Sammy Turner
from Paterson, NJ
June 2, 1932 (age 91)
Biography
Smooth RB singer Sammy Turner's classy remakes of the standards Lavender Blue and Always lit up the pop charts in 1959. Signed to Big Top Records and given lush production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Turner also hit with Paradise in 1960. He turned up on Motown later in the decade. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
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