Editing Jimmy Hart (section)

{{short description|American musician, professional wrestling manager and sports businessman}}
{{for multi|the baseball player|Jimmy Hart (baseball)|other people with a similar name|Jim Hart (disambiguation){{!}}Jim Hart}}
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{{Infobox professional wrestler
| name        = Jimmy Hart
| birthname   = James Ray Hart
| image       = Jimmy_Hart_2018.jpg
| caption     = Hart in 2018
| names       = '''Jimmy Hart'''<ref name=oww>{{cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jimmy-hart.html|title=Jimmy Hart profile|publisher=Online World of Wrestling|access-date=2009-09-04|archive-date=October 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002135450/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jimmy-hart.html|url-status=live}}</ref><br />The Strapmaster<br />The Mouth of the South<br />The Colonel<br />The Memphis Chicken
| height      = {{convert|5|ft|10|in|m|sigfig=3}}
| weight      = 166 lb (75 kg)
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1944|1|1}}<ref name=oww/>
| birth_place = [[Jackson, Mississippi]], U.S.
| billed      = [[Memphis, Tennessee]]<ref name=oww/>
| Debut.      =
| Retired.    = 
}}

'''James Ray Hart''' (born January 1, 1944) is an American [[professional wrestling]] [[Manager (professional wrestling)|manager]], executive, composer, and musician. He is signed to [[WWE]] in a Legends deal.<ref name=oww/> He is best known for his work in WWE when it was still known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; renamed WWE in 2002) and [[World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), and used the nickname "the Mouth of the South" (one that was also given to [[Ted Turner]]).

Regarded by many to be one of the greatest managers in professional wrestling history, Hart has managed the likes of [[ Andy Kaufman]], [[The Honky Tonk Man]], [[Bret Hart]] (no relation) and [[Jim Neidhart]] ([[The Hart Foundation]]), [[Greg Valentine|Greg "the Hammer" Valentine]], [[Jerry Lawler|Jerry "the King" Lawler]], [[Ted DiBiase|"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase]], [[Mike Rotunda|Irwin R. Schyster]], [[Jacques Rougeau|The Mountie]], [[The Natural Disasters]], [[Dino Bravo]], the [[Nasty Boys (wrestling)|Nasty Boys]], [[Big Show|The Giant]], and [[Hulk Hogan]]. He was briefly the AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion in 1981.

Before becoming involved with professional wrestling, Hart was a member of rock band [[The Gentrys]], best known for their 1965 top five [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] hit, "[[Keep on Dancing (The Gentrys song)|Keep on Dancing]]".<ref>{{Citation|title=Keep on Dancing multiple versions|url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/c8ihlcmSU8m6/|language=en|access-date=2021-08-15}}</ref>