Sammy Turner (born Samuel Black, June 2, 1932) is an American singer who was popular at the end of the 1950s.

Career

Sammy Turner was born on June 2, 1932 in

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in 1950 he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and saw active service as a paratrooper. He was signed to Bigtop Records late in the 1950s, and his releases featured production from

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and

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. Sammy Turnerat

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. He scored several hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1959 and 1960; the biggest were " Lavender Blue", a number-three chart record on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and originally a hit for Sammy Kaye in 1949, and "Always", a number-one hit for

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in 1926.

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, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits''. 7th edn, 2000. Later in the 1960s Turner recorded for

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Singles

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