- He also collaborated with 'Nathan Korb,' a pseudonym for French composer Francis Lemarque on "The Little Shoemaker," which was originally composed as a French language song "Le petit cordonnier," by Lemarque.
- His best known writing partner was lyricist Geoffrey Parsons, who was much older than Turner, and died in 1987.
- Best known for either adapting foreign language songs by writing English lyrics, or for writing English lyrics for instrumental songs, the most famous of which is "Smile," originally composed by Sir Charles Chaplin in 1932 for Chaplin's great film Modern Times (1936) (which was a totally instrumental piece which originally had no title, as used in Chaplin's films).
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