Jesse Lee Turner (born 1938)
is a former American singer. He recorded songs for several labels in the late 1950s, including the
one-hit wonder
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"Little Space Girl".
Turner was born in
Addicks, Texas
Addicks is an area of Houston that was formerly its own community.
Addicks, a railroad stop for the Bear Creek community, was named after its original postmaster, Henry Addicks, in 1884. The original town site was located just south of the inte ...
, United States, and graduated from high school in
Boling, Texas
Boling is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wharton County, Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 2 ...
.
His first recording was the single "Teenage Misery" for
Fraternity Records.
In 1958, he released the single "Little Space Girl" b/w "Shake Baby Shake" on
Carlton Records Carlton Records was a record label based in New York City that was formed by former RCA Records A&R head Joe Carlton in 1957. Guaranteed Records was a sublabel of Carlton. Carlton Records lasted until 1964. The most notable recording artists on C ...
; the tune hit No. 20 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1959.
The follow-up "Thinkin'" failed to chart, and Turner switched to
Top Rank Records to release "Do I Worry", which also sold poorly.
Moving to Sudden Records, he wrote and issued "The Elopers" to no success;
GNP Records GNP Records was an American jazz record label.
Artists
*Moms & Dads
*Billy Strange
*Savoy Brown
*Stan Kenton
*Bing Crosby
*Neil Norman
* David Matthews
*Django Reinhardt
*Duke Ellington
*Louis Armstrong
* Bob Kames
*Champion Jack Dupree
*John Lee H ...
also released "Ballad of Billy Sol Estes" and a second single.
Turner's output comprises 15 known songs; most of which have been reissued on the CD, ''Shake, Baby, Shake''. He currently lives in Texas.
References
1938 births
Living people
American male singers
American rockabilly musicians
Singers from Texas
Imperial Records artists
Carlton Records artists
Musicians from Houston
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