Jimmy Dean's Greatest Hits in Bloomington, MN

Jimmy Dean's Greatest Hits
remains an excellent summation of his years at Columbia Records, containing the hit singles
"Big Bad John,"
"The Cajun Queen,"
"To a Sleeping Beauty,"
"P.T. 109,"
"Little Black Book,"
"The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Every Night)"
and
"Harvest of Sunshine."
For the 1998 CD reissue,
Columbia
/
Legacy
added the 1962 Top Ten hit
"Dear Ivan,"
making the record a near-definitive overview of
Dean's
peak years. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine