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Don Gililland

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Name
  
Don Gililland


Role
  
Composer

Don Dow Gililland (commonly misspelled as Gilliland; born 31 January 1939 Dallas, Texas) is a jazz guitarist and composer who is best known for having recorded three rockabilly hits in 1956 on Sun Records with "Wade & Dick — The College Kids," led by Wade Lee Moore (born 1934) and Dick Penner:

Contents

  1. Wild Woman
  2. Don't Need Your Lovin'
  3. Bop Bop Baby

Bop Bop Baby was included on the soundtrack of Walk the Line, the film biography of Johnny Cash. Gililland has been legally blind since birth but has always been able to get around. Gililland played guitar with Buster Smith. Gililland also worked 26 years for the Oak Cliff Tribune, becoming managing editor. He currently works for Dallas Area Rapid Transit and still performs in the evenings.

Selected discography

Jazz

  • One O'Clock Lab Band
  • Don Jacoby, Swinging Big Sound: Don Jacoby and The College All Stars
  • Rockabilly

  • Wade & Dick – The College Kids
  • Recorded at Pepper Studio (Sun Studio), 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, December 14, 1956
  • Dick Penner
  • Recorded at Pepper Studio (Sun Studio), 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, February 16, 1957
  • Restless (neo-rockabilly band)
    1. Sag, Drag and Fall

    Filmography

  • Rock Baby, Rock It! (movie trailer on YouTube)
  • References

    Don Gililland Wikipedia