Jesse Lee Turner

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Jesse Lee Turner was an American pop singer. He recorded songs for several labels in the late 1950s, including the one-hit wonder "Little Space Girl".

Turner was born in Bowling, Texas. 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; the tune hit #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". The record was promoted poorly and sold correspondingly poorly. Moving to Sudden Records, he wrote and issued "The Elopers" to no success; GNP Records also released "Ballad of Billy Sol Estes" and a second single.

Turner's output (15 known songs) has never been reissued in a compilation, and almost nothing is known about Turner's whereabouts since his short-lived fame.