From CBS's Washington studios last week came a new network noise: "Whenever the day is endin', wherever we are seen, it's the whole gang sayin', good evenin' from Jimmy Dean." At 28, rawboned, wavy-haired Jimmy Dean* was making his nighttime TV bow as the dandy of country music, and showing a late-hour (10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) audience just why millions have been getting up at 7 a.m. five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy...
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