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[[caption-width-right:227:[[RedBaron "The Mouth of the South"]]]]

James Ray Hart (born January 1, 1943) is a ProfessionalWrestling manager, promoter and official from Jackson, MS best known for his work in Memphis and Wrestling/{{WWE}} in the 1980s and later in Wrestling/{{WCW}} in the 1990s. After a brief recording career as a member of the Gentrys, who had a 1965 hit with "Keep on Dancing," he started in the wrestling business in 1974 under a record producer gimmick.

He was a top {{Heel}} manager in Memphis into the mid-1980s as the leader of his PowerStable the First Family. He debuted in WWE in 1985 as the manager for [[Wrestling/GregValentine Greg "The Hammer" Valentine]] before "Luscious" Johnny Valiant took over as the manager of the Dream Team (Valentine and Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake.) Hart was in Wrestling/KingKongBundy's corner for his famous {{Squash|Match}} of SD Jones at the first ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' on March 31, 1985. He managed many wrestlers in WWE, including [[Wrestling/AdrianAdonis "Adorable" Adrian Adonis]], the Funk Brothers ([[Wrestling/TerryFunk Terry]] and [[Wrestling/DoryFunkJr Hoss [Dory Jr.]]]), [[Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan the Honky Tonk Man]][[note]]Where he was billed as "Colonel Jimmy Hart"[[/note]], the Hart Foundation (Wrestling/BretHart[[note]]no relation[[/note]] and Wrestling/JimNeidhart), the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers (Wrestling/{{Jacques|Rougeau}} and Raymond), Dino Bravo, Wrestling/TheNastyBoys, Wrestling/TheNaturalDisasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and [[Wrestling/FredOttman Typhoon]]), Money Inc. ([[Wrestling/TedDiBiase "The Million Dollar Man" Ted [=DiBiase=]]] and [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]]), the Glamour Girls (Wrestling/LeilaniKai and Judy Martin) and, after a [[HeelFaceTurn face turn]] in early 1993, the [=MegaManiacs=] (Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake.)

Hart followed Hulk to WCW in 1994 and managed him until his match with [[Wrestling/BigShow the Giant]] at ''WCW Halloween Havoc 95'' when Hart turned heel and sided with the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom. Hart would stay with the group through its dissolution after ''WCW Bash at the Beach 97'', and would manage the Faces of Fear (Wrestling/{{Meng}} and Wrestling/TheBarbarian) and [[Wrestling/BillDeMott Hugh Morrus]] until the FOF split. In late 1998, Hart announced that he had reunited the FOF and Morrus as the First Family. This lasted until Barbarian inexplicably turned on Meng, kicking him out of the group. Hart added Bryan Knobbs (formerly of the Nasty Boys) and Jerry Flynn to the group, but it just wasn't the same. Hart briefly managed Hail (Emory Hale) and temporarily associated himself with Hogan again in 2000. He is a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/cwa/awa-s-h.html Southern (Memphis) Heavyweight Champion]].

In 2001, he and Hulk tried to create their own promotion in Florida called the XWF but it was not successful. Hart returned to Memphis and has continued to manage. He is also the promoter for Wrestling/{{Wrestlicious}}, and has worked on-and-off for [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] going back to 2003. He was inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame in 2005.

He worked behind the scenes for years in WCW composing wrestlers' entrance themes. Because many of these themes were blatantly based on existing songs, he is the former {{Trope Namer|s}} for SuspiciouslySimilarSong, which was originally called The Jimmy Hart Version.
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!! "The Tropes of the South":
* ArchEnemy: (in Memphis): Wrestling/JerryLawler, of course. (in WWE): [[Wrestling/JunkyardDog the Junkyard Dog]], the British Bulldogs ([[Wrestling/DynamiteKid the Dynamite Kid]] and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith), Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, Hulk Hogan, [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors the Legion of Doom]].
* AsHimself: In the MonsterMash wrestling film ''Film/MonsterBrawl''.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He swerved the Natural Disasters leading to Money Inc. defeating the Legion of Doom for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] in 1992, turning the Disasters face. Later that year, he did the same to the Nasty Boys, and they turned face too. After he arrived with Hulk Hogan in WCW in 1994 he ended up turning on him too and allying himself with [[Wrestling/BigShow The Giant]].
* CoolShades: If he was ever seen without them, odds are it was because one of the face (good guy) wrestlers smacked them off.
* DirtyCoward[=/=]CombatPragmatist[=/=]LoopholeAbuse: He's a heel from Memphis.
** Perhaps the definitive example may have been the $50,000 battle royal that aired on the July 12, 1986 episode of ''WWF on [=MSG=] Network.'' Hart spent the entire match hiding under the ring. It came down to Greg Valentine and JYD in the ring, and they eliminated each other, giving Hart the win.
* DisguisedInDrag: Hart would often get busted for interference and thus banned from ringside. No matter to Honky, who would just have his girlfriend “Peggy Sue” accompany him instead. While this was usually Wrestling/SherriMartel in a wig and poodle skirt, sometimes the role would be played by Hart instead. Given that Jimmy Sue's face was completely veiled and he was lugging around a megaphone, [[PaperThinDisguise it kept fans guessing]] as to which one it could be.
-->'''''Website/{{WrestleCrap}}''''': Ok, I get wearing the wig as part of the disguise, but a bra seems a bit excessive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He turned face after Ted [=DiBiase=] had tried to use IRS' briefcase to hit Beefcake in his surgically repaired face.
* EvilLaugh: At times during promos.
* GenreSavvy: Tried to stop [[Wrestling/{{BillDeMott}} Hugh Morrus]] from answering [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder NWO]] member Wrestling/ScottNorton's challenge on the August 3, 1998 ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' after Norton had interfered in the match between Wrestling/{{Psicosis}} and Tokyo Magnum. Of course, Norton powerbombed Morrus, proving Hart right.
* {{Heel}}: Almost always. So much so that it was jarring to see him at the side of Hulk Hogan after his face turn.
* IconicItem: His megaphone.
* IdenticallyNamedGroup: The Hart Foundation's original lineup was Wrestling/BretHart, Wrestling/JimNeidhart, and Jimmy Hart.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His megaphone was used to knock out the opponents of wrestlers he managed.
* LargeHam: Whenever he was feeling low, Jimmy turned on the waterworks something awful.
* LastOfHisKind: With the deaths of Wrestling/FreddieBlassie, Wrestling/TheGrandWizard, Wrestling/SherriMartel, Wrestling/MissElizabeth, Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano, Wrestling/PaulBearer, Wrestling/MrFuji, "Lucious" Johnny Valiant and Wrestling/BobbyHeenan, Jimmy is now one of the last three living managers of wrestling's golden age between the 1980s and early 1990s (the others being Wrestling/{{Slick}} and Wrestling/JimCornette).
* NoIndoorVoice: The Mouth Of The South. His megaphone enhances this.
* NonActionGuy: He had some matches, especially early in his career in the southern territories, but mostly for comedy heel-style reasons, as he was far too scrawny to make a belivable wrestler. He did know how to take bumps, but often managed to squirm his way out of retaliation from the face wrestlers too.
* OlderThanHeLooks: Jimmy pretty much looks exactly the same as he did 20 years ago.
* PowerStable:
** (in Memphis): The First Family, which included, among others, Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, King Kong Bundy, Wrestling/TheIronSheik, Wayne Farris (later the Honky Tonk Man), Wrestling/EddieGilbert, Wrestling/RickRude, Wrestling/KevinSullivan, [[Wrestling/TheMoondogs The Moondogs (Rex and Spot)]], Wrestling/JimCornette (as Hart's understudy), Wrestling/IronMikeSharpe, Wrestling/RandySavage, Creator/AndyKaufman, Wrestling/SherriMartel, Wrestling/LeilaniKai, Wrestling/JesseVentura, [[Wrestling/KokoBWare Sweet Brown Sugar (Koko B. Ware)]], and many more.
** The Dungeon Of Doom
** He had a version of the First Family in the XWF with Greg Valentine and the Nasty Boys.
*** He created another version in Memphis with Mabel and Kid Kash, among others.
* SouthernGentleman: Despite his flamboyant, cowardly behavior, he still had shades of this. This is most noteable in his interactions with Wrestling/MissElizabeth.
* TheStarscream: He initially worked under Jerry Lawler as part of The King's Army, plotting to take control of the group away from Lawler. He eventually put the crown on Wrestling/PreciousPaulEllering while Lawler was hospitalized from a football injury, but Lawler made short work of Hart once he was healthy.
* SunglassesAtNight: As shown above.
* TakeThat: For WWE's ''The Wrestling Album'', he recorded a song called "Eat Your Heart Out, Music/RickSpringfield".
* TraumaticHaircut: At ''Wrestlemania 4'', he got his client Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan DQ'd to save his Intercontinental title from Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake. In revenge, Beefcake took the opportunity to shear off quite a bit of Hart's hair before Honky Tonk Man managed to drag him out of there. In the subsequent interview, Hart hid himself under his jacket.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: He had a variety of jackets that were often decorated with the names and images of whoever he was managing at the time.
* VerbalTic: Let's face it, Daddy-O. Jimmy Hart prefers socializing by calling people "Daddy-O".
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