Jimmy Dickens, an Outsize Country Singer, Dies at 94

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/nyregion/jimmy-dickens-94-an-outsize-country-singer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=fb-nytimes&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&_r=0

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NASHVILLE — Little Jimmy Dickens, the diminutive but big-voiced country singer best known for his novelty recordings and his self-deprecating sense of humor, died on Friday at a hospital here. He was 94.

Michael Manning, a staff member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, confirmed the death.

For decades a fan favorite at the Grand Ole Opry — and still active there into his 90s — Mr. Dickens stood 4-foot-11 and liked to joke about his stature, often referring to himself as “Mighty Mouse in Pajamas.” The label that stuck with him, though, was Tater, a nod to his 1949 hit “Take an Old Cold ’Tater (and Wait).” Hank Williams, his fellow Opry star at the time, supplied him with the nickname.

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