Don Gililland

Who is Don Gililland?

Don Dow Gililland 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 and Dick Penner:

Wild Woman

Don't Need Your Lovin'

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.