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