Billy Mays III remembers developing a special bond with his dad as an adult, in the years before his untimely death Courtesy of Billy Mays III Billy Mays II and Billy Mays III in the late 1980s ...

Billy Mays — and his booming voice — was a fixture on television screens in the early 2000s, selling products like OxiClean and Kaboom. But his career as a pitchman was tragically cut short ...

While Billy Mays is known to the world as the OxiClean pitchman who brought the cleaning product to its current fame, he also had two children: Billy Mays III and Elizabeth Mays. Billy welcomed ...

Billy Mays knew how to sell. He was the consummate pitchman, rising from boardwalks to state fairs to short-form direct-response ads. By the time he died of heart disease on June 28 at 50, he was ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide. "Hi. Billy Mays here," he would begin ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. Tampa ...

Billy Mays' son, Billy Mays III, has worked hard to keep his dad's memory alive in the 15 years since his death The 37-year-old tells PEOPLE what it was like to witness his dad's rise to fame and ...