmy Dean -- and Johnny Cash too, who this is NOT
fortuenti 1 year ago
The song was written by Jimmy Dean with help from Roy Acuff. It was inspired by an actor friend of Dean's named John Minto who was 6'5" The song was written on the way to a recording session when Dean needed another song. It was his biggest hit ever and revived his stagnant career. Dean did two versions. This one with "one hell of a man" instead of "a big, big man" on the plaque was too controversial to use in 1961. Jimmy Dean wrote it, this is Dean singing it. Give the man his due.
BauraKale 1 year ago
Without question this is Jimmy Dean singing. I remember when the song came out. I bought the 45. This is NOT Johnny Cash singing.
BauraKale 1 year ago
retard this a mythical character
big john...fiction...made up...etc...
sammysole1 1 year ago
Here Jimmy Dean is refeering to Johnny Cash life. And especially his influence on the country music world. Big bad John.....
darrenshaver56 1 year ago
Ok with a name like solja boi, who r u to act like u kno about classic country, First off its Jimmy Dean who performed this, and its not from the 50's like ur description says, it came out in 1961
RedneckMike10693 1 year ago
I got your big john right here!
menuvwar 1 year ago
Great song, Not Johnny Cash
Blackboilingrobotoil 1 year ago
this is defo jimmi dean
gr00v1nburg3 1 year ago
Never will understand that, along with some really good people, these inspirational songs attract bad-tempered men that I'd hate to meet in a dark alley on a dark night! Dave. P.S. - What's even more weird is that those frightening people give themselves usernames suggesting that they were sent here by the Prince of Peace, Himself! };-/
Myrtle791 1 year ago
i <3 this song but it's jimmy dean not johnny cash
nellbell121 1 year ago
This is not Johnny Cash, this is Jimmy Dean.
Tex2Nova 2 years ago 45
if u know why are u making that comment? theres 271 comments im sure the poster did it , to get more views and comments clearly has worked lol.
creedstruth 2 years ago
It's still not Johnny Cash, it's Jimmy Dean
Tex2Nova 1 year ago 2
@Tex2Nova we know dumb ass shut the fuck up
creedstruth 1 year ago
Or what? You'll call me by a name that's not me?
Tex2Nova 1 year ago
What do u mean or what you computer geek? Or what , Or you'll never get laid which you probably wont anyways. Clearly why you have time going through youtube pointing out people who know the song isnt the author they put in title , and commenting on them all. Get a life , get fucked , and you'll be a happier person.
creedstruth 1 year ago
I'm not the one with the anger issues, boy. By the way, this is Jimmy Dean, not Johnny Cash!
Tex2Nova 1 year ago
I don't have anger issues? lol
creedstruth 1 year ago
@Tex2Nova yes it is johnny cash
fatherlove1 1 year ago
@Tex2Nova Ever try any of that Johnny Cash Pork Sausage?
moproducer 11 months ago
@Tex2Nova Well there you go. The one who posted this song screen name is soulaboi
dpander83 10 months ago
@Tex2Nova how do you know
mntdewful 8 months ago
Jimmy Dean wrote and recorded Big John in 1961. Johnny Cash never recorded it.
Gwendlethork 2 years ago
if u know why are u making that comment? theres 271 comments im sure the poster did it , to get more views and comments clearly has worked lol.
creedstruth 2 years ago
yes he did, it's on a live album.
laslos3 1 year ago
when did jonny cash die? btw, great song
harrythehairyhippo 2 years ago
sep 03
Meashisgod 2 years ago
jimmy dean played the part of willard white in the james bond film diamonds are forever.
fullonred1 2 years ago
jimmy dean thats who this is. gtill enjoyed it
timwik2 2 years ago
aint johnny cash :(
TheAxecutioner 2 years ago 2
@TheAxecutioner I agree. This is Jimmy Dean singing.
WOD1980 2 years ago
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ok so where`s the johnny cash version at and do you know if he wrote the song
ffffffffoooooooo 2 years ago
ok the song was written by jimmy dean, who originally performed it. this is his version
ZootSuitProductions 2 years ago
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both jimmy dean and johnny cash sang this song, but it was johnny cach that sang it first....
lissij09 2 years ago
look it up dumbass, no he didnt
ZootSuitProductions 2 years ago