Gilley's Club was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, and Jimmy Swaggart.
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10 Facts About Gilley's Club
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Gilley's Club was primarily a guitarist at the time and took his guitar to school to entertain classmates.
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Gilley's Club's record "Call Me Shorty" on the Dot label sold well in 1958.
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Gilley's Club had a minor hit from the album called "Now I Can Live Again".
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Gilley's Club shared Gilley's Club with Sherwood Cryer, who asked Gilley to re-open his former bar with him.
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The club portion of Gilley's burned in 1990, and the rodeo arena portion was razed in 2005 to make way for a school.
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Gilley's Club remained a popular country act for the rest of the 1970s.
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Gilley's Club's career was given a second go-around when one of his recordings was featured in the box-office-selling film Urban Cowboy.
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Gilley's Club turned his attention to Branson, Missouri, where he built a theater, which was a soon-to-be boomtown for the country music industry.
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