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Mickey Gilley

Mickey Gilley
  • Name: Mickey Gilley
  • Birthday: 1936-03-09
  • Also known as: Mickey Leroy Gilley
  • Place of birth: Natchez, Mississippi, USA
  • Popularity: 1.715
Biography: Country western star Mickey Gilley was born on March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi, the cousin of future rockabilly legend Jerry Lee Lewis and disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, and raised in Ferriday, Louisiana. In their childhood, all three would play the piano when they got together and sing gospel and boogie-woogie songs. After Lewis became a chart-topper in the 1950s, Mickey turned professional himself and cut some singles before becoming a session player in the Big Easy. First married at age 17, Gilley had a minor hit, "Call Me Shorty", in 1958, but it would be years before he came out from under Jerry lee's shadow and established himself as a star. He didn't release his first... Read More

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Title Release date
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind   as  Self (archive footage) 2022-05-22
Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's   as  Self 2015-06-13
Mickey Gilley: In Concert   as  Himself 2005-07-12
Time-Life: Country Legends Live, Vol. 1   as  himself 2005-01-01
It's Branson!   as  Self 1999-01-01
Night of 100 Stars III   as  Self 1990-05-21
Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am 1987-01-02
Off the Wall   as  Buck Banner 1983-07-01
Urban Cowboy   as  Himself 1980-06-06