Jimmy Hart

Jimmy Hart, born James Ray Hart in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 1, 1944, is an American professional wrestling manager, executive, composer and musician nicknamed the Mouth of the South. Before wrestling he sang with the Gentrys, whose 1965 hit Keep on Dancing sold over a million copies. Jerry Lawler brought him into Memphis wrestling, where he became Lawler's manager and later led a stable called the First Family, and in 1985 he joined the World Wrestling Federation, where his trademark megaphone and a long list of managed wrestlers made him a fixture. He managed Greg Valentine, the Honky Tonk Man, the Hart Foundation and Hulk Hogan among others, was briefly the AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion in 1981, and composed theme songs for many WWE wrestlers.