Mother’s Day Songs: Jimmy Dean – I.O.U.

In 1976, Jimmy Dean achieved a million-seller with a recitation song as a tribute to his mother and mothers everywhere called "I.O.U."

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The song was released a few weeks before Mother's Day and quickly became a Top 10 country hit, his first one in a decade, and a Top 40 pop hit, his first in 14 years.

Jimmy Dean died at the age of 81, on June 13, 2010, of natural causes at his home in Varina, Virginia.

He was entombed in a 9-foot-tall piano-shaped mausoleum overlooking the James River on the grounds of his estate. His epitaph reads "Here Lies One Hell of a Man".

Jimmy Dean - I.O.U.