10 Facts About Jimmy Lennon

Jimmy Lennon served the World War II effort by becoming a commissioned civil instructor as a butcher and cook.

At age 17, Jimmy Lennon was planning to go to college and become an English professor, but his father Herbert Jimmy Lennon became ill and died at age 44.

Jimmy Lennon worked at multiple jobs singing and performing at sports events, athletic, patriotic, and police events in and around Los Angeles.

Jimmy Lennon first became a ring announcer in Santa Monica, California at the Ocean Park Arena, while working there as the regular singer of "The Star-Spangled Banner".

At the time Jimmy Lennon was wearing a tuxedo, which he wore for his first announcing job.

Jimmy Lennon's boss liked Lennon's performance so well, he hired Lennon as the regular fight announcer.

Jimmy Lennon was a stickler for details, a prime example being his painstaking effort to pronounce tongue-twisting names correctly.

Jimmy Lennon appeared in 75 productions, including Raging Bull, Rocky III, Main Event, California Split, Tough Guys, Kid Galahad, The Munsters, and The Monkees.

Jimmy Lennon was the character of a Jakks Pacific action figure released in 2007, depicting his Rocky III appearance.

The second born of seven brothers, Jimmy was later the uncle of the Lennon Sisters vocal group on The Lawrence Welk Show.