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Jan 31, 1939 85 years old
Jazz guitarist and composer
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About Don Gililland
- Don Dow Gililland (commonly misspelled as Gilliland; born 31 January 1939 Dallas, Texas) is a jazz guitarist and composer who 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: "Wild Woman", "Don't Need Your Lovin"', and "Bop Bop Baby". Gililland got a part as a guitarist in the movie Rock Baby Rock It!, which was being filmed in Dallas in 1956.
- During the next year, he enrolled at North Texas State University, where he performed with the school's One O'Clock Lab Band.
- After graduating he worked in clubs with Buster Smith.
- During the day, he was employed by the Oak Cliff Tribune.
- He became managing editor, then worked for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit."Bop Bop Baby" was included on the soundtrack of Walk the Line, the film biography of Johnny Cash.
